Michael Novac-Yu

ABOUT ME

Hi there! I'm Michael.

I'm a DevOps professional with over ten years of technical and consulting experience.

I was most recently a Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Lumin Digital, building modern banking applications for financial institutions. Previously, I was a Senior Cloud Engineer at ARM Insight, a big data fintech company, managing 3 PCI Level 1 certified cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Rackspace) with >35B historical and >6M hourly transactions.

Infrastructure automation, data security, and internal tooling are my passion. I love the challenge, as it allows me to help others by finding solutions to complex problems.

I'm currently dedicating my time to upskilling my general development capabilities (Golang, data structure and algorithms) and container orchestration pipelines (Docker, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, ArgoWF).

I enjoy working with others to build great things. Eating and traveling along the way makes the experience even better.

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Specialties: FinTech, PCI DSS, Big Data Security, Cloud Technologies, Infrastructure Automation & Monitoring, CI/CD Pipelines

TECHNICAL SKILLS

DevOps ⇒ Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, ArgoCD, ArgoWF, Chef, MySQL, Git

Cloud & Virtualization:
▪ AWS → EC2, EKS, Redshift, Data Pipeline, RDS, S3, Route 53, Cloudwatch
▪ GCP → GCE, GKE, App Engine, BigQuery, GCS, Stackdriver
▪ OpenStack, VMware ESXi, Vagrant

Scripting & Programming ⇒ Python, Ruby, BASH, PowerShell

Security:
▪ PCI-DSS → SIEM, IPS/IDS, WAF, FIM
▪ Technologies → Vormetric, Alert Logic, Trend Micro, OSSEC, Duo, OpenVPN

Operating Systems ⇒ RHEL, CentOS, Ubuntu, Windows Server

Databases/Filesystems ⇒ MySQL, Postgres, Redis, Gluster

Monitoring ⇒ Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic, Sensu, Nagios, Monit, Cacti, SolarWinds

Logging ⇒ Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana