Staff DevOps Engineer at Grid Dynamics
California, United States
Ivan Basiuk
Council Member
Ivan Basiuk is a Staff DevOps Engineer with over 15 years of comprehensive IT experience, specializing in DevOps engineering, build automation, and configuration management across media and scientific sectors. Based in San Ramon, California, he has spent the last decade focused exclusively on DevOps practices after beginning his career as a System Administrator.
Currently serving as Staff DevOps Engineer at Grid Dynamics since June 2022, Basiuk has automated application deployments across multi-cloud environments using various CI/CD systems and successfully implemented GitOps deployment strategies for Kubernetes environments. He developed a sophisticated distributed tracing monitoring system utilizing Jaeger and Sentry for troubleshooting complex distributed systems, while also deploying and optimizing Trino and Superset for enhanced interaction with Hadoop and HDFS in Big Data analytics. His role encompasses day-to-day production support and troubleshooting of microservices operating in high-load environments.
Prior to his current position, Basiuk worked as Senior DevOps Engineer at Zoral Inc. from December 2021 to May 2022, where he implemented comprehensive DevSecOps pipelines in AWS cloud infrastructure for critical applications while maintaining strict ISO 27001 compliance standards. During his tenure at GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group company, from November 2020 to December 2021, he orchestrated the migration of various applications from bare metal infrastructure to AWS cloud using Terraform Infrastructure as Code approaches. He maintained extensive AWS cloud infrastructure including EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, S3, AWS Lambda, and Athena, while developing a continuous applications monitoring system based on Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
At Softserve from December 2019 to November 2020, Basiuk developed a custom Golang OpenShift operator to automate the creation, configuration, and management of instances in Kubernetes environments. He maintained Google Cloud Platform infrastructure using Terraform and Google Cloud SDK while creating custom Grafana dashboards for comprehensive application monitoring and alerting. His role as Systems Engineer at Epam Systems from May 2018 to December 2019 involved creating Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for JavaScript, Python, and Java applications across multicloud environments and implementing Istio Service Mesh in distributed Kubernetes clusters.
Currently serving as Staff DevOps Engineer at Grid Dynamics since June 2022, Basiuk has automated application deployments across multi-cloud environments using various CI/CD systems and successfully implemented GitOps deployment strategies for Kubernetes environments. He developed a sophisticated distributed tracing monitoring system utilizing Jaeger and Sentry for troubleshooting complex distributed systems, while also deploying and optimizing Trino and Superset for enhanced interaction with Hadoop and HDFS in Big Data analytics. His role encompasses day-to-day production support and troubleshooting of microservices operating in high-load environments.
Prior to his current position, Basiuk worked as Senior DevOps Engineer at Zoral Inc. from December 2021 to May 2022, where he implemented comprehensive DevSecOps pipelines in AWS cloud infrastructure for critical applications while maintaining strict ISO 27001 compliance standards. During his tenure at GlobalLogic, a Hitachi Group company, from November 2020 to December 2021, he orchestrated the migration of various applications from bare metal infrastructure to AWS cloud using Terraform Infrastructure as Code approaches. He maintained extensive AWS cloud infrastructure including EC2, EKS, DynamoDB, S3, AWS Lambda, and Athena, while developing a continuous applications monitoring system based on Grafana, Prometheus, and Loki.
At Softserve from December 2019 to November 2020, Basiuk developed a custom Golang OpenShift operator to automate the creation, configuration, and management of instances in Kubernetes environments. He maintained Google Cloud Platform infrastructure using Terraform and Google Cloud SDK while creating custom Grafana dashboards for comprehensive application monitoring and alerting. His role as Systems Engineer at Epam Systems from May 2018 to December 2019 involved creating Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for JavaScript, Python, and Java applications across multicloud environments and implementing Istio Service Mesh in distributed Kubernetes clusters.
Beginning his DevOps journey at Teamdev from December 2016 to May 2018, Basiuk developed cloud utilities using AWS SDK and Boto3 for custom EC2 instance tagging and database backup operations, while creating various Bash scripts to support CI/CD pipeline deployments.
Ivan Basiuk pursued doctoral studies in Computer Science at National Aviation University in Kyiv, Ukraine, completing coursework from October 2015 to May 2018, and holds a Master's Degree in Cybersecurity from State University of Telecommunications in Kyiv, completed between September 2008 and January 2015.
His technical expertise encompasses programming languages including Python with AWS Boto3, Golang, Bash, YAML, and JSON, along with comprehensive experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and TeamCity, cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, and custom cloud solutions, Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, and AWS CloudFormation, microservices technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift, Istio, and Vagrant, Big Data platforms including Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Hadoop, and HDFS, monitoring solutions including Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Sentry, Jaeger, Datadog, and ELK Stack, web servers including Nginx, Apache Tomcat, and Apache2, databases including PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB, and AWS Aurora, and platforms including Linux/Unix, macOS, and Windows environments.
Ivan Basiuk pursued doctoral studies in Computer Science at National Aviation University in Kyiv, Ukraine, completing coursework from October 2015 to May 2018, and holds a Master's Degree in Cybersecurity from State University of Telecommunications in Kyiv, completed between September 2008 and January 2015.
His technical expertise encompasses programming languages including Python with AWS Boto3, Golang, Bash, YAML, and JSON, along with comprehensive experience in CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, and TeamCity, cloud platforms including AWS, GCP, DigitalOcean, and custom cloud solutions, Infrastructure as Code tools including Terraform, Ansible, Pulumi, and AWS CloudFormation, microservices technologies including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift, Istio, and Vagrant, Big Data platforms including Kafka, RabbitMQ, Apache Spark, Apache Iceberg, Hadoop, and HDFS, monitoring solutions including Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Sentry, Jaeger, Datadog, and ELK Stack, web servers including Nginx, Apache Tomcat, and Apache2, databases including PostgreSQL, Cassandra, MySQL, MongoDB, and AWS Aurora, and platforms including Linux/Unix, macOS, and Windows environments.