Hayk Davtyan
Yerevan · Armenia ·
hayko5999@gmail.com
A passionate DevOps Engineer from Armenia
Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer | Observability
Picsart
Is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the monitoring and observability stack for the organization's IT infrastructure. The role involved ensuring that all critical services are running smoothly, maintaining maximum system uptime, and providing technical leadership and guidance to the team. Additionally, led the creation and maintenance of multi-stage CI/CD pipelines. As part of the systems design, defined service-level objectives (SLOs), implemented service-level indicators (SLIs) and collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve overall system performance and reliability. All processes are implemented following the GitOps concepts.
July 2022 - Present
DevOps Engineer | Observability
Picsart
Was focused on the improvement of the monitoring and alerting systems for the organization's IT infrastructure. Integrated CI/CD pipelines to automate the software delivery process. Built multiple in-house applications to automate some processes and handle specific problems that weren't easy or possible with the existing tools.
January 2022 - July 2022
Service Monitoring and Control Senior Specialist
Picsart
Continuously improved monitoring tools and processes to increase efficiency, reduce false positives, and optimize system performance. Used Python programming language to automate repetitive tasks, improve system monitoring, and increase efficiency. Maintained documentation of all monitoring systems and processes.
July 2021 - January 2022
Service Monitoring and Control Specialist
Picsart
Was responsible for setting up alerting rules and detailed monitoring for the services. The role involved integration of new tools to improve the IT monitoring and alerting systems.
July 2019 - July 2021
Education
National Polytechnic University of Armenia
Master of Engineering
Cybernetics - Automation
GPA: 2.7
Master's project was focused on the design of a control system for a drone using the Mean Squared Error method. This statistical approach involves minimizing the mean squared error between the actual drone response and the desired response specified by the control system. The project employed specific algorithms and technologies to integrate the control system with the drone and faced challenges such as ensuring robustness in different environmental conditions and stability in flight.
September 2019 - May 2021
National Polytechnic University of Armenia
Bachelor of Engineering
Cybernetics - Automation and Control
GPA: 2.7
The academic project at the university was focused on the development of a concept agricultural robot that aimed to address the challenges faced by farmers in irrigating their crops effectively. The concept of a robot was designed to autonomously move through fields, identify plants in need of watering, and apply water as necessary based on their humidity levels.
September 2013 - May 2019
Skills
Programming Languages
Workflow
- Continuous integration & delivery
- Software development automation
- Continuous monitoring
- Incident management and response
- Kanban framework / Agile
Tools ＆ Technologies
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Automation of
deployment
processes of
the new services.
Used Ansible as a
configuration
management tool
for the software's
deployed outside
of the Kubernetes
cluster
Ansible
Expert knowledge with experience
of building HA Prometheus clusters.
Adept in using PromQL functions
and query expressions.
Prometheus
Advanced knowledge and extensive
experience in building highly available,
best-performing Thanos systems with
multi-year data retention capabilities.
Through years of working with complex
Thanos systems, gained a deep understanding
of the intricacies involved in optimizing their
performance and ensuring their reliability. As
a result, is able to design and implement robust
and scalable Thanos solutions that meet the
needs of even the most demanding applications.
Thanos
Experience in creating flexible
and user-friendly dashboards by
using powerful features of Grafana.
Worked with multiple data sources
such as Prometheus, Loki, Graphite,
Elasticsearc, etc.
Grafana
N/A
Docker
N/A
Kubernetes
N/A
Helm
N/A
Terraform
N/A
GitLab CI
N/A
Git
N/A
Nginx
N/A
Elasticsearch
N/A
Redis
Cloud Computing
Open Source
Open Source Contributions
I am passionate about open-source projects, and I recognize that a thoughtful approach is necessary to understand the norms, standards, and practices unique to each community for successful contributions. You can view my contributed projects and respective PRs in the table to the right.
Personal Projects
The top OSS projects by Hayk:
✪ prometheus-api✪ alerta-web
✪ trafficlight-docker-challenge
Interests
Dramas, Success stories, Finance, Writing blog posts, Coding...
