Curriculum Vitae

Name: Alex M. Schapelle Phone: +972-(0)549-877509 E-mail : Alex@vaiolabs.com Social GitLab GitHub

About Me

Digital nomad, seasoned back-end developer, DevOps & IT instructor, SysOps team-lead, hactivist for open-source, Unix based systems developer & maintainer, & open-source technologies consultant.

Main Points

• OS management: Linux, Unix/BSD & Windows.
• Development : C, GoLang.
• Scripting: Shell/Bash, Python, Ruby, JavaScript
• Cloud infrastructire: DigitalOcean, Aws, OpenStack.
• Source code & bug tracking systems: Git, Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket.
• Ticketing & task management: RTC, Jira, Mantis-BT.
• Web server configuration/management: Apache2, Nginx,
• Application server configuration/management: Tomcat.
• Database development & deployment : MS Access, Mysql, Sqlite3, Postgresql.
• Key-Value database deployment: TinyDB, RedisLab, Mongodb, Cassandra-DB.
• Automation/Provisioning: Ansible, Terraform, Vagrant.
• CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab-CI, Bamboo.
• Storage: FTP, NFS, CIFS, ISCSI, Owncloud, Glusterfs, Ceph.
• Cloud computing: OpenStack, LSF, DigitalOcean, RackSpace, Blumix.
• Linux Kernel: Modifying, customizing, module compiling.
• System monitoring : deploy/maintenance : checkMK/Nagios, Cacti, Zabbix.
• Log management: ELK stack, Logz.io, datadog.
• Networking : Cisco/WRT routing, Cisco/WRT switching, Linux DNS, DHCP, NTP.
• Virtualization : KVM, VirtualBox, Vmware, ESxi/Vsphere.
• Containerization & Orchestration: Docker, Podman/Buildah, LXC.
• Mail server: Chimpmail, Redmine, Sendmail, Postfix, Dovecot, Exim4.
• CMS: Wordpress, Wikia, Media-wiki, Ghost.
• LMS: Canvas, Moddle.
• OpenSource project/license consulting: GPLv2/v3/v4/LGPL, MIT, FreeWare & IP.

Experience

• Independent Contractor Projects:
  • 2022- Currently: Mobileye CI team, building enterprize level CI & building/maintaining custom tools for CI
  • 2021-2022: Scadafence DevOps team lead, designing & building CI/CD pipelines, IaC arch on prem & on cloud design & implementation, legacy code containerization with deployments k8s cluster
  • 2020-2021: CyberArk DevOps engineer, application deployment to cloud & on-prem architecture design & implementation
  • 2019-2020: Ora-Modaiim School, programming instructor for 12th graders
  • 2018 - 2019: CommIT: DevOps Expert on automation, CI/CD, container & development on MER group projects.
  • 2017 - 2018: Applied Material: SW QA & OS validation for high performance computing systems (HPC), with consulting on open source products & materials.
  • 2017 - 2019: ARShow : Build system deployment, source control management(git), Network systems developer.
  • 2015 - 2017 : Magentiq-eye : DevOps, IT developer & system manager.
  • 2014 - 2020: DevOps, Python, LPIC instructor at HackerU,Technion,IITC as an independent contractor.
  • 2012 - Present : VaioLabs ltd : CEO of my own company.
• Contract Jobs:
  • 2018-2019: DevOps Team ARshow: providing system automation & application auto-deploy to arm based hardware.
  • 2017-2018: DevOps Team Harman: Docker, jenkins, IBM-RTC, git, artifactory & a lot of bash, python & groovy scripting
  • 2015-2016: IT contractor at Freescale/NXP: LSF management, Server management & administration.
  • 2012-2014: DevOps at Jenovice security labs: System, Script & Automation Developer.
  • 2011-2011: Part-time DevOps at Bar-Ilan Uni. (Biotechnology Laboratory): cluster computing on AWS network, raw storage maintenance.
  • 2010-2011: Tech-support & development team at Ceragon company : providing support/consult to RnD team
  • 2008-2010: Junior Sysadmin at “CSWW” company

Education

• 2011-2017 Associates degree in Software engineering at AFEKA college. Not fulfilled.
• 2015 - RHEL cert version. (5 & 7)
• 2012-2013 WIFU Certification – Offensive security wireless pen-testing.
• 2009-2010 Red Hat Certified Engineers(RHELv5) .
• 2008-2009 Cisco certified network associate (CCNA).
• 2007-2008 PC technician CompTIA course A+ certification.
• 2004 ICT course at IDF (Information & Communication Technologies).

Hobbies

• Cooking: mostly caucasian dishes with some italian flavor & barbecue.
• Learning: technology & general history of the world.
• Dancing: salsa on weekends or whenever I am in mood.
• Socializing: love to talk with people about ‘self & others’, philosophy & history.
• War-Hammer 40K: not for mere mortals

Languages:

• Hebrew: a high-level reading, writing & speaking.
• English: a native level reading, writing & speaking
• Russian: a native bilingual
• Georgian: a native bilingual
• Japanese: Limited working proficiency