Education
2006
Military University of Technology in Warsaw
2001 University of Ecology and Management in Warsaw
1995 High School No. XXXVII in Warsaw
- Master of Engineering (degree)
- Faculty of Cybernetics – major: Computer Science, specialty: Information Systems
- graduated with the result: very good
- diploma thesis: Design and implementation of information support system of maintenance process for specializing courses, workshops and postgraduate studies.
- thesis supervisor: Jerzy Stanik, M.Eng., PhD
2001 University of Ecology and Management in Warsaw
- Bachelor of Science (degree)
- Faculty of Management
- graduated with the result: good
- diploma thesis: Project of Corporate Computer Network Organization for Brokerage House PBK S.A.
- thesis supervisor: Wojciech Żebrowski, M.Eng., PhD
1995 High School No. XXXVII in Warsaw
- Mathematics & physics science class
Work Experience
since 04.2022
since 12.2018 to 03.2022
since 08.2015
since 03.2013 to 09.2016
since 02.2012 to 02.2013
since 10.2010 to 06.2015
since 06.2004 to 2008
since 09.2007 to 02.2008
since 2006 to 2007
since 01.2001 to 06.2001
Customer Success Manager Architect
IBM Polska Sp. z o.o.Type of activity:
- Customer support in the field of IBM Cloud Pak adoption
- Designing architecture for selected IBM Cloud Pak solutions
since 12.2018 to 03.2022
Senior Solutions Architect
since 10.2016 to 11.2018Solutions Architect
Linux Polska Sp. z o. o.Type of activity:
- Single Sign On Solutions Specialist
- Certified Red Hat Enterprise Linux Trainer
since 08.2015
Sole Proprietorship
Andrzej Kardaś OpenAdmin.plType of activity:
- dedicated and virtual server administration
- implementation of open IT technologies
- conducting training courses on the use of open IT technologies
since 03.2013 to 09.2016
trainer/lecturer
University Of Information TechnologyResponsibilities: conducting exercises in the course Introduction to E-Learning for full time and part time students.
since 02.2012 to 02.2013
trainer/lecturer
University Of Information TechnologyResponsibilities: conducting classes (lectures/exercises) in E-Learning in the post-graduate study for IT teachers. Studies organized in projekt " I Teach Information Technology with Passion".
since 10.2010 to 06.2015
Specialist
Central Examination CommissionResponsibilities: IT specialist in projects: 6 "Modernization of examinations of professional competence" and 7 "Construction of bank for examination tasks" financed by the ESF, in particular:
- administration of servers designed to publish portals for authors of examination tasks
- development of final version of the virtual machine designed to perform automated standardization of examination tasks and examinations OnLine
- constant updating of the virtual machine designed to perform automated standardization of examination tasks and examinations OnLine
- work on the Terms of Reference for Project 6 and 7
- evaluation of tenders
- taking part in the tender committee
- quality control of the source code created for the Terms of Reference
- creating models of acceptance testing and supervision of testing
since 06.2004 to 2008
trainer/lecturer
Computer Assisted Education and Information Technology Centre in WarsawResponsibilities: trainer on the training courses organized by CAEaITC:
- Administrator of Internet Lab based on Microsoft SBS Server system part 1, 2, 3 i 4. Training organized within the project of the National Education Program for the information society.
- Administrator of school multimedia center based on Microsoft Windows operating system. Training organized within the project of the National Education Program for the information society.
- Creation of the school Web site based on Joomla CMS
since 09.2007 to 02.2008
assistant
Warsaw University - Computer Assisted Education and Information Technology CentreResponsibilities: conducting exercises in the post-graduate study for IT teachers in the following courses:
- Information Technology Teacher Workshop
- Administrator of Information Technology Lab
- Networks, Internet and Multimedia
since 2006 to 2007
assistant
Warsaw Higher School of HumanitiesResponsibilities: conducting exercises in course:
- Computer Texts Editing - Computer Graphics and Using the Internet
since 01.2001 to 06.2001
apprentice
Brokerage House PBK S.A.Responsibilities: apprentice in Telecommunication & Information Technology Office.
