Ajla Dzekovic

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

About

Beep, boop

🔭 Infrastructure Engineer at Rasa
 Live and breathe infrastructure as code
🌱 Working on CKA
🌒 Learning more about Open Source
 Love/hate relationship with programming
🔧 When I grow up I want to be a car mechanic
🐕 Have a staffy, secretly a cat

Experience

Rasa

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

2022 - Present

rasa.com
  • Infrastructure as Code in Pulumi using Python and Terraform.
  • Infrastructure provisioning and arhitecture on AWS and GCP.
  • Kubernetes cluster hardening and provisioning.
  • Implementing best practices and providing additional support to Security.
  • Implementing Ci/CD best practices with Github Actions.

Embroker

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

2021 - 2022

embroker.com
  • Migrated Embroker platform from Heroku to AWS ECS Fargate.
  • AWS architecture and planning.
  • Infrastructure as Code using Terraform.
  • Development processes and deployment workflow using Github Actions.
  • Monitoring and logging using Dynatrace and AWS Cloudwatch.

Oddity

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

2020 - 2022

odt.net
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Terragrunt.
  • Kubernetes provisioning and maintaining.
  • GitOps flow with Helm, Fluxcd and Helm Operator.
  • Monitoring and alerting with Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk and Loki.
  • CI/CD with Gitlab pipelines and Github Actions.

TradeCore

Senior DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2020

tradecore.com
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform for EKS and ECS Fargate.
  • Helm charts and Helmfile for multi-environment deployments.
  • Production monitoring and alerting using Datadog, Grafana, StatusCake and OpsGenie.
  • CI/CD with Gitlab and AWS CodePipelines.
  • Serverless Framework for Lambda

Edge Technologies

Senior DevOps Engineer

2019 - 2020

edge-technologies.com
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform for AWS.
  • Automated application packaging and deployment.
  • Implemented and maintained CI/CD pipelines (AWS CodePipeline with CodeCommit, CodeBuild and CodeDeploy)
  • Build tools and systems for internal engineering teams.

NCR Corporation

DevOps Engineer

2017 - 2019

ncr.com
  • Introduced infrastructure operations, CI/CD and automation.
  • Collaborated with team members to create systems for remote troubleshooting of Windows and Linux based machines and remote problem solving solutions.
  • Interfaced with business analysts, developers and technical support to determine requirement specifications.

NCR Corporation

Software Engineer I

2017 - 2017

ncr.com
  • C# and .NET Framework.
  • Backend wrapped around legacy Delphi code for custom made Walmart protocol.
  • Improvements in remote-troubleshooting software for SelfCheckOut and PoS machines.

Metropolitan University

Graduate Teaching Assistant

2016 - 2018

metropolitan.ac.rs
  • TA on the following classes: Operating Systems, Introduction to OOP and Distributed Systems.
  • Created assignments, proctored tests, and provided grades according to University standards.
  • Documented attendance and completed assignments to maintain full class and student records.

Metropolitan University

Software Engineer Intern

2016 - 2017

metropolitan.ac.rs
  • Developed and maintained software created for faculty employees.
  • Developed new process for employee evaluation which resulted in marked performance improvements.

Education

Metropolitan University

Bachelor Degree in Software Engineering

2014 - 2018

Passions

Nintendo Switch

Star Trek

Mechanical Keyboards