George Svachulay
Enterprise Cloud Consultant
Most of my career was spent with virtualisation and containerisation technologies in cloud environments. I approach architectural and engineering decisions from an ‘operations-first’ mindset, making sure that the right tools are picked for the right issues, so that your cloud environment delivers you value, allows straightforward maintenance and does not burden your teams (as it is meant to help).
I am vocal about cost-saving opportunities and a strong advocate against
tech-bandwagoning, as I believe, that IT was meant to help simplify and streamline
businesses and not the other way around.
I keep up-to-date with new technologies and
follow their maturity closely, to determine an optimal entry point where risk is
minimal, but business value is good. I am enthusiastic about security and privacy in all
aspects of the business and try to implement solutions that deliver the highest
protection against modern risks and vulnerabilities.
Recent engagements
Completed design of a new container platform for an application redesign project, using technologies for the requirements presented by the business. Assisted in a consulting capacity in the related development and release lifecycle re-engineering work, implementing a new CI system, version-based automated deployments, a new CD system for container configuration set management, image building and scanning through a new container registry solution and a large variety of templating solutions for release control of the containerised software.
Finished a tooling rework, where I was replacing obsolete versions of older systems, such as Jenkins 1.X, gradle and Elastic Container Registry with a portable, container native build pipeline, using Drone CI, Harbor, SonarQube and a number of other solutions on a container-native Kubernetes setup through HELM for EKS and Terraform for AWS. This helped the team increase build velocity to concurrent, instantaneous builds across the portfolio and enabled immediate threat and vulnerability scanning and reporting for all layers of the lifecycle. It also enabled the team to have full operational control over their infrastructure through code in git, thanks to Terraform.
In both Medium and Large Businesses, I’ve been helping with network, tooling and solution design projects, in some cases greenfield, in some cases legacy redesign and transformation. I’ve collected a wealth of experience from a variety of setups large companies use and I’m happy to bring that experience to smaller business in the form of on-demand consulting, to establish good operational and engineering practices.
I’ve provided consulting for ops standards and processes, in both ITIL and SCRUM / AGILE, established resilience practices for monitoring and alerting, as well as disaster recovery and BAU backup & recovery. Smaller companies generally delay this transformation phase to the point where they need to pass their first ISO27001 audit (at which point it may be too late for collecting the required evidence), and I have pre-empted this where I was asked to help.
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Contact Information
Feel free to contact me on george.svachulay@opsforge.io for any professional inquiries.
Additionally you can reach me on the following social media accounts and Github.