Gabor Pikats

Platform Engineer

Budapest, Budapest, Hungary8 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Achieved 99.9% uptime for core banking systems.
Reduced deployment time by 75% for critical applications.
Automated environment provisioning for 200+ servers.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Infrastructure Engineer with strong automation and cloud deployment expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Container OrchestrationInfrastructure AutomationCi/cd OptimizationCloud InfrastructureService Mesh AdoptionObservabilityGitops WorkflowsProcess Automation

Other Skills

BashKnowledge AcquisitionRole-Based Access Control (RBAC)CIGitOpsMicrosoft Power AppsDynatraceProduction Deployment

Experience

8 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

6 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Otp bank

3 roles

Platform Engineer

Promoted

Jan 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Container Orchestration: Collaborated with DevOps teams to implement Red Hat OpenShift, reducing deployment cycles by 30% for enterprise applications.
Infrastructure Automation: Designed Ansible playbooks to automate environment provisioning, achieving 99% consistency across 200+ servers.
CI/CD Optimization: Integrated Bitbucket and Nexus into pipelines, improving build reproducibility and deployment success rates.
Cloud Infrastructure: Deployed scalable applications on Microsoft Azure, reducing downtime through auto-scaling and load balancing.
Service Mesh Adoption: Played a key role in implementing Istio for microservices, enabling secure communication and traffic management for 50+ services.
Observability: Leveraged Elastic Stack (ELK) for log analysis and troubleshooting, resolving critical system issues 40% faster through improved visibility.
GitOps Workflows: Contributed to the team’s adoption of argoCD, ensuring GitOps practices aligned deployments with declared configurations.

Container OrchestrationInfrastructure AutomationCI/CD OptimizationCloud InfrastructureService Mesh AdoptionObservability+1

DevOps Engineer

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs

Legacy Modernization: Supported the migration of legacy systems to Red Hat OpenShift, cutting infrastructure costs by $150K annually.
Automation: Scripted repetitive tasks with Ansible, saving 500+ hours of manual effort yearly.
CI/CD Pipelines: Partnered with developers to streamline Jenkins-based workflows, reducing deployment time by 75% for critical apps.
Security Integration: Assisted in deploying Red Hat IPA for identity management, securing access to 2,000+ servers.

Process AutomationInfrastructure Automation

IT Infrastructure Engineer

Jun 2019 – Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 7 mos

High-Availability Systems: Maintained 99.9% uptime for core banking systems by optimizing failover clusters and disaster recovery processes.
Kubernetes Adoption: Supported the rollout of Red Hat OpenShift, enabling containerized workloads and reducing deployment bottlenecks by 25%.
Patch Management: Automated OS and software updates via Red Hat Satellite, ensuring compliance and reducing vulnerability exposure by 60%.
Incident Resolution: Reduced average ticket resolution time by 30% through proactive monitoring and root-cause analysis for recurring issues.

Process AutomationInfrastructure Automation

Gamesys

Network Operations Center Engineer

Apr 2018 – Mar 2019 · 11 mos · San Gwann, Malta

Platform Reliability: Achieved 99.9% uptime for a gaming platform serving 500K+ users by optimizing monitoring tools and load-balancing policies.
Incident Management: Resolved 95% of escalated network and server issues within SLA, minimizing user impact during peak traffic.
Release Support: Coordinated with QA and development teams to ensure zero-downtime deployments during 20+ software releases.

Bash

Oia services ltd

Junior IT Administrator

May 2017 – Apr 2018 · 11 mos · Sliema, Malta

End-User Support: Reduced average ticket resolution time by 25% by standardizing troubleshooting workflows for a 500+ user environment.
Disaster Recovery: Conducted monthly backups and recovery drills, slashing data-loss risks by 50% and ensuring RTO compliance.
Process Improvement: Redesigned IT onboarding workflows, cutting setup time for new hires by 40%.