Rishat Sultanov

DevOps Engineer

About Me

Hi! I’m Rishat, DevOps engineer who came from Software Engineering. As well as administrating systems I also have experience making software and web apps. I have worked at a number of companies gaining teamwork and leadership skills.

I am most skilled in: DevOps and Eating Pizza

DevOps Engineering projects

Seismic Safety Startup

Project Website

A scientific project focused on seismic safety in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, utilizing earthquake sensors.

I participated in a scientific research project that implemented earthquake sensors based on GlobalQuake and RaspberryShake. My responsibilities included maintaining these sensors on Linux Raspberry Pi and leveraging technologies such as Raspberry Pi, Linux ARM, and Python with Miniconda for SLA/STA calculation. The project also utilized InfluxDB to monitor and manage data from all stations in real-time. Additionally, I configured GitHub CI to deploy Golang applications to servers that were provisioned and managed with Ansible.

skhalyk.kz

Project Website

skhalyk.kz - A popular insurance service in Kazakhstan.

The project utilized microservices built with PHP (Laravel), Nuxt, and Webview, deployed on K8S using manifests. The primary objective was to assist in designing infrastructure for the DevOps team of the bank, based on their OnPremise RancherOS. The technology stack included RabbitMQ, Redis, Nginx as Load Balancer and Proxy, Nginx ingress in K8S based on RancherOS, and Dockerfiles. Additional responsibilities involved tuning PHP opcache for high load scenarios and conducting load testing.

kino.kz

Project Website

kino.kz - One of the oldest cinema listings services in Kazakhstan, Kino.kz offers tickets for movie screenings, concerts, theater performances, music festivals, sporting events, and travel tours in 27 cities across the country. The platform provides cinema tickets in 41 cities, making it one of the most prominent ticketing services in Kazakhstan.

The technology stack for the project consists of S3, PostgreSQL, K8S, Prometheus, Golang, Next.js, React, microservices based on HTTP/gRPC with Istio, Redis, Kafka, GitLab CI/CD, Harbor, and ArgoCD.

OSI.kz is a Kazakhstan digital platform for self-management of housing and communal services.

One of the latest and most interesting projects in which I took part. The technology stack consists of Linux GitLab CI/CD Nexus Docker K8S K3S HAProxy PostgreSQL with Patroni for HA, Prometheus Grafana Redis MinIO OpenStack Ansible Terraform.

portal.bazis.kz

Project Website

BAZIS-A - One of the largest construction companies in Kazakhstan, this is a procurement and tenders portal for their services.

The client chose a minimal architecture based on OnPremise virtual machines and a monolithic setup split between Nuxt and Laravel for the backend/admin panel. The tasks included deploying virtual machines on Ubuntu 22.04, configuring PostgreSQL with backups on a separate disk, setting up Redis, WebSockets, and configuring notifications via Nginx for Laravel. The project also involved setting up GitLab CI/CD pipelines using Deployer and PM2 to reduce overhead from Docker Engine on the host system. Additional responsibilities involved installing Kaspersky antivirus for OS security, setting up a proxy server for traffic filtering, and ensuring communication with the Ops team.

bankrbk.kz

Project Website

Bank RBK is a Kazakhstan retail bank. The head office is located in Alma-Ata. As of June 30, 2018, it has 10 regional branches.

The technology stack consists of Linux GitLab CI/CD MySQL Redis Ansible ElasticSearch DevSecOps.

bi.group

Project Website

BI Group is the largest investment and construction holding in Kazakhstan

The technology stack consists of Proxmox Linux GitLab CI/CD MySQL Redis Ansible Docker.

business.altel.kz

Project Website

One of the largest mobile operators in Kazakhstan TELE2/ALTEL

The technology stack consists of Linux GitLab CI/CD MySQL Redis Ansible SRE DevSecOps Docker.

m-lombard.kz

Project Website

M-Lombard is the largest network of gold pawnshops in Kazakhstan.

The technology stack consists of Linux GitLab CI/CD MySQL Redis Ansible DevSecOps.

netmorem2m.com

Project Website

Netmore M2M platform for managing devices based on M2M SIM cards

The technology stack consists of EC2 RDS CloudFormation AWS S3 VPC GitLab CI/CD

jameson.kz

Project Website

Jameson is a blended Irish whiskey produced by the Irish Distillers subsidiary of Pernod Ricard.

The technology stack consists of Linux GitLab CI/CD MySQL Redis Ansible SRE DevSecOps Docker.

halykbank.com

Project Website

A website with all the actual information for the investors of Halyk Bank

The technology stack consists of Linux GitLab CI/CD MySQL Redis Ansible SRE DevSecOps Docker.

Dom.kz is a fundamentally new real estate resource that has taken into account all interests and is ready to respond to the needs of all market participants in Kazakhstan.

One of the latest and most interesting projects in which I took part. The technology stack consists of Linux GitLab CI/CD Nexus Docker K8S K3S HAProxy PostgreSQL with Patroni for HA Prometheus Grafana Redis MinIO OpenStack Ansible Terraform.

Not all projects located here because of NDA. You can request more info about projects, just PM me, i have private list.

Experience

Software Engineer with DevOps skills

IBEC Systems

December 2019 - Present

ibecsystems.com

During this period of time i was engaged in the DevOps Engineering.

During this period of time, I met and worked with a large number of technologies: GitLab CI ArgoCD Travis CI Jenkins GItHub Actions K8S K3S Docker Swarm Minikube Proxmox Openstack VMware cloud KVM Yandex Cloud AWS GCP Oracle Cloud Prometheus Grafana Zabbix Nagios Postmortems(wiki) Status Page Terraform Ansible AWX ELK Loki Telegram Discord Jira TeamWork Trello Vault Clair Snyk JS(Vue,React) TypeScript PHP(Laravel,Yii) Java(Cuba,Spring) Golang(Fiber,Gin) IOS(Swift) Android(Kotlin)

Software Engineer

IBEC Systems

May 2017 - December 2019

ibecsystems.com

During this period of time i was engaged in the development of websites.

Times of combining studies at the institute and working with popular technologies: Golang Fiber PHP Laravel JavaScript Jquery Nuxt JS Vue JS Python Django

Education

Razzakov University

BSc Computer Science

2018 - 2021

University was founded in September 1954. It is the flagship of engineering education in Kyrgyzstan.KSTU has faculties such as: Information Technology, Power Energy, Transport and Machine Engineering, Technological.

During my time at Razzakov University I learnt most of my key skills that have I have taken through my career such as teamwork and working to tight deadlines. I thouroughly enjoyed my time as university and learnt a lot about a healthy work life balance.

IUCA University

Software Engineering

2015 - 2018

The International University of Central Asia (IUCA) is a small and friendly university, created according to an American model of higher education, and which meets the highest academic and ethical standards.

During my time at IUCA University I definitely understood that I would dedicate my life to technologies and processes that require effective communication.

A Little More About Me

Alongside my interests in networks and software engineering some of my other interests and hobbies are: