Qualification Profile: Mark Fink - AWS DevOps Engineer / Performance Engineer

A. Personal Data:
Year of Birth: 1969
Citizenship: German

Professional Focus: AWS DevOps Engineer / Performance Engineer

Education: - Diploma Degree in Computer Science (UAS)

- Master of Business Administration (MBA)

B. DevOps-Skills (Extract):
DevOps: - AWS CloudFormation, CodeDeploy, Lambda, API Gateway, Swagger
- Vagrant, Packer, Docker, Ansible
- Linux (Amazon Linux, Arch, Ubuntu, Cent OS)
- Jenkins Pipeline as Code, Travis CI

Programming - Python
Languages: - Bash
- XML / JSON / HTML
- Javascript / JQuery / d3

Performance Tools: - TheGrinder, GoGrinder

- JMeter
- Loadrunner, VUGen, PerformanceCenter (HP)

Certifications and 2017 AWS Certified Solution Architect Professional

Trainings: 2015 AWS Certified Solution Architect
2015 LPIC-1 Cerification Linux Professional Institute
2015 SUSE Certified Linux Administrator
2009 ISTQB Certified Tester

Experience: I am a DevOps full-stack engineer and performance engineer with 20

years of experience. I have been working on large enterprise
projects with some of Europe's most distinguished companies.
Qualification Profile: Mark Fink - AWS DevOps Engineer / Performance Engineer

DevOps: As a DevOps solution architect, I provide infrastructure automation

services within private and public clouds. I like uncharted territory and
problems that are hard to solve.

I love to: Advocate for, facilitate and create DevOps culture and automate
everything with the right DevOps tools!

Currently I focus on AWS consulting. I work in a fullstack microservices

environment. I have the technical development expertice from backend
persistence layer to the restful webservice layer, to client side javascript.

Infrastructure-as-code unlocks the potential of cloud computing:

* AWS cloud services: I automate serverless architecture deployments
using AWS Lambda, API Gateway, Swagger and API blueprints
* Scalable server stacks: Cloudformation, CodeDeploy, EC2, Docker

I also have practical development experience using DevOps tools like

Docker and Hashicorp Vagrant, Packer in this setting.

As a toolsmith I provide automation tools and templates using Jenkins

and Travis.ci to teams, so they can test, build, and deploy their services. I
drive the adoption of pipeline-as-code. I have experience in coaching and
supporting teams (from 5 up to 80 developers).

Performance Excellent working knowledge in Performance-Test-Life-Cycle for

Engineering: enterprise applications. I competently cover the full life cycle of design,
preparation, and implementation of test scenarios, test scripts and utility
functions for performance testing using LoadRunner, JMeter, TheGrinder,
Neoload, and other available tools.

I support / execute testdata preparation and cleansing.

I perform root cause analysis to detect memory leaks and bottlenecks in

servers, databases and enterprise applications. I support and propose
resolutions for performance tuning.

From working in different settings, I have a lot of practical expertise in

executing a performance test project from the start - including test
infrastructure and defining a comprehensive performance plan which
includes scope, performance requirements, approach, test deliverables,
project deliverables, schedules, risk assessment, etc. My analysis and
test reports support decision making for performance strategy and
technology to use.

Team Skills: Effective technical writing skills with hands on experience creating plans,
documentation and status reports.

Excellent oral and written communication skills (German, English),

committed, quick learner, result oriented, smart working with a quest to
take on new challenges and to learn new technologies.

Dynamic team player, enthusiastic, and greatly motivated towards

success and completion of projects. At the same time, highly capable of
working independently.
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C. Project Experience (Extract):

04/2018 – Customer: Miltenyi Biotech, Remote
Title: Software Engineer
Project: Fighting cancer with Python / Cell sorter app redesign
Environment: Linux, Python
Legacy System Redesign: Redesign, Refactoring, Test Automation
Like a processing plant, a cell sorter involves complex
components from different disciplines like chemical
processes, optics, mechanics, hydro mechanics at
nanometer scale. The "plant's" processes are controlled by
a Python application. I was responsible for the complete
redesign of the monolithic software into maintainable and
testable packages and modules. After completion of the
redesign I did most of the refactoring and introduced
automated regression tests to the project.

