Czechia

Site Reliability

Platform Product Management

Architectural Engineering

Ivo Klimša

Head of SRE

Leadership

Cloud computing

GitHub

Jira

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Bootstrapped the SRE organization from zero to two teams in 9 months. 

Established an inclusive culture while driving down outage time by 80% in 1 year.

Improved the engineering experience by reducing deployment failures by 40% and Mean Time To Resolve (MTTR) by 60% while scaling up services.

Implemented agile methodologies within SRE organization, pivoting SRE from operators to code contributors across major product portfolios.

Scaling Product Engineering at Productboard -> from 2 teams to 5 teams in the Insights tribe.
Built from scratch 3 product teams (full-stack). Leading cross-team projects, working with senior leadership on engineering strategy, and many more ...

Productboard is the leading customer-centric management platform, helping product teams to deliver the right products to market faster. Over 4,000 modern, customer-driven companies - like Zoom, UiPath, and Microsoft - use Productboard to help understand what users need, prioritize what to build next, and rally everyone around the roadmap. With offices in San Francisco and Prague, Productboard has raised $137 million in funding from leading investors like Tiger Global, Sequoia, Bessemer, Kleiner Perkins, and Index.

Currently working as SRE Manager.  I have successfully built forth DevOps team from scratch (hire, train, establish vision, KPIs). SRE team applying modern DevOps & SRE techniques operating a large-scale distributed SaaS application. Our technology stack is AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform and many more.

As a DevOps Manager, I have successfully built third DevOps team from scratch (hire, train, establish vision, KPIs). Private cloud team is taking care of vRealize platform - building new blueprints, automation of deployment, advanced automation of software installation (leveraging 3rd tools like Ansible, Docker). This platform is being used by ~1000 users as self-service platform. 

Beyond that also managing 2nd DevOps team, which is taking care of CI/CD process. esponsible for design and development of continuous delivery frameworks and ensure best practices for builds & releases are applied. 
Develop custom integration between our tooling to help with continuous integration. 
Huge part of work is automation of continuous integration & continuous deliver.

Leading small team of DevOps professionals. 
As a Team Leader, I'm responsible for design and development of continuous delivery frameworks and ensure best practices for builds & releases are applied. 
Develop custom integration between our tooling to help with continuous integration. 
Huge part of work is automation of continuous integration & continuous deliver.

Some cool technologies which we use:

* Docker
* Powershell
* TeamCity
* SonarQube
* Artifactory
* BitBucket (git)
* NUget, Paket, Maven and many more

Leading small team of DevOps professionals. 
As a Team Leader, I'm responsible for design and development of software infrastructure for complete build and testing CI of our products. Manage and monitor the engineering services, labs. Develop custom tools and integration with existing tools to increase engineering productivity. Improving our current infrastructure and move it forward, which include automation.

Some cool technologies which we use:

* JIRA
* Docker
* Ansible
* TeamCity
* SonarQube
* Artifactory
* BitBucket (git)
* and many more

Perform technical administration of CI servers and infrastructure servers. Cooperate on team standards, routine tasks and automation. Also improving our current infrastructure and move it forward. Communicate and cooperate with engineering and 3rd party vendors. Create, improve and maintain system security policies and standards. And automate all tasks which can be automated.

Systems which I'm taking care of TeamCity, Perforce, Artifactory, Docker, JIRA, FishEye, FogBugz, Archiva and many more.

Perform technical administration of application servers Weblogic, Oracle Service Bus, Apache proxies, F5 LTM .Cooperate on team standards, routine tasks and automatization.Troubleshoot problems on network and application layer.Communicate and cooperate with SW development and SW vendor support centers when appropriate.Create, improve and maintain system security policies and standards, address any potential security issues and report to Security Manager.

Application server administration, monitoring and remote management of ser-
vers, the solution of user requirements, installing updates, manage backups,
application installation, administration of large systems of international compa-
nies, participation in the incident, problem and change management processes, support for developers, creating operational documentation

Operation IT systems and servers. Operation and maintenance backup technology. Administration and maintenance MS Windows Server (2000, 2003, 2008, 2008R2). Administration and maintenance Unix/Linux ( Debian, CentOs, Red Hat, Solaris, Oracle Linux ..). Administration SAN infrastructure. Regular prophylaxis. Providing technical support (L2). Advancement of IT infrastructure.

Building wireless networks, building optical networks. Administration and main-
tenance MS Windows 2000, MS Windows 2003. Administration and maintenance Unix/Linux servers (Debian). Providing technical support (L1). Operation monitoring system. Installation and maintenance of voice services ( Asterisk, AVAYA ..)

Service and configuration PC and betting terminals. Installation specific periphe-rals (GPRS modems, Thermal printers ..). Administration MS Windows 2000, MS Windows 2003 and MS XP. Providing technical support, holding service 24x7.

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