Martin Bruzina
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Engineering Leader and DevOps, Chyron, 2020 - present
Managing Chyron SaaS product engineering. I currently care for a small engineering team (three backend developers, two frontend developers, one tester, and one cloud ops). I tightly cooperate with the Product Manager, DevOps, and other engineering leaders for cross-product initiatives. I am responsible for people, processes, project management, and end-to-end customer delivery.
- Established SRE in the company without prior cloud or SaaS competence
- Managed and built our observability platform: Grafana, Grafana Loki, Prometheus, Alertmanager, Uptime Kuma
- Managing and building SRE GitOps - IaC (Terraform) a CaC (Ansible) automated by workflow changing static and dynamic environments in AWS (VMs, Docker, Kubernetes - AWS EKS and Argo CD)
- Implementing SRE, DevOps, and management best practices and processes
- Building the SRE team and onboarding the first products under SRE control
- Managing project of SaaS product transition from DC to AWS
- Experimenting with various tools (e.g., 360-degree feedback, asynchronous meetings)
- Building new DevOps stack based on GitOps, IaC, GitLab, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana
- Pushing forward security, DevOps, and software engineering best practices, for example: helping other Scrum masters with Scrum implementation, proposing and executing SRE strategy, or proposing Customer Issues process
- Taking over product infrastructure from the original US and Norway teams
- Migrated Chyron Weather infrastructure to AWS
- Implementing Scrum and release process in the team- Managing project of SaaS product transition from DC to AWS
- Experimenting with various tools (e.g., 360-degree feedback, asynchronous meetings)
Position associated skills
DevOps Engineer, Konica Minolta Business Solutions Czech, spol. s r.o., 2020 - 2020
DevOps & Software Development (Linux, Bash, Python, Kubernetes, Helm) on Workplace Hub.
- Developing and implementing automation tools and processes for efficient deployment and maintenance
- Architecting and deploying scalable and resilient infrastructure solutions on AWS
- Implementing security measures and best practices to safeguard data and systems on AWS
- Monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing the performance of AWS resources and applications
- Collaborating with teams to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues and incidents
Engineering Manager, SolarWinds, 2018 - 2020
Managing and leading two self-organized teams focused on Loggly SaaS product development at Scrum and Scrumban.
Achievements: Managed large scale distributed system development and QE, built 2 teams, and shifted work from firefighting mode through stabilization phase to feature delivery.
- Built two teams from scratch: hiring, onboarding, 2 teams forming
- Transferred knowledge of complex cloud application from the overseas team (San Francisco) completely to Brno
- Solved production and customer issues, product firefighting and stabilization (upgrading to supported technologies, fixed scalability issues, a transition to AWS)
Responsibilities:
- Cooperation and coordination with stakeholders
- Teams and people management and development
- Technical initiatives management, encouraging innovations
- Compelling features delivery
- Epics and user stories breakdown facilitation
- Introducing world-class engineering - focus on the implementation of industry best practices, automation, and security
- On-call as an escalate
Team Leader and Manager / SaaS Application Developer, X-Trader.cz, 2008 - 2017
Achievements: Implemented an agile approach to project management (Kanban and Scrum), significantly reduced technical debt, automated toil, completed a friendly and positive corporate culture
Responsibilities:
- Managing and leading small business unit, P&L responsibility
- Managing all phases of SaaS/cloud application life cycle
- 10-member team leadership and motivation
- Customer relationship, HR, ops & finance
Achievements: Developed e-commerce products focusing on security, reliability, and maintainability
Responsibilities:
- Requirements elicitation, analysis, and design
- Leading small team
- Development and coding - stack: PHP, MySQL, JS, CSS and HTML
- Testing, user support
- Managing Linux servers and DevOps, Bash scripting
