Hi everyone!
I am Pavel, a DevOps Engineer in a London-based company. Currently, I am collecting my case to apply for GTV as an Exceptional Promise.
Could you please review my evidences? Any comments are welcome, thank you in advance!
Letters of reference:
- CEO of my company.
- CEO of a London-based startup which I am consulting in terms of infrastructure as external advisor, former Product Manager in my company.
- Founder of a large international blockchain startup, knows my work really well, former CPO in my company.
Main Criteria:
- I planned and implemented from scratch the complete cloud infrastructure for the LoR2 startup.
Proofs:
- Linked to LoR2
- Screenshots from startup’s GitHub with my commits
- Screeshots from startup’s notion with my infra planning
- Screenshots from corporate orchestration resource reflecting deployed environments
- Screenshot of the latest invoice from the cloud provider to show that the infra is cheap (that was a task - to develop a price efficient infra)
- Screenshot from Grafana to show almost 100% availability of all resources by latency: we agreed that 25 sec per request = 0% availability, so I created the time series dashboard - to prove that infra is efficient and addresses startup’s needs
- Participation in the Expert Panel at the leading IT university of Russia - to assess graduation business cases of BSc and MSc graduates.
Proofs:
- Panel plan with my name
- My evaluation table for graduation projects
- Acknowledgement letter from the dean of the university department which held this Panel
- My company: I owned the project for cloud infra price reduction. As a result, I reduced the overall infra pricing by 25% without any effect for reliability.
Proofs:
- My action plan in the corporate Confluence
- Screenshots of related commits in GitHub
- Screenshot from the cloud provider billing to show gradual decrease in payments
Optional Criterion 2 (out-of-work non-paid activities):
- Large node deployment project for one of the biggest blockchain foundations: I have the most popular and acknowledged repo containing the validator setup
Proofs:
- Screenshots from GitHub (stars, forks, issues, etc)
- Acknowledgement letter from the Foundation highlighting my contribution
- Articles on Hackernoon and victory in the writing contest
Proofs:
- Screenshots of top-2 articles highlighting total 26 days of reading time and 17k reads
- Screenshot of one article being featured on the HN Daily Tech Beat
- Screenshot of the writing contest results announcement highlighting my article taking the second place
- Screenshot of e-mail from HN representative congratulating me
- YouTube podcast (interview) about my career, 5k views
Proofs:
- YouTube screenshot
- Instagram promo reel screenshot
- LinkedIn post screenshot
Optional Criterion 3 (achievements in my product-led company, I am the only owner for all three):
- Company-level Terraform automation project
Proofs:
- Linked with LoR1
- Screenshots from corporate confluence with my design docs and action plans
- Screenshots from GitHub with my commits
- Service management automation project (also company-level)
Proofs:
- Linked with LoR1
- Screenshots from corporate Confluence with my design docs and action plans
- Screenshots from GitHub with my commits
- Corporate documentation (public and non-public)
Proofs:
- Linked with LoR’s 1 and 3
- Screenshot of public docs frontend
- Screenshots from GitHub highlighting my commits
- Screenshot of non-public docs in Confluence
- Screenshots of my design docs and user journeys for non-public docs