Head of IT & System Administrator at AndersenLab
Texas, United States
Yaroslav Masich
Council Member
Yaroslav Masich serves as an Assistant Data Center Deployment Manager and has accumulated over thirteen years of experience in system administration, information technology infrastructure management, and data center operations.
In his current capacity as Assistant Data Center Deployment Manager at Total Deployment Solutions, a role he has held since November 2025 alongside his position as Team Lead for Fiber and Copper Cable QC Technicians since May 2025, he assists in managing daily data center deployment operations. Within these concurrent roles, he coordinates technicians and team leads across multiple workstreams including cabling, quality control, and testing, while supervising cable installation, labeling, and dressing processes. He monitors progress to ensure alignment with project schedules, supports the onboarding and training of new personnel, manages resource allocation, and maintains accurate progress dashboards and daily reports.
Prior to this, Yaroslav Masich worked at AndersenLab from December 2015 to September 2023, advancing to become the Head of IT and System Administrator. In this leadership position, he managed information technology infrastructure for a distributed team, maintaining a 99.9% availability rate for critical services. He developed Python and Bash automation scripts that saved over 15 hours monthly on routine operational tasks, and led the migration of more than 500 virtual machines to a hybrid cloud environment with zero downtime. Additionally, he configured virtualization environments utilizing VMware and Hyper-V, deployed continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using Jenkins and Git to reduce deployment times by 30%, and implemented security audits alongside Zabbix monitoring systems to mitigate operational risks.
In his current capacity as Assistant Data Center Deployment Manager at Total Deployment Solutions, a role he has held since November 2025 alongside his position as Team Lead for Fiber and Copper Cable QC Technicians since May 2025, he assists in managing daily data center deployment operations. Within these concurrent roles, he coordinates technicians and team leads across multiple workstreams including cabling, quality control, and testing, while supervising cable installation, labeling, and dressing processes. He monitors progress to ensure alignment with project schedules, supports the onboarding and training of new personnel, manages resource allocation, and maintains accurate progress dashboards and daily reports.
Prior to this, Yaroslav Masich worked at AndersenLab from December 2015 to September 2023, advancing to become the Head of IT and System Administrator. In this leadership position, he managed information technology infrastructure for a distributed team, maintaining a 99.9% availability rate for critical services. He developed Python and Bash automation scripts that saved over 15 hours monthly on routine operational tasks, and led the migration of more than 500 virtual machines to a hybrid cloud environment with zero downtime. Additionally, he configured virtualization environments utilizing VMware and Hyper-V, deployed continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines using Jenkins and Git to reduce deployment times by 30%, and implemented security audits alongside Zabbix monitoring systems to mitigate operational risks.
Earlier in his career, Yaroslav Masich served as a System Administrator at Genesis from January 2012 to November 2015. In this role, he administered Linux and Windows servers, active directory frameworks, and Jira management software. He provided remote and local technical support, resolved complex hardware malfunctions, and managed corporate backup systems to maintain operational continuity across the company landscape.
Yaroslav Masich has earned professional recognition through industry credentials, including the Cisco Certified Network Associate certifications in Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials, as well as Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation, both completed in 2024. He also holds a Google Cybersecurity professional certificate. He completed his academic foundation at the National University of Food Technology, where he earned a Junior Specialist Diploma in Programming for Electronic Computing and Automated Systems.
His technical expertise encompasses networking protocols and systems such as TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, IPSec VPN, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, Wireshark, Zabbix, Prometheus, Nginx, Linux Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows Server, VMware, Docker, Proxmox, Python, Bash scripting, Jenkins, Git, Amazon Web Services EC2, and Azure.
Yaroslav Masich has earned professional recognition through industry credentials, including the Cisco Certified Network Associate certifications in Switching, Routing, and Wireless Essentials, as well as Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation, both completed in 2024. He also holds a Google Cybersecurity professional certificate. He completed his academic foundation at the National University of Food Technology, where he earned a Junior Specialist Diploma in Programming for Electronic Computing and Automated Systems.
His technical expertise encompasses networking protocols and systems such as TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, IPSec VPN, Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, Wireshark, Zabbix, Prometheus, Nginx, Linux Ubuntu, CentOS, Windows Server, VMware, Docker, Proxmox, Python, Bash scripting, Jenkins, Git, Amazon Web Services EC2, and Azure.