Vladimir Kovacik is a Senior SRE at Activision, working from Vancouver, Canada. He’s worked in a variety of roles during his 20 years of experience. Vlad started as a software engineer in Slovakia, then transitioned to a systems engineer. Later he worked as a cloud engineer in Ireland. During his five years at Activision, Vlad has been working on multiple automation projects to improve deployment agility, monitoring, and resiliency. He played a key role in helping Activision teams manage their services on a massive scale. Recently, he helped to migrate a critical business platform with a large database footprint to Vitess.