Darko Mesaroš

CEO

Seattle, Washington, United States17 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in cloud computing and DevOps.
Expert in AWS services and solutions.
Passionate about automation and sharing knowledge.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and DevOps expert with extensive experience in system administration and automation.

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Skills

Core Skills

AwsDevopsSystem AdministrationVirtualizationServer AdministrationAutomation

Other Skills

AWS DeploymentDevOps ServicesCloudFormationElasticBeanstalkECSFargateCodeDeployX-RayWindows ServerLinuxVMwareScriptingNetwork AdministrationRed Hat LinuxSolaris

About

As a Principal Developer Advocate at AWS, I leverage my 10+ years of experience in system administration, engineering, and DevOps to help customers and developers adopt and use AWS services and solutions. I am passionate about cloud computing, automation, and innovation, and I enjoy sharing my knowledge and insights through various channels, such as blogs, webinars, podcasts, and events. My core competencies include AWS, cloud, Windows, Linux, virtualization, Windows Server Services, Active Directory, VMWare, Hyper-V, File Services, Backup Solutions, SCCM, PowerShell, Bash, Citrix XenApp, Xen Server, Solaris, Veritas Storage, Chef, Ansible, Jenkins, CI/CD, and DevOps. I hold multiple certifications from Microsoft and AWS, such as MCITP, MCSA, and AWS Solutions Architect - Associate. I am also fluent in English, Serbian, and (almost) Hungarian, and I have an EU citizenship. My mission is to empower developers and customers with the best tools and practices to build and run scalable, reliable, and secure applications on the cloud. Oh yeah, I also collect old computers, software and technology!

Experience

17 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

10 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Amazon web services (aws)

6 roles

Principal Developer Advocate

Promoted

Oct 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

Senior Developer Advocate

Nov 2021 – Oct 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos

Senior Developer Advocate

Dec 2019 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr 11 mos

Specialist Solutions Architect

Promoted

Feb 2019 – Dec 2019 · 10 mos

As a Specialist Solutions Architects I strive to be an industry experts in my field, focused on providing state-of-the art solutions and practices to customers and the entire AWS field organization. From deep technical architecture to company-wide process and practice definition, I am involved in the strategic environments of AWS' most demanding customers.
The focus field is AWS Marketplace and Management tools.

Solutions Architect

Feb 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 10 mos

Cloud Support Engineer II

Feb 2016 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs

Performing premium cloud support duties for various AWS Cloud customers. These duties include, hands-off assistance, troubleshooting, consultation and architecture on AWS.
I specialize in AWS Deployment/DevOps Services:
OpsWorks/Chef Automate/Puppet Enterprise
CloudFormation
ElasticBeanstalk
ECS/Fargate
CodeDeploy/Pipeline/Build/Star
X-Ray
Service Catalog
AWS OpsWorks/Chef/Puppet/CodeDeploy subject matter expert.

AWS DeploymentDevOps ServicesCloudFormationElasticBeanstalkECSFargate+4

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Senior System Administrator

Jul 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · St. Julians, Malta

Providing design, implementation and administration support for the company IT infrastructure.
Infrastructure includes:
Windows 2008R2 and Linux based server infrastructure.
VMWare Virtualization infrastructure (VMWare 5.5)
Sophos based Firewalls
Cisco switching and routing equipment
Dell storage systems
ARP Guard network protection systems
Barracuda spam firewalls
Microsoft Exchange Email system
Avaya Phone system
Administering and improving a Windows 2008R2 forest with multiple domains across many geographic locations.
Creating automation tasks through development of scripts (PowerShell, Bash, AutoIT, Python…) and applications.
Monitoring and improving overall system performance
Performing technical analyses of software, hardware and transmission facilities using various diagnostic tools in support of efficient network operations
Controlling network resource performance to ensure high-quality transmission
Documenting of processes, installations and set-ups.
Managing multi-location DR systems
Testing and evaluating devices/software/service to be implemented into the infrastructure
Implementing new technologies and management of IT related projects.
Other services managed include: Veeam Backup system, PRTG Monitoring, ACMP Inventory/Computer management software, WDS, WSUS, Trend AVS, PGP Encryption, DriveLock,

At&t

Server Provisioning Administrator

Mar 2012 – Jul 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Brno, South Moravia, Czechia

Provide installation, configuration, and integration services and support for Windows 2003/2008, Red Hat Linux and Solaris customer hosting environments. Includes Hardware, Operating Systems, monitoring tools and applications.
Provide specialized installation and pre-production support to AT&T Hosting and Application Services client base and internal support organizations/partners within AT&T as needed for hosting products and services including: HTTP Services, Cluster technologies, Server and application security, RDBMS (SQL Server), VMware (ESX, VC, VMs), Server administration and management, and application configuration and administration.
Responsibility for coordinating and leading application and service certification/testing projects for products and services designed to grow the AT&T hosting offer. This includes testing and documentation review to ensure validity of service for provisioning and supportability.
Provide support to Operational Readiness Testing team on an as-needed for system validation and Hand-over-into-production (HOIP)
Creating applications and scripts for daily task automation and various other needs.
Active tool developer in the team

Windows ServerLinuxVMwareScriptingNetwork AdministrationSystem Administration+1

Mercator-s

System Administrator

Sep 2010 – Mar 2012 · 1 yr 6 mos · Novi Sad, Serbia

Senior Windows (2003/2008/R2) Domain Administrator. Managing 1500+ users.
Working on new infrastructure project implementations (Lync, SCCM, SCDPM, SCOM).
Automation of existing procedures and task with development of software and scripting tools with PowerShell, Bash, VBScript and C #.
Improving the current user Terminal Services/Citrix environment.
Providing On-Call readiness 24/7 for mission critical services.

Windows ServerRed Hat LinuxSolarisVMwareScriptingServer Administration+1