gravatar Juri Hudolejev

Experience

Lecturer at Tallinn University of Technology

Since September 2018

Tallinn University of Technology is the only technical university in Estonia.

In cooperation with a fellow lecturer we have developed, are teaching and improving the IT Infrastructure Services course: hands-on course about IT infrastructure deployment and configuration automation for IT and cyber security students (blog post about the course).

Infrastructure Engineer at Pipedrive

Since June 2021: Team lead

July 2018 — May 2021 (2 years 11 months): Senior

October 2017 — June 2018 (9 months): Mid

Pipedrive is developing an online sales management tool (CRM).

I have joined the Infrastructure team responsible for running backend hardware and software:

Over time Infrastructure team was split into several teams with different responsibility areas. Currently I'm leading the team that deploys, configures, operates, monitors and upgrades CouchDB, Elasticsearch, Kafka, RabbitMQ, email services (PowerMTA) and backup infrastructure (Bareos + AWS) — all together ~1800 servers.

I'm also actively participating in:

Expertise acquired and improved:

Infrastructure Engineer at OpenNode

October 2013 — September 2017 (4 years)

OpenNode is developing a virtualization and private cloud management toolkit: OpenNode OS, NodeConductor, NodeFabric.

I was involved in multiple projects to build cloud computing solutions:

My tasks include:

Expertise acquired and improved:

Lecturer at University of Tartu

January 2011 — May 2013 (2 years 5 months)

University of Tartu is the biggest university in Estonia.

I was teaching Applied Cryptography course: hands-in course about cryptographic concepts and protocols.

Infrastructure Engineer at ZeroTurnaound

August 2010 — October 2013 (3 years 3 months)

ZeroTurnaround is developing productivity tools for Java: JRebel, XRebel, Optimizer for Eclipse.

I started as a first member of future infrastructure team. My job involved a range of tasks:

Expertise acquired and improved:

Java Developer at Guardtime

June 2007 — August 2010 (3 years 3 months)

Guardtime is known for its keyless trusted timestamping technology.

Although hired as a Java developer I was also performing various devops tasks. My tasks included:

Expertise acquired and improved:

Web Developer at BaIT Partner

August 2005 — June 2006 (11 months)

BaIT Partner business is integration of network and data security systems.

My responsibilities included:

Expertise acquired:

Education

PhD in Computer Science (unfinished)

University of Tartu, Estonia

September 2010 — June 2012

Area: privacy-preserving data mining.

As part of studies, teaching Applied Cryptography course in Java (2011, 2012) and Python (2013).

MSc in Computer and Systems Engineering

Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia

September 2007 — June 2009

Thesis: Log Integrity Assurance with Cryptographic Timestamps.

Completed NATO CCD CoE Cyber Defence course (2008).

BSc in Computer and Systems Engineering

Tallinn University of Technologies, Estonia

September 2003 — June 2006

Thesis: Design and Testing of Digital Circuits.

Additional Information

Contributions to open source projects:

Personal Details

Born in 1984.

Spoken languages: English, Estonian, Russian, basic understanding of German.

European driving license (A, B category).

Interests: automating everything, open source, snowboarding, traveling.