My name is Simon and I am
a DevOps Engineer.
I have always been really passionate for Computer Science and living a life of a DevOps
allows me to take advantage
of the whole stack of technologies ranging from networking and telecomunication, through
large scale distributed computational systems,
up to software development. I tend to have decent orientation in a variety of solutions
across previousely mentioned domains rather than specialize
in a narrow field or application. I value this approach because it allows me to be
well-rounded which is crucial in making archetectural decisions.
My goal is to become a DevOps Tech Lead - a good one. (UPDATE: Already a Tech Lead, still
working on the good one part.)
Below you can find some concepts that
I follow and I am deeply passionate about:
I tend to think of myself as a good leader that seeks a place to develop into comprehensive
one.
Eager to take advantage of opportunities and learn how to improve in this domain. Always
trying to be a good team player and being considerate and adaptive to other team members.
Love collaboration where I get to see what others perspective and widen my horizons.
Here are some of the principles that I think are crucial in being a good DevOps:
1. Everything is code
2. Develop and maintain
3. Least privilage always
4. Everything is observable
5. Automate and automate and automate...
6. Self serviced product
8. Design smart and improve
Making architectural decisions is the same as it used to be at the beggining when you worked
on the project by yourself - like a driving a car for the first time exciting to go wherever
you want.
Doing that in professional life is the same except for children in the
backseat(team members), mother in law in the front seat(manager) and the car behind you
honking(buisness unit).
Being an Information and Communication Technologies student allows to be
decently
well versed in all areas of IT whilst extending that with knowledge about
telecommucation and signals theory. Variety of topics of which this field
consists is enourmous. Some of the examples are: Networks, Cybersecurity,
Software Development, Telecommunication, Information System Design and
Administration, Data Analysis and many others. Each of areas listed divides
into
many smaller subareas in which students can get expertise by choosing his
prefered elective courses.
My time at university was the most productive period I have had so far.
Explored
many directions for personal growth. Played League of Legends
semi-profesionaly
and coached AGH's team. Started hobbies such as cycling and powerlifting.
Met
amazing people with whom I enjoy spending time with. Managed to hear
lecturers
with lifetimes of experiences. Had fun.
Was doing network administrator work for the most part of my highschool. I installed operating systems on some servers or computers in the school's library. Was responsible for organising the LAN events on the technical side of things - hosting game servers, providing failover connection etc. Generally had fun around technology.
When I was 12 years old me and a friend of mine decided to create a
Minecraft(a
pretty popular game at that time) server hosting company. At the beggining
we
would host a server off of my parents attic on which we were selling virtual
currecy, privilages etc.
Later on as we scaled we moved to Hetzner VPS and started offering private
servers for users. It was a great experience, learned a lot about software
development (mostly Java). Had a chance to interact on the frontline as a
forum
moderator and in-game administrator. It was working really great for us with
100-150 people on our servers on average during biggest hype moment for
Minecraft. This was one of the greatest journeys I have ever experienced.
This project is my first Java steps with some crazy car simulator that can move! *WOW* First GUI in my life also!
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Project for cipher coding and decoding for the Cybersecurity course at my university.
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Project for my university's Database course. A website set up using Django that is working with PostGres db.
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This is a project for a Discord bot that allows administrators to observe their servers and enforce additional rules like curse blockage or leveling fo...
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This is a project for my university course for Software Development Processes. It is a human detection in the video file based on OpenCV and TensorFlow...
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Project for my university's Object Oriented Programming course. A chess game written in Java.
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Recruitment Task for Collabera, a simple script for retrieving manufacturer of the network device from its MAC Address.
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This is a project that is a game of Tic Tac Toe working in a deamon-client setup, which is using Python library sockets with custom protocol and multip...
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Project for university course that was all about web languages and development of frontend and backend. Boring stuff :(
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