Michał Lemke

About me

I will help you ship your app to flexible, cost optimized infrastructure

Looking for challanges in platform engineering DevOps model, migrations to cloud and cloud cost optimization.

Sep 2020 – Present Gdańsk / Remote

To be continued

Sep 2020 – Present Gdynia / Remote

To be continued

Oct 2019 – Sep 2020 Gdańsk / Remote

Leading team of talented DevOps Engineers
Conducting regular meetings with both whole team and individuals
Planning individual career paths and self development strategies in both soft and technical skills areas
Performing regular employee evaluations based on mutual cooperation, feedback from stakeholders and individual performance
Ownership over DevOps recruitment area as a DevOps tech representative
Active part in recruitment process (tasks evaluations, tech meetings)
Active part in building DevOps team strategy (OKRs, backlog, long term strategy) internally and within company with other leaders and managers

Apr 2019 – Sep 2020 Gdańsk / Remote

Building highly scalable and fault tolerant environments in cloud (mainly AWS, also GCP, Azure)
Advanced IaC setups with Terraform
Migrating legacy setups to cloud native container solutions (ECS, EKS, EC2 ASG setups)
Preparing secure Packer images for advanced snowflake like environments
Implementing best security first approach practices to both greenfield and existing ecosystems
Advanced CI/CD setups and pipelines (CircleCI, Gitlab, Jenkins)
Consulting and educating developers in DevOps related topics and practices on regular calendar based office hours
Speaker in internal technical conferences, webinars and meetings
Dedicated presales support with DevOps/Cloud/On premises estimations and recommendations
Active part in DevOps transformation within company (planning, consulting, documentation, Dev<->Ops handovers/cooperation)

Feb 2018 – Mar 2019 Remote

Server configuration automation - RnD, automation improvements (Ansible) Monitoring/Log Management (Sensu, ELK stack, Datadog, Logmatic, Prometheus)
Supporting many different projects at once (Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Python, Elixir, JavaScript Frameworks - Vue.js, Angular, React, Ember.js)
Managing internal infrastructures (docker, docker-compose, docker swarm)
Working with webservers (Nginx, Apache)*- Planning and setting up infrastructure with IaaC (Terraform) (AWS, Hetzner, Hetzner Cloud, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
Full CI/CD configuration (Jenkins, CircleCI)
Deployment tools (Capistrano, PM2)
Support/setup/administration of DB Engines both hosted and on-premise (MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
Support/setup/administration of additional tools both hosted and on-premise (Elasticsearch, Memcached, Redis)
Full DevOps consulting among company and clients, direct contact with clients and full collaboration with both internal and external teams
On-call duty (Pagerduty)
Working with Jira/Confluence
Working with best SRE/DevOps practices
Implementing Cloud Native solutions using modern toolset (docker, traefik, ECS & ECR)
Mentoring new teamates
Preparing technical webinars

Aug 2017 – Jan 2018 Remote

Server configuration automation - RnD, automation improvements (Ansible/Chef)
Monitoring infrastructure (Sensu)
Supporting many different projects at once (Ruby on Rails, Node.js)
Dockerizng legacy and new projects (docker, docker-compose, docker swarm)
Planning and setting up both internal and external infrastructure (Hetzner, AWS)

Feb 2013 – Sep 2019 Gdańsk

Linux system administration (Centos, RedHat, Suse Linux Enterprise)
Basic IBM AIX systems administration
Shell scripting (bash, zsh, python, sed, awk)
Systems monitoring (Nagios with Centreon Frontend, Splunk)
IBM Tivoli Productivity Center Administration
Backup strategies and backup monitoring
VMware Vsphere management
Linux High Availability (Pacemaker clusters, ucarp protocol)
JQuery development for Microsoft Sharepoint
Repository management (Git, Mercurial)
Ansible automation for *nix server environment
Support for other departments with Python development.
Responsible for load-balancing, caching and web dispatching (Nginx, HAProxy, Sap Webdispatcher, Varnish)
Application servers administration (Apache Tomcat, IBM WebSphere)
Building and implementing docker containers for various services