https://www.kardasa.pl/admin/
Finished Courses
- 2023, CL210 - Red Hat OpenStack Administration II: Day 2 Operations for Cloud Operators organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2023, CL110 - Red Hat OpenStack Administration I: Core Operations for Domain Operators organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2023, DO370 - Enterprise Kubernetes Storage with Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2023, DO380 - Red Hat OpenShift Administration III : Scaling Kubernetes Deployments in the Enterprise organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2023, DO480 - Multicluster Management with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2022, RH362 - Red Hat Security: Identity Management and Active Directory Integration organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2022, DO328 - Building Resilient Microservices with Istio and Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2021, RH318 - Red Hat Virtualization organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2021, LFS268 - CI/CD With Jenkin X organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2021, LFS260 - Kubernetes Security Essentials organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2021, DO288 - Red Hat OpenShift Development II: Containerizing Applications organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2020, LFD232 - Cloud Foundry For Developers organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2020, LFD201 - Introduction To Open Source Development Git And Linux organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2019, RH354 - RHEL8 New Features for Experienced Linux Administrators organized by Red Hat Inc.
- 2019, LFD259 - Kubernetes for Developers organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2019, LFS258 - Kubernetes Fundamentals organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2019, LFS254 - Containers for Developers and Quality Assurance organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2018, DO285: Containers, Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift Administration I organized by LinuxPolska certified training partner Red Hat Inc.
- 2018, LFS253 - Containers Fundamentals organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2018, RH442: Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning organized by LinuxPolska certified training partner Red Hat Inc.
- 2018, JB248: JBoss Application Administration I organized by LinuxPolska certified training partner Red Hat Inc.
- 2018, DO081x: Fundamentals of Containers, Kubernetes, and Red Hat OpenShift organized by RedHAT Inc.
- 2017, Splunk, Introducation And Data Analitics organized by The LinuxPolska Sp. Z O.O.
- 2017, LFS211 - Linux Networking And Administration organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2017, RH309 Train The Trainer organized by Red Hat, Inc
- 2016, LFS151.x: Introduction to Cloud Infrastructure Technologies organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2016, RH255 - Red Hat System Administration III with RHCE Exam organized by B2B certified training partner Red Hat Inc.
- 2016, RH200 - RHCSA Rapid Track Course with RHCSA Exam organized by B2B certified training partner Red Hat Inc.
- 2016, LFS 201 Essentials Of System Administration organized by The Linux Foundation
- 2005, Methods of adult education - elements of andragogy organized by Computer Assisted Education and Information Technology Centre
Certifications
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Architect in Infrastructure
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified OpenShift Architect
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Automation and Integration for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in MultiCluster Management for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.10, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.4 and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes 3.69
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Data Foundation for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.7 and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.7
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Building Resilient Microservices for Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Identity Management for Red Hat Identity Management 4.5
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Virtualization for Red Hat Virtualization 4.3
- LF-fabof9txk9, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Application Development for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Containers and Kubernetes for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.5
- LF-bzeonyhh38, Cloud Foundry Certified Developer
- LF-0zdzia4i6f, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation for Ansible 2.7
- LF-yh6e8b2qbj, Cloud Native Computing Foundation Certified Kubernetes Administrator
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration for OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 and 4.6
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Linux Performance Tunning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Specialist in Enterprise Application Server Administration for JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7
- LF-3n965p4bga, Linux Foundation Certified Engineer
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified Engineer for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- LFCS-1600-0861-0100, Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator
- 160-118-352, Red Hat Certified System Administrator for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Summary of Qualifications
Networks and Operating Systems:
- Very good knowledge of containers based technologies including orchestration solutions (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Rancher)
- Very good backed by years of experience knowledge of Linux family systems (especially based on Gentoo Linux distribution), LAMP-type Internet Server Configurations, Internet mail server configurations and network configurations for enterprise applications (IPTables, Samba, OpenLDAP, Apache, Postfix, Dans Guardian, Squid, Snort, Zabbix, OpenVPN and others).
- Good knowledge of issues related to the implementation and administration of application servers (servlet containers) for J2EE technology: JBoss EAP, WildFly, Tomcat.
- Very good knowledge of the configuration of TCP/IP based networks.
- Experience in configuration of equipment to build connections for wired and wireless local area networks.
