Personal information

Name Tamas Dravavolgyi

Phone +44 (0) 7849 298629
E-mail tdravavolgyi@unseen.is
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdravavolgyi

Profile

Technology enthusiast with academic background in Computer Sciences and excellent

communication skills in English seeking for an interesting and challenging Linux Engineer/Specialist or
DevOps position.
Over 7 years of system administration and 2 years of test engineer experience on commercial
Linux/UNIX and Windows servers.

Education

BSc., Software Engineer – University of Szeged 2006-2010

Trainings, certificates

Red Hat Certified Engineer /

150-094-621 22 June 2018
RHCE
Red Hat Certified System
150-094-621 17 July 2015
Administrator / RHCSA

Employment history

Nov 2019 – European Court of Justice

Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Linux Engineer Contract job, ends: 03/2020

Main responsibilities:

 System migration: Unix to Linux (apps, shares)

 Automate BAU task with Ansible
 Patch management with SpaceWalk (open source version of Red Hat Satellite)
 Managing existing Solaris systems (NFS, Samba, zones)

Oct 2018 – Nov 2019 Graphcore

Bristol, UK
Linux Engineer

Main responsibilities:

 - Introducing Linux developer environment built from scratch

 - Building systems for Identity/Policy/Audit with Windows integration
 - Building systems for server vitualization (libvirt/kvm, oVirt)
 - 3rd line support: sge, infrastructure servers, ZFS filers, config management & monitoring

Achievements:

 Higher productivity among software engineers by providing Linux laptops (as opposed to Mac)

Aug 2015 – Sep 2018 Pay360 by Capita (formerly PayPoint.net)

Bath, UK
Linux System Engineer

Main responsibilities:

 Monitor, support, operate and automate payment platforms and infrastructure (databases,
network, server hardware) in PCI DSS compliant environment for high-availabillity services
(mostly Jboss and Tomcat based) on RHEL 5/6/7 platforms
  Perform releases to the production and pre-production environments
 System optimization
 Configuration and deployment management (puppet, cobbler)

Achievements:

 Built resilient services with failover capabilities

 Created a log-retention solution with strong end-to-end guarantee
 Database backup solution

Nov 2014 – May 2015 Ericsson Broadcast and Media Services

London, UK

Broadcast Engineer / Systems Administrator

Main responsibilities:

 Handling incoming incidents 24/7/365 via phone to internal and external customers
 Managing helpdesk, triaging and escalating and keeping clients up-to-date
 Taking ownership of customer calls and seeing it through closure as per SLA
 Monitoring and troubleshooting systems through Nagios – Storage servers, Cordys, databases,
Ardome, etc
 Working mostly with RHEL, CentOS on storage servers; Quantum StorNext
 Working with senior management and internal department teams to ensure that IT systems are
designed and built to adequately support the business processes

Achievements:

 Improved various internal processes

Jun 2014 – Nov 2014 Celoxica Ltd.

London, UK
QA / Support Engineer

Main responsibilities:

 Managing Jenkins; test automation, creating test cases, building packages (integration)
 Building UAT environment (kvm)
 Creating backup solutions for archiving versions for the company’s product
 Providing technical support for the clients

Sep 2012 – Jun 2014 Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Bristol, UK
Solutions Test Engineer

Main responsibilities in the Agile environment:

 SAS interface testing/QA on next generation HP LTO6 tape drive with advanced features
 SAS interface testing/QA on next generation 12G HP SmartArray cards
 Failover driver testing on MSL/ESL G3 tape library for HP-UX and Linux (FC)
 Test automation
 Documentation

Achievement:

* Delivered solutions on time

* Efficient handled issue management
* Fully automated test process development
* Gained good understanding of SAS/FC protocols
* Received Award of Excellence (company recognition)

Projects:

 6th Generation HP LTO SAS interface and core testing;

- Qualifying the product on several platform for several architectures
 - Exploratory testing a brand new feature introduced in the product (E2E LBP, back ported
to LTO5), documentation and made research to contribute for a white paper
 12G SAS HP SmartArray controller interface testing;
- Qualifying the new controller for HP LTO support with different ISVs
- Managed to host competitors (JDSU, LeCroy) for 12G SAS test instrument purchase
 Failover driver testing for MSL/ESL G3 tape library
- Linux/HP-UX test development, fully automated process written in bash, Perl and C

Sep 2008 – Oct 2010 GLB Ltd.

Szeged, Hungary

On-site support engineer

Main responsibilities:

* 1st/2nd/3rd line support to clients on-site at multiple premises

* Infrastructure, server and client management/support (Linux, Windows)
* Increase high availability for critical systems

Projects and achievements:

 Infrastructure development
- Built system monitoring of 5 servers and 20 clients and several network devices for
troubleshooting, fast response to issues and performance tuning
- Created backup strategy project including archive and hot swap/spare management
- UPS installations project on both industrial and office sites which increased the
availability of critical servers
 In-house application development for the warehouse stock

IT Skills

Software languages Databases

 C – 2 years academic  MySQL - 3 years + academic

 C++ - 6 months academic
 Java – 1 year academic Test tools
 Bash – 7 years + academic
 Python – Hobby  Jenkins – 1 year
 JIRA, QuiX, HP ALM – 3, 2 & 2 years

Operating systems Backup applications

 HP-UX – 1 year  ARCServe - 2 years

 AIX – 2 months  Norton NetBackup - 2 years
 Linux – 7 years RHEL (and derivatives),  Networker - 2 years
18 years Debian  HP Dara Protector - 2 years
 Windows Server 2003/2008/2012 – 3/1/1  Commvault - 2 years
year
 OSX basic user – 1 year

Development methodologies

 Agile – 5 years

Language skills

English – fluent
Hungarian – native

Personal interests

Slacklining, hobby electronics, python programming, bouldering, reading

References

Available on request.