Adin Hodovic

Backend/Infrastructure Engineer

Last update: Nov. 24, 2024

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About

I am an engineer who excels across various roles, from Backend to DevOps. I can work across the stack and see myself as a quick learner, although I prefer certain technologies, I don't limit myself to them.

For an overview of my capabilities, please feel free to visit my blog, review my open source projects and closed source products I've built here, and explore my preferred hardware/software selections here.

Working with the following technologies brings me joy:

  • Terraform/Tanka (Jsonnet)
  • Prometheus/Grafana/Loki/Tempo
  • Kubernetes/Docker
  • Go/Python/Django/Wagtail
  • Github Actions
  • ArgoCD/Flux

I enjoy spending my free time on reading on new infrastructure tooling, Vim hacks/plugins, Linux toolkits and Django/Python plugins.

Work experience

Site Reliability Engineer · AuthZed

New York City (remote)

June 1, 2024 - Present

AuthZed is bringing Google's Zanzibar paper to the masses. SpiceDB is the open-source, Apache 2.0 implementation of the paper. AuthZed is offering commercial offerings, including support and hosting for SpiceDB.

I'm working as a site reliability engineer at AuthZed. Managing the hosting and support for SpiceDB using the following technologies:

  • Kubernetes
  • EKS/GKE
  • AWS/GCP
  • ArgoCD
  • Tanka/Jsonnet/Kustomize
  • Pulumi
  • Golang
  • Prometheus/Grafana
  • Loki/Tempo
  • CockroachDB/Spanner/PostgreSQL

Freelancer · Honeylogic

Croatia

July 12, 2018 - Present

Freelancing through my own company.

Technologies that I specialize in while freelancing:

  • Infrastructure/Devops/SRE
  • Python/Django/Go

Platform/Backend Engineer · Ehouse

Tel Aviv-Yafo (remote)

March 1, 2022 - June 1, 2024

A Tel Aviv startup. Worked part time as a DevOps engineer to create and manage the infrastructure and helped out with the backend from time-to-time.

Used technologies as:

  • ArgoCD and Github Actions
  • Grafana/Prometheus/Managed ELK (logs)
  • EKS configured with Terraform and Grafana's Tanka
  • NodeJs/NestJs
  • Apollo GraphQL
  • Pomerium(OAuth) and Vault (Secrets Management)
  • Mongo Atlas and RDS
  • RabbitMQ

Platform/Backend Engineer · UnitedMasters

New York City (remote)

June 1, 2022 - Aug. 1, 2023

Django backend contracting building a product end to end, I'm the one responsible for setting up all the infrastructure as well.

Technologies used:

  • Django/DRF/Celery
  • Redis
  • Postgres
  • ArgoCD/Github Actions
  • Prometheus/Grafana/Alertmanager
  • Sentry/Pyroscope
  • Kubernetes

Infrastructure Engineer · Flare

San Diego (Remote)

May 1, 2021 - June 1, 2022

A San Diego startup within the legal space. Worked as a DevOps engineer to create and manage the infrastructure for initially an engineering team of 10 to an engineering team of 50.

Used technologies as:

  • ArgoCD and Github Actions
  • Grafana/Prometheus/Managed ELK (logs)
  • EKS configured with Terraform and Grafana's Tanka
  • NodeJs/NestJs
  • Pomerium(OAuth) and Vault (Secrets Management)
  • Mongo Atlas and RDS
  • RabbitMQ

Software Engineer · New Lantern

San Fransisco (Remote)

Aug. 1, 2021 - March 1, 2022

As a part-time software developer, I worked on their MVP product from the ground up - doing everything and anything that's needed in a very small startup. My contributions helped shape the product, which played a role in supporting the company's growth as they successfully secured a Series A funding round of $19M.

  • ReactJS + Django
  • GKE
  • Tanka/Terraform/Ansible
  • Cloud SQL (Postgres), Redis, Celery

Infrastruture Engineer · Tidepool

San Fransisco (Remote)

April 4, 2020 - Sept. 1, 2021

Full-time DevOps/SRE engineer at Tidepool.

  • Golang
  • EKS
  • HPA/VPA/Cluster Autoscaler
  • VPC/Subnets/Networking
  • Jsonnet/Tanka, Terraform
  • Linkerd, Envoy, Gloo API gateway
  • Certmanager
  • FluxCD, Helm-Operator
  • Github Actions, Argo Workflows
  • Prometheus-Operator, Grafana, Alertmanager

Only showing the most recent work experiences. All experiences can be shared on request.

Projects

Writing

Education

University of Gothenburg

Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering and Management

2014 - 2017