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Volodymyr Fesko

Expert Web Developer | DevOps & Solutions Architect

Kyiv, Ukraine
Male
1986

Profile

IT professional with wide range of interests, especially in software development and IT infrastructure.

Long time ago I was basic IT technician whose responsibility was maintaining Windows/Unix systems and crafting tiny tools and scripts to make everybody happy dealing with day to day work. Then I took a new role as a lecturer of IT internals - software development and infrastructure - it was awesome experience I would now say! I shared my knowledge with hundreds of people who successfully graduated and now live their lives making good things. I realized that my passion is deepest dive into technologies and software.

Experiences

For many years I work with dev teams to make as good software as possible, leveraging modern tools and technologies.

Latest projects
past years
Developer / DevOps / TeamLead
WorldWide
  • Laravel applications developed from scratch: Financial, SEO, Crypto, News, Sports domains
  • Magento 2 applications hosted and maintained
  • Built AWS solutions for web applications
  • Server infrastructure optimization performed, migrated web apps to new hosting
  • Automated AI workflows with n8n
  • Conducted OWASP Top 10:2025 training
  • many more…
2013.05 - present
DevOps Team Lead / CTO
Kyiv, Ukraine

In past 10 years as a DevOps Team Lead / CTO:

  • Significantly improved company infrastructure, maintained its important services (securely connected offices across several countries, ISP failover, DNS etc)
  • Established internal IT team of 10+ members providing DevOps Services, supervising and coordinating, recruiting and adapting new people
  • Established and oversaw development standards (web applications, CI/CD, infrastructure)
  • Built technical solution concepts, PoCs
  • Built internal DC based on Open Nebula
  • Steered technology communities
  • Dealt with legacy systems, migrating to modern technologies
  • Helped pre-sales team to prepare valuable offers
  • Performed technical, performance and security audits
  • Mastered extreme troubleshooting skills over years
  • Went from SVN to GitLab, from Fabric to modern CI/CD, from pfSense to RouterOS and from Windows to Mac

Conducted trainings:

  • Magento 2 technology stack and Certification
  • DevOps technology stack
  • Web/HTTP FastTrack
  • OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities

Active developer / DevOps:

  • Wrote apps in Laravel, Slim and other handy frameworks
  • Maintained infrastructure (configuration management, monitoring…)
  • Supported project teams (problem solving, architecture, performance)
2012.04 - 2013.05
PHP/Magento Developer
Kyiv, Ukraine

Mastered Magento 1 Enterprise Edition from scratch and certified as Developer PLUS and Zend PHP Engineer.

  • Magento 1 eCommerce solutions development and delivery
  • Data import/export and optimization
  • Service integrations
  • Direct communications with business
  • Maintained other PHP technologies: Drupal, WordPress, Joomla
Knauf Gips Donbass [Full-time]
2010.05 - 2012.04
System Administrator
Soledar, Ukraine

As a Systems Administrator I had a wide-ranging duties including installing, supporting and maintaining servers and other computer systems, developing and deploying intranet software, maintaining and improving websites in PHP, planning for and responding to service outages, data processing automation with tools developed in program language which is appropriate to situation.

  • Maintained and improved existing IT infrastructure
  • Automated data processing with developed tools in C#, Delphi
  • Wrote technical documentation
  • Designed and implemented automated data backup systems
  • Developed user’s help desk system in PHP (LAMP)
2009.09 - 2010.04
IT Engineer
Bakhmut, Ukraine

Maintaining and improving IT infrastructure, optimizing business processes and IT goals, lecturing.

  • Restructurized IT infrastructure
  • Developed intranet software in Delphi
  • Designed and implemented microcontroller driven systems
  • Maintained websites in PHP
  • Managed work of system administrators
  • Lectured in Computer Sciences and Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering
2005.08 - 2009.09
IT Techinical / System Administrator
Bakhmut, Ukraine

Maintaining Windows/Unix systems, lecturing.

  • Developed schedule construction tool in Delphi, electronic books shell and other internal tools
  • Maintained websites in PHP
  • Configured and maintained Unix-based proxy, Internet and e-mail server
  • Lectured in Computer Sciences and Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering

Skills

Rock-solid technical background: IT technician and teacher in early years, System Administrator and Networks Engineer, Full-stack Developer (PHP) and CTO of the IT company with 300+ employees. Years of technology bound work gave me outstanding abilities to solve widest range of technical issues, debug to the deepest origins and provide sophisticated solutions.

PHP
Web
Databases
Networking
OS
Cloud / Virt
Monitoring
CI/CD
Configuration
PHP
Magento 1 Magento 2 Laravel Symfony
Web
Apache Nginx Varnish HTTP, SSL/TLS Email CDN
Databases
MySQL PostgreSQL Redis Memcached Elasticsearch MongoDB
Networking
MikroTik (RouterOS), Ubiquiti Firewalls Routing Protocols Load Balancing
OS
Linux MacOS Windows
Cloud / Virt
AWS DO Hetzner OVH Docker LXC Kubernetes Microservices IaaC
Monitoring
New Relic Prometheus Grafana ELK Zabbix
CI/CD
Jenkins Gitlab CI Github Actions Capistrano Fabric Deployer
Configuration
Terraform Ansible Puppet
Extra Skills
Redmine Jira Scripting Automation Desing patterns Balena Cloud AVR MC

Education

IT Infrastructure design
Master
IT Infrastructure design
Bachelor
Computer systems and networks maintenance
Junior Bachelor

Certificates

Publications

Languages

Ukrainian [Native]
Russian [Native]
English [Upper-Intermediate]
French [Basic]

Interests

Smart Home
Audio technologies
Fishing
Engineering