Petr Drastil
DevOps Technical Lead at Freelancer
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolPetr Drastil is a DevOps Technical Lead with a decade of experience designing and delivering IaaS and PaaS solutions across cloud and Kubernetes platforms. He has led large, compliance-sensitive projects—replacing Azure Databricks with a bespoke multi-cloud Kubernetes Spark platform at Walmart—and helped major enterprises adopt Argo CD, OpenShift and modern observability stacks. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and consultant, he blends hands-on skills in Terraform, EKS/OpenShift, Helm and CI/CD with security-aware practices (Vault, Prometheus, Grafana) and has contributed to the Argo CD Helm charts to improve documentation and container security contexts. A former senior software engineer with deep .NET and automation roots, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to platform architecture and operationalizing complex workloads. Based in Prague, he routinely works remotely for global clients including Fiserv, Deutsche Börse and Thales.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Graphics and Multimedia, Master's degree, Computer Graphics and Multimedia at Brno University of Technology
English, Czech
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
trading-algorithms10
cicd10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
dotnet-core10
githubaction-workflow10
csharp10
algorithmic-trading10
trading9
algorithm9
python9
finance9
documentation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj/argo-helm
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
ArgoProj Helm Charts
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:304 reviews, 155 commits, 256 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Petr primarily contributed to the documentation and configuration of the Argo CD Helm chart. They updated the README files, added documentation for various ingress setups and configurations, and improved changelog information. Additionally, they addressed security concerns by setting container security contexts, and bumped GitHub actions versions, improving the overall maintainability and security of the chart.
chartshelmhelm-chartsargoprojkubernetes
QuantConnect/Lean
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine by QuantConnect (Python, C#)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 12 PRs, 8 comments in 5 days
Contributions summary:Petr made several contributions focused on improving the `Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine`. They updated the Quandl API integration, adding error handling and migrating to V3. Further, the user modified brokerage transaction handling logic, including order quantity adjustments and ensuring that zero-quantity orders are handled correctly. Also, the user made changes to test-related files.
algorithmic-trading-enginepythonpinescriptbacktesting-trading-strategiesc-sharp
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