Hi, I'mPeter Bacsai

I am a Senior DevOps Engineer with experience in operating one of the world's largest customer engagement platforms at Emarsys by SAP. My primary responsibility is to build cloud infrastructure on Google cloud platform using Terraform. I also worked with a range of technologies, including Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Consul, Traefik, GitLabs, Haproxy, Puppet, Hashicorp Vault, Thanos, Prometheus, Grafana, Alermanager, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Logstash, and more in my current role.

In addition to my technical expertise, I have experience working in a large-scale system environment, such as delivering over 1.72 billion emails during Black Friday for our customers and over 4.5 billion emails between Black Friday and Cyber Monday. I am well-versed in Infrastructure as Code and have implemented GitOps using ArgoCD to deploy applications to the cloud. I also known as a seasoned professional who is highly skilled in managing complex cloud infrastructure environments and have a strong understanding of security and compliance best practices.

I have participated in a security competition organized by SAP and outperformed over 2500 participants to reach the 6th position, which demonstrates that I am able to work effectively under pressure and can deliver results that stand out in a competitive environment and my ability to perform at a high level in this field.

Set up and maintain 53 Petaflops Deep-Learning cluster consists of NVIDIA DGX and DGX2 machines On-Premises with AWS scalability options. The whole system built with Infrastructure as code mindset. Improved the SLA from 80% to 99.95% up-time, response time reduced from 8 hours to 30 minutes, during the first production year.

In terms of release automation, I have used Kubernetes, S3 storage (Minio), Jenkins, Gitlabs, and Ansible to streamline the process. Additionally, I have developed a Python-based management report system that delivers useful information to higher management, and this has been used to facilitate demand management decisions. My ability to apply JIRA and Agile ceremonies has also helped to improve productivity in the projects I have worked on.

I have a wealth of experience as a Chief Technology Officer, with a focus on leading teams and achieving impressive results. In this role, I led a development and engineering team of 7 direct subordinates and achieved the most reliable Automatic Number Plate Recognition system worldwide with Abertis Autopistas in Barcelona. This system achieved a TÜV audited 99.995% vehicle detection rate, demonstrating my technical expertise and ability to deliver exceptional results.

During my years with the company, I improved the efficiency of the team by 30% using Agile methodology. Additionally, I reduced development costs by 60% in two consecutive years not to mention that I was able to shorten the delivery time of software products to 50% of the original timeline, demonstrating my ability to optimize the development process and deliver results quickly.

Responsible for 12M EUR revenue, improved client satisfaction by understanding the project needs and improved communication. Managing a team of 4 Sales Managers. Attending trade shows worldwide. Preparation and delivery of the projects to several clients internationally, distribution of information to the engineering teams to meet client expectations.

Managing 30+ team members. Developing processes to enhance the service quality, improved client satisfaction with 60%. Leading global transition of HENKEL from Germany to India. Reduce penalities from the SLA breaches to 0 in 15 months by changing and enforcing processes.

Managed 82 Unix OS based SAP ERP servers with 99.99% up-time for a global retails store client. Supervised and corrected the backups of the production data with 0% data loss policy. Deployed maintenance upgrades twice annually.

Supported 40+ institutional traders in the Commodities Stock market. Operated 100+ servers responsible for the trading of the commodities in the 5 market sectors and in 4 different time zones. Improving and bug fixing software codes for the market applications (PNL calculation, and data collection).

Set up and managed 130+ UNIX and 5 DB2 servers with 99.99% up-time. Managed continuous deployment of processes. Deployed 4 software iterations per year, and monthly security patches. Use ITILv4 processes and tools for Problem and Change management.