“Successful DevOps engineers are curious and will remain curious to get educated to make things better, faster and more secure. They will constantly keep up with tech trends and advancements, all in order to bring and articulate value for the organisation.” Adrian Smolski – Manager for customer experience and solutions architecture at GitLab Asia-Pacific and Japan.
Source: Computer Weekly
About Adrian Smolski
Adrian is experienced throughout various technology platforms. He started his career as a Statistical developer in SAS, working with traditional datawarehouse technologies, discovering distributed open-source databases and file systems and then moving back to machine learning and AI operations. I have also delivered major container orchestration (Kubernetes fan) programs within the Federal Government, FSI sector, Telco and Media/Entertainment industries.
15+ years with proven leadership of delivery Platform implementations as well as working directly for executive stakeholders to support decision making solutions.
Adrian’s main area of expertise is building and developing analytics & DevOps team capabilities to assist clients end-to-end in solution engineering.
Specialties:
◇ Hadoop Distributions
◇ Machine Learning & Predictive modelling in R, Spark MLLib, Python, SPSS & SAS
◇ Deployment of Kubernetes container orchestration
◇ Highly technical Team forming, building, coaching and development
Adrian holds a NV1 Security Clearance for the Australian government.
