About Me

DevOps Engineer — Lifeworks/TELUS Health April 2022 – Present • Remote

Responsible for automating deployment and testing processes and building the infrastructure required to support them.

• Deployment automation using GitHub Actions
• AWS infrastructure provisioning with Terraform
• Datadog resources (pipelines, synthetic tests, monitors) — both manually and via Terraform
• MongoDB resources (clusters, endpoints, backup policies) via Terraform
• Ongoing maintenance and improvement of AWS resources

Key achievements:

• Reduced ECS costs by 70% through proper resource configuration
• Architected a disposable environment solution used by developers for feature development and testing

Technologies: Terraform, GitHub Actions, Docker, AWS

Platform Engineer — Metapack Group April 2019 – March 2022 • London, UK / Zielona Góra, PL

• Automated provisioning of multiple AWS resources using Terraform and Ansible — including TeamCity Server and Agents, New Relic Synthetics Minions, and others
• Infrastructure maintenance with Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Custodian
• Monitoring, alerting, and integrations — New Relic, PagerDuty (manually and via Terraform)
• Installation and configuration of New Relic Infrastructure Agent
• Built and maintained Jenkins pipelines in Groovy
• User account management across systems and services using Python, Bash, PowerShell, and SQL
• Supported developers with AWS resource automation, Jenkins pipelines, and service access issues

Technologies: Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins (CloudBees), Docker, AWS

QA Officer — Metapack Group July 2014 – March 2019 • London, UK / Zielona Góra, PL

• Implemented CI/CD using Jenkins (Docker-based)
• Automated functional tests with SoapUI, Jenkins, PowerShell, and SQL
• Automated performance tests using Gatling, Jenkins, Bash, and AWS (EC2, ECS, Redis, S3)
• Maintained automated test suites
• Implemented Testlink and integrated it with SoapUI
• Implemented a TIG stack (Telegraf, InfluxDB, Grafana) using Docker Compose for live test result monitoring

Technologies: Jenkins (CloudBees), Docker, SoapUI, Gatling, AWS, Testlink, TIG Stack

Quality Assurance Manager — Apator Rector Sp. z o.o. April 2013 – June 2014 • Zielona Góra, PL

• Coordinated and planned testing activities across the team
• Prepared test documentation — test plans and test reports
• Coordinated and estimated User Acceptance Tests with customers
• Reviewed and approved test scenarios

Technologies: Mantis, Testlink

Project Manager — Apator Rector Sp. z o.o. July 2012 – March 2013 • Zielona Góra, PL

• Prepared project plans and budgets
• Negotiated with customers and stakeholders
• Delegated and monitored task progress

Technologies: MS Project

Test Coordinator — Apator Rector Sp. z o.o. August 2011 – March 2013 • Zielona Góra, PL

• Coordinated testing activities
• Prepared test documentation — test plans and test reports
• Implemented Testlink across the team

Technologies: Testlink

Design Analysis Engineer — Apator Rector Sp. z o.o. May 2005 – June 2011 • Zielona Góra, PL

• Requirements analysis and system documentation in UML using Enterprise Architect
• Designed and executed functional tests
• Functional and non-functional testing of Web Services using SoapUI and JMeter

Key achievements:

• Implemented Mantis bug tracker across the organisation

Technologies: Mantis, SoapUI, JMeter

Education & Certifications

Management and Marketing — IT in Management University of Zielona Góra 1992 – 1997

Certifications:

• ISTQB Foundation Level