Vladimir Masarik
DevOps Engineer at EF Education First
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolVladimir Masarik is a DevOps engineer based in Zurich with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure and developer-facing tools. He has hands-on ownership of end-to-end platforms—from standing up Kubernetes clusters, GPU nodes and autoscaling for an ML-driven precision farming product to improving developer portals like Backstage by enhancing user profile UX and session handling. His background spans industry and research, contributing to Prometheus benchmarking, OpenShift logging, and JVM-level tooling during a master's at the University of Zurich. Comfortable as a solo infrastructure owner or as part of cross-functional teams, he blends Python/Django and FastAPI service development with solid observability and performance testing practices. Notably, he has repeatedly delivered from-scratch production systems for niche domains (beehive monitoring) while contributing improvements to well-known open-source projects.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of ZurichErasmus programme, Erasmus programme at Fachhochschule Konstanz - Hochschule für Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung
English, German
Github Skills (9)
typescript10
javascript10
user-interface10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
backstage9
portal9
material-ui8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 15 commits, 7 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Vladimir primarily focused on improving the user settings page within the Backstage developer portal. Their commits modified the `ProviderSettingsItem.tsx` component, adding more profile information, including the user's avatar, display name, and email. They also addressed issues related to sign-in functionality and session state management, ensuring the correct display of user data. These changes enhance the user experience by providing more complete and accurate profile information.
portalsinfrastructureopen-platformdxbackstage
VladMasarik/deploymentExamples
Jul 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:16 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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