Relational Database Management Systems:
- Very good knowledge of RDBMS MySQL
- Good knowledge of RDBMS PostgreSQL
- Good knowledge of RDBMS Firebird
- Basic knowledge of RDBMS Oracle
- Very good knowledge of the structural query languages SQL, PL/SQL
Programming Languages:
- Very good knowledge of Ruby (RoR)
- Knowledge of Go language
- Knowledge of Java, including technologies for building applications with graphical user interface based on SWT, Swing, AWT.
- Good knowledge of technology J2EE: EJB, Hibernate, JSP, JFS principals.
- Knowledge of PHP language
- Basic knowledge of C/C++ language
Technologies to create websites and applications with web interface:
- Good knowledge of creating web services using following standards: HTML 4.1 i 5.0, XHTML 1.1, CSS 2.1 i 3.
- Ability to create websites with dynamic interfaces based on JavaScript and Ajax technology (WEB 2.0). Ability to use in practice JQuery and Prototype based APIs.
- Very good knowledge about Single Sign On/Single Sign Out solutions based on Apereo CAS system (compilation, configuration and integration with various Web Based Applications and Authorization solutions)
- Very good knowledge of the framework to create dynamic websites: Ruby on Rails
- Knowledge of technology to create web services based on Java. Knowledge of standards JSP, JSF ability to use Struts and Spring frameworks.
- Knowledge of technology to create websites based on PHP language. Experience in the use of Smarty tags.
- Ability to implement, create and manage web services built on the basis of CMS systems (CMS Made Simple, WordPress, Joomla and others) and file cloud systems (OwnCloud and others).
CASE systems and information systems development methodologies:
- Good knowledge of reality modeling language UML 2.x.
- Extensive knowledge of software development process and project management methodologies, both structural (CDM, Case Method etc.), objective (RUP etc.) and agile methodologies (Extreme Programing. SCRUM etc.), DevOps and GitOps approach
- Backed by experience knowledge about implementation of CI/CD processes especially in CloudNative environments
- Ability to use design patterns in practice, in particular, the Model View Controller pattern.
- Very good and backed by years of experience knowledge in the implementation and maintenance of project management systems based on Redmine.
Tools and standards for e-Learning:
- Very good and backed by years of experience knowledge in the implementation and maintenance of e-Learning systems based on Moodle LMS
- Backed by practical experience ability to use tools (Moodle, eXe, etc.) and e-Learning standards (SCORM, IMS LTI, etc.) for configuration, creating and conducting the courses on LMS platform.
- Backed by experience ability to conduct training in the practical use of platforms, tools and standards for e-Learning.
Professional Accomplishments
- Co-author of Terms of Reference and member of the team supervising the execution of the contract for the construction of Information Support Systems for: Examinations of Professional Competence and Bank for Examination Tasks. Work completed with acceptance of both systems installed in target environment in Central Examination Commission.
- Main author of source code (RubyOnRails) and compilation of virtual machine (Gentoo Linux) of subsystems for conducting automated standardization of examination tasks and written professional competence computer exams. The subsystems were used in production between years 2011 – 2015.
- Main author of source code (RubyOnRails) for Temporary Information Support System for Entering Examination Sets used by Professional Competence Examinations Department of Central Examination Commission in the years 2011 – 2015.
- Member of the team responsible for successful adjustment, implementation and maintenance of Redmine project management systems used to support Central Examination Commission project VI and VII work.
- Participation in the preparation of documentation and technical specifications for computer labs based on Linux, Microsoft Small Business Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows Vista and Novell operating systems for the needs of the projects implemented by the Ministry of National Education.
- Co-author of training materials for the courses: "Administrator of Internet Lab based on Microsoft SBS Server 2003 and 2003R2" edition Spring 2004, edition Autumn 2005, part 1, 2, 3 and editon Autumn 2007 organized by Computer Assisted Education and Information Technology Centre in Warsaw
- Co-author of training materials for the courses: "Administrator of school multimedia center based on Microsoft Windows operating system" organized by Computer Assisted Education and Information Technology Centre in Warsaw
Foreign Languages:
- English advanced.
- Russian basic
Interests
- IT: OpenSource technologies and Free Software
- Linux: Gentoo Linux distribution
- military history
- basketball