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Personal data
Name Nikolay Borisov Serev
Birth date 12/04/1983 - 37y
Sex male
Family status married
Contact Information
City Sofia
Province Sofia
Cell phone -
E-mail-Professional Experience
April 2019 – now
Company Seatgeek
Business Sector Ticket platform that allows users to buy and sell tickets
Position Continious integration and DevOps
Responsibilities and obligations
Build and maintain infrastructure. Main focus is building infrastructure on AWS cloud platform.
Main tools used – nomad, consul, vault, the full hashicorp stack, gitlab.
November 2016 – April 2019
Company Gotoadmins
Business Sector Devops as a service
Position Continious integration and DevOps
Responsibilities and obligations
Build and maintaining infrastructure, creating and developing CI/CD processes. Main focus is
building infrastructure on AWS cloud platform. Main tools used - kubernetes, jenkins. Various
projects most of them created from scratch. Helping software companies transitioning their
platforms to microservices and kubernetes.
March 2015 – November 2016
Company CertiVox
Business Sector Security and cryptography
Position Continious integration and DevOps
Responsibilities and obligations
Continuous integration and continuous delivery. AWS and GKE platforms and docker
containers. Creating and maintaining orchestration. Creating and devloping CI/CD system for
testing, developing and production. Openstack management. Developing product stack
infrastructure based on apache mesos. Usage of terraform for infrastructure as a code tool.
March 2014 – February 2015
Company Strypes
Business Sector Litography
Software Position Software developer
Responsibilities and obligations
Software developer and scrum master. Main project is migration from Solaris to Linux
Windriver. Creation of automation tools with Python and shell scripts. Working on continuous
integration and delivery by creating and automating staging environments.
March 2013 – January 2014
Company Comptel
Business Sector Telecommunications
Position Software engineer
Responsibilities and obligations
Part of the mediation team. Writing code in Perl, Python and Bash. Managing clusters and
administering Red Hat, HP unix and AIX.
February 2009 - May 2013
Company Comverse
Business Sector Telecommunications
Position Deployment Engineer
Responsibilities and obligations
Participate and later on lead field-related technical implementations of a Comverse leading
product in both leading telecommunication operators’ facilities in Europe and all over the world.
Working with Red Hat Enterprise and Solaris systems. Using different open source technologies
like Red Hat, Veritas cluster, using ciso switches. The position requires deep knowledge in the
following protocols - Transaction Capabilities Application
Part(TCAP/SS7/Sigtran) (GSM, Mobile Application Part - MAP); Universal Computer Protocol
(UCP); Short message peer-to-peer protocol (SMPP); Computer Interface to Message
Distribution (CIMD);
May 2007 – February 2009
Company CrediBul
Business Sector Finance and credit
Position System Administrator
Responsibilities and obligations
Management and support of the IT system environment. Responsible for monitoring the servers
and network by creating and implementing a monitoring system based on Nagios. Completed a
project for creating a customized automatic system installer based on FAI-project Maintaining a
secure mail server environment based on Postfix and integrating it with Microsoft Exchange
2007 Completing various other smaller tasks included in to the day to day activities of a system
administrator, like maintenance of VPN network, switch configuration and etc. Maintaining
more than 150 Linux and Windows based workstations and more than 20 servers.
November 2005 - May 2007
Company SiteGround.com
Business Sector Web hosting
Position technical support
Responsibilities and obligations
Main responsibility is technical support of the customers, at all levels. Answering queries and
giving support on all kinds of different by nature issues including, but not only dns issues, mail
issues, script installation, basic script and database problem solving. Monitoring the system
health and escalating issues to R&D and System administrators if it is needed. Supervising the
work of the other support staff on shift.
February 2005 - November 2005
Company Aplus.net
Business Sector Web hosting
Position technical support
Responsibilities and obligations
Providing level 2 technical support to our shared hosting customers, helping them building
websites, monitoring the servers.
Other
February 2010 – October 2011 Company New Bulgarian University Business Sector Education
Position Linux LPI instructor Responsibilities and obligations Leading and teaching LPI to
students.
Education- Profile Bank, Insurance and Social security affairs City Pazardzhik
2001 – 2005 University New Bulgarian University Degree Bachelor Profile Informatics and
informatical sciences Additional skills and knowledge
Languages English written and spoken – excellent
Certificates
Linux Professional Institute LPI-101,102,201,202 Cisco academy CCNA
Certificate
