Curriculum vitae
Volodymyr Fesko
IT engineer and solutions architect, in IT since 2005, from Windows servers to Kubernetes clusters. Since 2013 at Smile Ukraine, where I build and lead the DevOps team and set the standards for web applications, CI/CD and infrastructure.
Experience
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– Present
DevOps Team Lead / CTO
Smile Ukraine · Kyiv
- Built and led the internal IT/DevOps team of 10+.
- Set the standards for web applications, CI/CD and infrastructure.
- Proofs of concept, performance and security audits.
- Run the internal OpenNebula data centre.
- Migrations: SVN to GitLab, Fabric to modern CI/CD, pfSense to RouterOS.
- Trainings on Magento 2, DevOps, HTTP and the OWASP Top 10.
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PHP/Magento Developer
Smile Ukraine · Kyiv
- Magento 1 eCommerce projects.
- Data import and export, optimisation, integrations.
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System Administrator
Knauf Gips Donbass · Soledar
- Servers and the intranet.
- Data automation in C# and Delphi, backups.
- A PHP help desk.
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IT Engineer
Bakhmut Transport Infrastructure College · Bakhmut
- Restructured the college’s IT and managed its system administrators.
- Taught the fundamentals of computer science and electrical engineering.
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IT Technician / System Administrator
Bakhmut Transport Infrastructure College · Bakhmut
Certifications
Skills
Infrastructure
Linux, Docker, Kubernetes/k3s, Terraform, Ansible, Prometheus, Grafana, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions; AWS, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, OVH.
Applications
PHP, Magento, Laravel, Symfony, Nginx, Varnish, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch.
Networking
MikroTik, Ubiquiti, routing, firewalls, WireGuard.
Education
Master, IT Infrastructure Design
Donbass State Engineering Academy · 2009–2010
Bachelor
Donbass State Engineering Academy · 2005–2009
Junior Bachelor, Computer Systems and Networks Maintenance
Bakhmut Transport Infrastructure College · 2001–2005
Languages & teaching
Ukrainian: native · English: C1 · French: basic
Fundamentals of the World Wide Web and HTTP
Udemy course, in Ukrainian, 2023