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Ulisseas

Senior DevOps and Platform Engineer

Neill Shazly

Platforms and pipelines that enterprise teams can run themselves.

Victoria, BC · Pacific time · Remote across North America · Available for contract and fractional work

  • Kubernetes
  • Terraform
  • GitLab CI / GitHub Actions
  • HashiCorp Vault
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Azure

Ulisseas is the consulting practice of Neill Shazly. Over 15 years of experience in software delivery for enterprise teams in aviation, finance, healthcare, utility and public sector asset planning, and music.

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Outcomes

50%lower hosting costs after re-platforming 30 apps onto hybrid EKS/RKE
300+repositories and 500+ users moved in one enterprise GitHub migration
1,000+secrets moved into Vault, automating key rotation for 20+ engineers
>99%build reliability after moving off TeamCity to GitLab CI

Proof

This site runs on what I sell

Static Astro site, PR-only main, semantic-release, probe on every deploy, public Grafana dashboards.

Services

Sheet 01 / 03

Kubernetes platforms

Design, build, and migrate to Kubernetes on EKS, GKE, or AKS.

Platforms teams ship from on day one.

  • Platform selection and cost analysis
  • Hybrid datacentre and cloud clusters
  • Helm charts, network policy, and namespaced environments

CI/CD and delivery pipelines

GitLab CI and GitHub Actions pipelines that are reliable, templated, and owned by the teams that use them.

Build reliability above 99% after migration.

  • Shared templates and reusable pipelines
  • Application-specific build environments
  • Zero-downtime production deployments

Identity and secrets automation

HashiCorp Vault, Ping Identity, and OIDC/JWT auth so applications and developers stop passing around static keys.

Least-privilege access with audit logging for financial data.

  • Vault design and legacy secret consolidation
  • Custom Terraform providers
  • LDAP and OIDC integration
  • GitHub and cloud migrationsPlanning, dry runs, and hands-on execution; runbooks so the client runs the next one.
  • Team enablementOnsite and remote workshops, reference solutions, onboarding and skills tracking.
  • AI-assisted deliveryAgent workflows with Claude Code and local, open-source models, set up as standards of practice.

Technologies I work with

Delivery layers · 7
  1. Layer 01

    Plan and develop

    • Jira
    • Confluence
    • ServiceNow
    • Claude Code
    • Ollama
    • Go
    • Python
    • Java
    • Bash
    • Node.js
    • Spring Boot
    • Flask
  2. Layer 02

    CI/CD

    • GitLab CI
    • GitHub Actions
    • CircleCI
    • TeamCity
    • Argo CD
    • Docker
    • Helm
    • Packer
  3. Layer 03

    Provisioning and security

    • Terraform
    • Ansible
    • CloudFormation
    • Azure Bicep
    • HashiCorp Vault
    • Ping Identity
    • Active Directory
  4. Layer 04

    Orchestration and management

    • Kubernetes
    • Rancher
    • OpenFaaS
    • Temporal
    • Ambassador Gateway (now Gravitee Edge Stack)
  5. Layer 05

    Platform and runtime

    • AWS
    • GCP
    • Azure
    • Cloudflare
    • EKS
    • GKE
    • AKS
    • Linux (CentOS, RHEL)
  6. Layer 06

    Data and messaging

    • PostgreSQL
    • MSSQL
    • Oracle
    • MongoDB
    • Redis
    • Kafka
    • Apache Camel
    • Apache Drill
  7. Layer 07

    Observability and analysis

    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • Honeycomb
    • Datadog
    • Splunk

How I work

Embedded, not handed off

Most engagements start with a short assessment, then move into hands-on delivery alongside your team. The goal is a platform or pipeline your engineers understand and own, with runbooks and training in place before I leave.

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Regulated environments

Change management and approvals, least-privilege and audit-logging defaults, NDA and background check on request, references available.