06/2016 – 03/2018 Customer: Pro7 Digital & Glomex GmbH, Munich

Title: DevOps Engineer with the SRE team
Project: Global Media Exchange; Fullstack Video Platform
Environment: AWS, Linux, CloudFormation, Lambda, Rest-Services
DevOps: Python, Boto3, Troposphere, Docker, Ansible, Jenkins
Refactoring and maintenance of cloud deployment tools
for AWS Lambda, API Gateway, OpenAPI, Swagger,
CloudFormation, CodeDeploy. Infrastructure-as-code and
Jenkins pipeline-as-code templates for AWS fullstack
microservices.

12/2015 – 05/2016 Customer: Uniserv, Amsterdam

Title: DevOps Engineer with the DataHub Scrum team
Project: Master Data Management, CDH Data Hub
Environment: MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Soap- / Rest-Webservices, C#
DevOps: Packer, Vagrant, Python, Bash, Jenkins 2.0, GoGrinder
Introduced infrastructure-as-code and Jenkins pipeline-as-
code for automated regression testing and continuous
performance on AWS EC2.

06/2015 – 10/2015 Customer: E/D/E / E-Commerce, Munich & Wuppertal

Title: DevOps Engineer
Project: Toolineo.de / Marketplace for craftsman tools
Environment: Java, Python, Soap- / Rest- Webservice, Solr, Hybris
DevOps: Python, Bash, Ansible, Puppet, Vagrant, Jenkins
Setup CI and test automation for automated regression
testing using RobotFramework, Selenium and SoapUI.
Infrastructure-as-code using Vagrant, Ansible + Puppet.
Setup Grafana Performance Metrics. Concept,
implementation and execution of performance tests for all
marketplace applications using TheGrinder.

03/2014 – 03/2015 Customer: Payback GmbH / Customer Reward Systems, Munich

Title: Test Engineer as member of onsite/architecture team
Project: Payback Global framework
Environment: Java, Python, Soap / Rest Webservice, Spring Batch
CI: Jenkins, SoapUI, Groovy, Ansible, Vagrant
Update test automation infrastructure and tests for
batch-file-, Soap-, and Rest- interfaces.
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08/2013 – 02/2014 Customer: Fiducia IT AG / Private Banking, Munich

Title: Test Engineer as member of an agile development team
Project: JBF banking framework
Environment: Java, Linux, Vaadin
CI: Jenkins, Selenium
Consulting, Update test automation infrastructure for
Selenium / Webdriver tests.

07/2012 – 03/2013 Customer: Kühne & Nagel / Transport Logistics, Hamburg

Title: Test Engineer as part of an agile / Scrum team
Project: Ecommerce application
Environment: Java, Linux, Oracle 11g, GWT, Pentaho
CI: Fitnesse/Slim, Selenium, Jenkins
New test automation infrastructure, migration of the
existing automated regression test suite, exploratory
testing, performance testing.

01/2012 – 06/2012 Customer: Kühne & Nagel / Transport Logistics, Hamburg

Title: Test Engineer as part of an agile development team
Project: Wireless sensor network infrastructure and frontend
Environment: Java, Linux, Oracle 11g, AQ, JSP, Struts
CI: Fitnesse/Slim, Selenium, Jenkins, Python, Jmeter, SoapUI
My involvement included implementation and
maintenance of the automated regression test suite from
scratch, exploratory testing, performance testing. We
included testing tours, automation stories and defect
processing into a Kanban workflow.

08/2009 – 11/2011 Customer: Credit Suisse / Banking, Zurich

Title: Performance Engineer within the technical testing team
Project: Banking applications
Environment: Java, Linux, (some .Net and C++)
Performance: Loadrunner, TheGrinder, BurbProxy, Python
I supported application teams through the whole
cycle of performance tests from initiation to go-live
decision.
During my time at Credit Suisse I teamed up with more
than 50 application teams. Usually I worked with two to
three teams in parallel. I was responsible for the whole
performance test cycle (plan, prepare, implement, execute,
analyse, report).

05/2005 – 07/2009 Customer: Telefonica O2 / Telecommunications, Munich

Title: Performance Engineer / Test Engineer
Project: Order Logistic Backend / Logistic Callcenter Application
Environment: Java, Oracle 11g, Hibernate, JSP, Struts
CI: Fitnesse, Selenium, Jmeter, CruiseControl
Significant performance and quality enhancements of the
Java order- management application. Resolution of
performance problems and system crashes due to the
set-up of a performance test suite, continuous integration
with automated builds and tests which ensure
integrability and testability of the application at any time
during development.

2001 – 2004 Employer: Logica CMG, Munich / System Integrator

Title: Test Engineer