Dusan Cosic
Date of birth:-.
Address: Dimitrija Tucovica 154/6, 11000 Belgrade
Mobile: -
E-mail:-Skype: dule.cosic
DevOps Technical Lead
Profile
Proven track record in the creation and maintenance of ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) and DevOps environments for both Waterfall and Agile based developments.
For “cloud first” approach based project working as DevOps/Cloud Engineer. In favor of AWS for large projects, but have experience with Azure (TFS/VSTS on-prem resources mostly) and GCP for projects of modest resource scope (VM, Pub/Sub, Storage,...) for startups and Small/Middle companies. Provisioning with terraform workstation and cloud. For orchestration kubernetes and ArgoCD for GitOps.
Experience in on-premise setup of services (www, mail, FileShare, Applications, …), middleware (AD, RDBMS), infrastructure (Windows, Unix, Linus (OS) / Cisco (network)) and OS virtualization (VmWare, KVM).
One year experience as a game developer in C/C++.
Working experience
Date: July 2022 - present
Title: CTO, Co-Founder at LHO Group and DevOps Professional (DevOps, Product Discovery, Digital Transformation)
Company: LHO Group D.O.O Belgrade
April 2023. - present
I am working as Lead DevOps Engineer on project related to Sport Betting UK based company.
Tools:
Terraform
AWS (EKS, MSK, S3, IAM, KMS, RDS, Aurora, Secrets Manager, Route53, CloudFront, Lambda, AWS VPN)
Kong
LinkerD
ArgoCD
CloudFlare
SysDig
Prometheus, Grafana
Atlassian Cloud (Jire, Confluence, Bitbucket),
JumpCloud
July 2022. - April 2023.
As a 3rd party contractor I work on DBT (Digital Business Transformation) project for the world's largest tire and rubber company.
Tools:
Azure DevOps
Terraform
AWS (Glue, Debezium, DMS, MSK, S3, IAM, KMS, RDS, Aurora, Redshift)
MuleSoft AnyPoint Platform
Date: February 2021 - June 2022
Title: DevOps Technical Lead Engineer
Company: HTEC D.O.O. Belgrade
February 2022. - June 2022.
Work on AI/ML/DL project for L5 (fully autonomous) vehicle manufacturing company. As DevOps I am part of many projects that leverage HPC infrastructure on-prem and on AWS.
Tools:
Slurm
Ansible
Packer
AWS ECS/ECR
AWS HPC (AWS Batch, AWS ParallelCluster)
November 2021. - January 2022.
Working on an IoT project for a medical services company that provides software for Assisted Living communities.
Tools:
Messaging: RabbitMQ, Kafka, Google Pub/Sub
MQTT: Mosquitto, HiveMQ
DocumentDB: Mongo
Infra: GCP
July 2021. - October 2021.
Working as 3rd party on DevOps project for a client that is leading producer of Semiconductor Materials Lithography printing and measurement machines. Project is related to migration from legacy (ClearCase and ClearQuest) environments to Agile based (GitHub) on cloud infrastructure that provisions over Terraform (Azure, GCP).
February 2021. - July 2021.
Working on an e-commerce project as part of the DevOps team. Project is Agile (Scrum) based on Jira/Confluence/Slack tools for collaboration. As part of DevOps team activities include development, implementations and maintenance based on below tools:
IAC: Terraform Cloud
Cloud: AWS, EKS, MSK (Kafka), SNS, SQS, SES, CM, IAM, S3, Cognito, RDS (MySQL, PostgreSQL(Aurora)), AWS ElasticCache (Redis), Route53, WAF, CloudFront, ElasticSearch, Pimcore DAM
Service Mesh: Istio
CI/CD: GitHub actions, ArgoCD
Git: GitHub
Monitoring: Fluentd, Prometeus, Grafana, Sumologic
Tracing: Zipkin, Jaeger, Kiali
Feature Flaging: Optimizely
Date: October 2012 – January 2021.
Title: DevOps Technical Lead Engineer
Company: Avisto Eastern Europe d.o.o. Belgrade
December 2020. - January 2021..
I was working on migration activities from legacy SDE (Rational tools based) to GitLab. As part of these activities we were creating Git/GitLab online tutorials as part of tools industrialization.
Tools :
GitLab,
Active Presenter,
January 2018. – November 2020.
As part of Schneider-Electric I was involved on various projects that were inluding migration of projects that were using ClearCase (SCM), ClearQuest (CRM) and Jenkins (CI/CD) to Microsoft Azure DevOps (ex. Microsoft TFS/VSTS) using Azure Repos (SCM), Azure Boards (CRM) and Azure Pipelines (CI/CD). Production environment was on-prem Microsoft TFS and from 2019. Azure DevOps Servers, while test environments were provisioned over Terraform and Azure ARM.
Tools :
Azure DevOps,
Terraform,
Azure ARM,
Jenkins,
ClearCase (UCM),
ClearQuest
November 2015. – December 2017.
As a part of Schneider-Electric IPO DevOps team (ex. ALM team) I was responsible for administrating DevOps Ecosystems based on legacy processes management IBM Rational RUP (Rational Unified Process model and tools supporting this like ClearCase, ClearQuest, RequisitePro...) as well as new DevOps (Agile Infrastructure) efforts based on Jenkins, GitHub (GitOps), Docker, Helm, Draft and Kubernetes.
