About

Jan Harasym is an Expert Online Infrastructure Engineer (SRE) at Sharkmob with over 12 years of relevant experience. He has a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Computer Science from Birmingham City University. Jan has worked with several companies in the past, including Massive Entertainment - a Ubisoft Studio, where he was a Senior Online Infrastructure Engineer. He was responsible for the online infrastructure of Tom Clancy's "The Division" and "The Division 2" always online video games. He realized the architecture and supported the automation, deployment, patching, and maintenance of the dedicated servers that run the game world of The Division series. He also pioneered "ChatOps" and testing of salt states and conversion to "Formulas". He has experience in designing scalable architectures on The Division 2 specifically, being enhanced using Google Cloud. His tech stack includes SRE, infra, Senior Software Engineer, Terraform, test, Python, Elastic Search, MySQL, Golang, Redis, and Ruby. Jan has also worked as a Technical Operations Manager at Firebox.com, where he managed all things electronic, from data center operations to desktop support and VOIP management. He was the sole Systems Administrator for three environments, including Warehouse, Office, and DC. He has extensive experience in configuration management and automation, Oracle/Sun Solaris 9 and NexentaStor experience, OpenBSD [pf|bind9|dhcpd] experience, Ubuntu Linux open stack implementation experience, and more. Jan has helped architect and deliver "Vampire the Masquerade: BloodHunt" services for online play at Sharkmob. He is a giant pain in the ass, according to his LinkedIn summary.