Dmitry Kireev
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Dmitry Kireev

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Last updated on 2024-12-04 00:01:00 +0000 UTC from Tallinn, Estonia.

Frankly, defining Work and Non-Work is a bit of a challenge for me, since I enjoy my work so much.

I’ll use Work to describe what I do most of the time and Non-Work to describe what I’m doing in-between.

These days I’m mostly focused on consulting as a fractional Cloud Architect / DevOps Engineer. I enjoy working with small and mid-size startups, where I can leverage a mix of my technical and business skills. Depending on my load I can be available for 5-20 hours per week to help your project (reach out).

1. SRE & DevOps Projects

These projects occupy the largest chunk of my time on a regular basis.

I use my hands-on skills as an SRE, DevOps or Cloud Architect

For the list of past projects see Past Projects.

Since I enjoy SRE & DevOps so much (maybe too much) I decided to challenge myself and start building projects where I can stay away from anything DevOps-related.

I tend to code in Python, Go and TypeScript. I try to do my best not to get involved in infrastructure work as much as possible while doing my Lab Projects.

2.2. Atun: Seamless AWS VPCs SSH & SSM Tunnels

  • Stack: Go, Viper, Cobra
  • Deployment: Local cli install
  • Description: Seamless Tunnels: Access AWS VPCs with SSH & SSM without exposing a bastion host to the internet.

2.3. On Hold / Slow

  • Stack: Python, EasyOCR, OpenCV
  • Deployment: Local (for now)
  • Description: A tool that helps you to string replace text on screenshots.
  • Stack: Python, Flask, Supabase, TypeScript
  • Deployment: Google App Script, Hetzner Cloud, Kamal
  • Description: Tool that helps solopreneurs to track their travel expenses and maximize deductions.

This is a hard one to point out, since the Work section is basically what I enjoy the most. Busy with projects, no significant progress in the non-work section. Although, some things are happening.

Japanese learning has slowed down. Likely will be getting back to Portuguese. I’m not a systematic language learner, more like an environmental-driven one.

I still love languages in general. At the moment I can communicate in English, Russian, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Croatian and Ukrainian and some others at varying levels.

Finally got my hands on my Bass Ibanez SR and Luna Acoustic guitars. Haven’t recorded anything yet.

3.1. Azores / Terceira Island

Smaller island with beautiful scenery and nature. Sorry for the photo spam, maybe I should move it to a separate post.

Portuguese cuisine is simple, but very high quality. Highly recommend Queijo Fresco, local meats and bread

3.4. Southern California / Orange County

I used to live there and this time visited it for less than a month in October. Got some good memories!

Orange County, and specifically Irvine area is something special: It’s so manicured it feels surreal

Also immediately recalled the food quality in the US: It takes almost 2x as much food to get full comparing to Europe. It tastes and looks great though! Just look a this kebab with avocado

Also sugars are everywhere, sadly. Whole Foods is good, but it’s the same stuff just more hand-picked and with higher prices.

Interestingly, Sushi is one of the best (next to Hawaii and Japan).

Also, Costco $1.5 hot dog is still a must

Haven’t been playing much due to travel and projects. Last games played: Diablo IV, Starfield Still looking into building a thin-ish client for GeForce Now on Ryzen 7 to play Steam Games or stream GeForce Now.