Tools :
ClearCase (UCM),
ClearQuest,
RequisitePro,
Jenkins,
GitHub,
Kubernetes,
Helm
October 2012-November 2015:
MTS (ALM) team for Alcatel-Lucent (Nokia) WCDMA/LTE SDE support team:
I was member of MTS (Methods and Tools Support) administrators in Alcatel-Lucent. In those days, my daily duties were solving tickets on ACOS (Alcatel-Lucent Community of Support) ticketing system on the following tool trackers: ClearCase (Base, UCM), Hudson/Jenkins, Internal ALU tools (Wisdom, CDIForm, Dolphins, Sacred, UTS, Crau). In addition to that I was also involved in general troubleshooting issues regarding basic service like naming services (NIS, Active Directory, LDAP), distributed file system services (Samba, NFS, DFS), mailing services sendmail / postfix and www service (apache).
Date: May 2012 – September 2012
Title: Senior Linux System Administrator
Company: Wireless Media d.o.o. Belgrade
I was member of the team of Linux and windows administrators who were developing and maintaining www platforms. I was responsible for all L1 and L2 Linux servers administration. Daily tasks involved maintaining of web services (apache, tomcat, nginx), Linux loadbalancers, MySQL /MySQL cluster databases, mailing systems (sendmail, postfix, dovecot), SCCM (SVN, Eclipse, Visual Studio, XAMP), networking (LAN/WAN).
Date: November 2002 – May 2012
Title: Senior System/Network Engineer
Company: Velefarm A.D. Holding company
I lead a team of system engineers who were responsible in installing and maintaining various operating system (Solaris, SCO UnixWare, Red Hat Enterprise Server, SUSE Enterprise server, Windows 2003 Standard/Enterprise Edition servers - File Servers, Print servers, Active Directory which run on IBM xSeries servers, HP Proliant servers and FAStT600 SAN storages). I was also responsible for network administration (LAN/WAN) of Cisco, Allied Telecyne and Planet switches, routers, print servers and terminal servers. Base maintenance of line and serial printers (TallyGenicom, Epson, Fujitcu) and laser printers (HP, Canon and Lexmark). Basic Oracle DB administration of finance applications that run on Oracle RAC (IBM x3650 series nodes and IBM FAStT600 SAN Storage). Web site and mailing system for velefarm.co.rs and sanitarija.co.rs developer.
Date: October 2001 – October 2002
Title: Junior C/C++ Game Developer
Company: Nemosoft D.O.O. Belgrade
Reporting to the technical director in France, I was responsible for implementing specific game rules in C++ in the context of a generic car game engine, and development of this engine (menu interface system and scenario system). Games were Taxi 3 (for the movie), Cars’n girls and Trackdown.
Date: December 1999- October 2001
Title: Junior System Engineer
Company: Grmec A.D. Holding company
Systems administration of Unix and Windows operating systems and WAN (x25) and LAN (BNC and Ethernet) network. I was in team of warehouse database developers as a support for maintaining production lines machinery. Database was in Access and all the technical drawings of production line machinery I draw in AutoCAD.
Skills
Cloud providers:AWS, Azure, GCP
Host based virtualisation :VmWare (Workstation, Server, ESX), Xen, KVM.
Container based virtualisation :chroot, vzlinux, OpenVZ, Solaris Zones, Docker
Container orcherstration :Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Mesosphere, Docker Swarm
Service meshes :Istio
Messaging :Kafka (AWS MSK), RabbitMQ,
MQTT (IoT) messaging :HiveMQ, Mosquitto
ETL :Spark (AWS Glue), Debezium, AWS DMS
Provisioning :Ansible, Terraform,
Configuration :Cfengine, Puppet, Chef
Version control systems : CVS, SVN, ClearCase (Base, UCM)
CI/CD :Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, Concoure, ArgoCD
Issue tracking :ClearQuest, Jira, Azure Boards.
Operating systems :Windows (workstations/servers), Linux (redhat, centos, lyncase, suse, debian/ubuntu), UNIX (Solaris, SCO Unix)
Firewals :iptables, Microsoft ISA, Cisco IOS ACL/Vlans
LoadBalancers :HA Proxy, nginx, envoy
IDE:Microsoft Visual Studio, Eclipse, InteliJ, VSCode
WWW:apache, tomcat, nginx
Mail:sendmail, qmail, postfix,dovecot
Programming skills :Visual Basic, VBA, C, C++, sh, ksh, bash, awk, Perl, PHP, Python
RDBMS:Oracle, MySQL (MyISAM, Innodb, ndb (cluster)), MS SQL, Postgres
CPU platforms:x86, x86_64, ia64, sparc
Servers (Hardware):IBM xSeries, HP ProLiant series, Dell Rx/Tx servers, Fujitsu Primergy Rx/Tx
Storages (Hardware):IBM, EMC
Network:Cisco, AliedTelecyne, Planet, D-link, Perle, Moxa, tallygenicom
CAD tools :AutoCAD
Office tools:Miscrosoft Office (Excell, Access VBA advanced scripting), OpenOffice (Write, Draw, Calc - basic usage)
Foreign languages:English – fluent
Degree
- – Master of Science on Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade.
Certificates
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
Agile Humans CI/CD with Azure DevOps certificate
Cisco CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional)
Cisco CCNA (|Cisco Certified Network Associate)
Professional Training
2020
Agile Humans
Continuous Delivery with Microsoft Azure DevOps
2017
PwC’s Academy
Leadership and Team Development / Goal Settings
Communication / Employee Motivation
2010
Cisco Network Academy
CCNP
CCNA
2003/2004
Oracle university courses
Introduction to Oracle 9i: SQL
Oracle database fundamentals I
Oracle database fundamentals II
2001
Microsoft official courses (Comput school « CET » Belgrade)
723 Visual Basic 6.0
474 Access 2002
2001
Institute of nuclear science “Vinca”
C++ programming language
Visual C++ (MFC).