Fred Wynyk

I'm an Engineering Manager with 17 years of experience, with background on systems, networking, security and DevOps/SRE. Managing cross-functional teams over the last 5 years. My mission is to create high performance teams that improve Reliability and Scalability for the business. My Career Highlights: At Workday: - Growing the Platform domain 4x in number of engineers, having now 4 teams with clear mission, vision and principles towards Automation, Reliability, DevEx and Innovation - Coaching and managing managers - Taking part of steering groups together with Directors and VPs across multiple timezones for big customer rollouts - Responsible for the Peakon stack migration from Heroku to AWS EKS - Responsible for the SOC2 Type II certification - Responsible for introducing GitOps - Fomenting Cloud Native and Platform Engineering culture At Onefootball: - Responsible for the World cup project: migration of ~60 microservices from EC2 to Kubernetes (2018). - Fomented the first SRE team in the company - Speaker at AWS SummitBerlin in 2019: Kubernetes & NewRelic: The secret to winning the World Cup - Speaker at FutureStack (NewRelic) Berlin 2019: How Onefootball Won the World Cup - Creator of Communities of Practice Previously (in Brazil): - Migration of ~80 microservices from Elastic Beanstalk to Kubernetes at Guiabolso (2017) - Responsible for implementing IaC with Terraform and Ansible at Moip Pagamentos (2015) - Responsible for the first PCI-DSS certification (2012) and the 4 consecutive ones at Moip Pagamentos Strongest Skills: Communication, Feedback culture, Leadership, Conflict Management, DevOps culture, Microservices, SRE, Observability, IaC, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Terraform, CI/CD, Linux, Networking. Languages: English (Fluent) Portuguese (Native) Spanish (Basic) More about me: Starting my career in networking and telecom in 2006, I was able to build a strong background in performance, stability and reliability, which provided me with the foundation to build automated high-available cloud-based environments. Today I have solid experience managing multiple core services teams and managing managers. I advocate for Platform Engineering, loosely coupled services, simplicity, cloud native culture and core teams as a product. I believe that honest and customer-centered communication is the key to make all these things to flourish. I consider myself very communicative, agile, with entrepreneur mindset, extremely focused on goals and always seeking for delivering business value.