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Aviv Hamoy

DevOps EngineerCommunity & Technical Operations

I build systems, operate communities and help technical teams turn requirements into working solutions.

View my work GitHub

The short version

CommunityOperations

DevOpsEngineering

CloudInfrastructure

DeveloperAdvisory

Platforms

  • FiveM
  • Garry's Mod
  • ARMA 3
  • Counter-Strike
  • Discord
  • + more

Technologies

  • AWS
  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Linux
  • Python
  • Ansible
  • CI/CD

CI/CD — Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

My story

I started by operating communities.

Community operations and administration, staff work, rules and procedures — the day-to-day of keeping a community running.

Then I started working with the people building them.

Community owners and development teams. Player feedback became requirements, and requirements became conversations with the people writing the code.

Community problems became technical problems.

Operational problems, escalations and the systems underneath the community — someone had to understand how they actually worked.

That eventually becameDevOps.

Where it started

Platforms, communities and roles — the operational career that came before the engineering one.

  1. Garry's Mod

  2. FiveM

  3. ARMA 3

  4. Counter-Strike / CS:GO

  5. Discord communities

  6. DevOps — Training, Labs & Projects

    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • Kubernetes
    • Linux
    • Automation

    Cloud, Linux, automation and infrastructure work through Red Hat training, hands-on labs and self-directed projects.

The communities

The platforms where the community and operations experience was built. More communities to follow.

FiveM

Grand Theft Auto V

Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod

ARMA 3

ARMA 3

Counter-Strike / CS:GO

Counter-Strike

Discord

Cross-platform communities

Between players and developers

Turning raw community feedback into clear, prioritized requirements for the development teams building the game.
  1. Player Feedback

    Reports, requests and issues from the community

  2. Community Staff

    First-line triage by the staff team

  3. Requirements

    Community needs and feedback turned into clear requirements

  4. Aviv

    Translation layer between the community and the builders

  5. Development Team

    Working directly with developers and community owners

  6. Testing

    Testing and feedback on changes before they went out

  7. Release

    Changes released back to staff and players

  8. Player Feedback

    The loop starts again

Responsibilities

  • Working with community owners
  • Advising development teams
  • Translating community needs
  • Player feedback
  • Requirements
  • Testing / feedback on changes
  • Escalations

Running the operation

Staff Leadership

  • Staff leadership
  • Staff hierarchy & management
  • Community administration

Community Operations

  • Community operations
  • Community management
  • Community rules & procedures

Escalations & Problem Solving

  • Operational problem solving
  • Escalations
  • Player & staff issues

Development Advisory

  • Working with community owners
  • Advising development teams
  • Translating needs & player feedback
  • Testing & feedback on changes

From communities to DevOps

Communities need systems. Systems need infrastructure. Infrastructure needs automation. DevOps.

DEVOPS CLOUD PLATFORM AUTOMATION

Community operations led into infrastructure. Today the work is AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker and automation.

  1. Code
  2. Git
  3. CI/CDCI/CD — Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery
  4. Docker
  5. Kubernetes
  6. AWS
  7. Monitoring

Infrastructure, as built

Hands-on projects across AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker and automation.

Cloud tooling

AWS Platform CLI

Self-directed learning project

A Python command-line tool for managing AWS resources — EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances, S3 (Simple Storage Service) buckets and Route 53 DNS records — through one interface built on Boto3, applying ownership and project tags plus restrictions to everything it creates.

PythonBoto3AWSEC2S3Route 53
Case studyGitHub
$ python main.py ec2 list
 
INSTANCE aviv-test-1
STATE running
REGION us-east-1

IaC — Infrastructure as Code

Terraform Self-Learn

Self-directed learning project

An AWS environment defined with Terraform: a VPC (Virtual Private Cloud) with a public subnet and a second database subnet, EC2, security groups, a database subnet group, RDS (Relational Database Service) and S3 — all described as code.

TerraformAWSVPCEC2RDSS3
Case studyGitHub
Architecture diagram
AWS
├── VPC
│   ├── Public Subnet
│   │   └── EC2
│   └── Database Subnet
│       └── RDS
├── DB Subnet Group
├── Security Groups
└── S3

Container orchestration

Kubernetes WordPress Workshop

Hands-on workshop project

WordPress and MariaDB deployed on Kubernetes with Helm, running behind an NGINX Ingress on Minikube, with Prometheus and Grafana providing monitoring.

KubernetesMinikubeDockerHelmNGINX IngressWordPressMariaDBPrometheusGrafana
Case study
Architecture diagram
Minikube Cluster
  ↓
NGINX Ingress
  ↓
WordPress
  ↓
MariaDB

Prometheus → Grafana

Founder & Developer

SetOps

Product I founded and develop

A building operations and maintenance SaaS covering buildings, floors, rooms and areas, equipment and critical systems, service calls, contractors, tenants, guards, reporting, permissions and billing — built and operated end to end.

ReactViteFastAPIPythonPostgreSQLDocker ComposeNginxPrometheusGrafana
Case study
Architecture diagram
React + Vite
  ↓
Nginx
  ↓
FastAPI (Python)
  ↓
PostgreSQL

Prometheus → Grafana

The stack

Cloud

  • AWS

Containers

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • Helm

Infrastructure as Code

IaC

  • Terraform

Automation

  • Python
  • Bash
  • Ansible

CI/CD

Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery

  • Jenkins
  • GitHub Actions

Monitoring

  • Prometheus
  • Grafana

Operating Systems

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  • Ubuntu Linux

Version Control

  • Git
  • GitHub

Training

Completed Red Hat training courses. Certification exams are listed only once passed.

Red Hat

RH294

Course completed

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Automation with Ansible

Red Hat training covering automation of Linux system administration with Ansible — playbooks, roles and automating administration tasks across systems.

Red Hat

RH134

Course completed

Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat training covering Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration.

Experience

The condensed record.

  1. Current

    Founder & Developer

    SetOps — Building Operations & Maintenance SaaS

    Building and operating a building operations and maintenance platform end to end — product, back end, front end, infrastructure and monitoring.

    • Designed the operational model: buildings, floors, rooms and areas, equipment and critical systems
    • Built service call, contractor, tenant and guard workflows with role and company based permissions
    • Runs the platform on Docker Compose behind Nginx, with Prometheus and Grafana monitoring
    • React
    • Vite
    • FastAPI
    • Python
    • PostgreSQL
    • Docker Compose
    • Nginx
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana

  2. Ongoing

    DevOps — Training, Labs & Hands-On Projects

    Self-directed · Red Hat training

    Cloud, Linux, automation and infrastructure work built through Red Hat training, hands-on labs and self-directed projects rather than an employment record.

    • Red Hat training: RH294 (Linux automation with Ansible) and RH134 (Red Hat Enterprise Linux)
    • AWS work with Python and Boto3, and infrastructure defined with Terraform
    • Kubernetes deployment and monitoring through hands-on workshop projects
    • AWS
    • Terraform
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • Linux
    • Python
    • Ansible

  3. Community & Technical Operations

    Gaming communities — FiveM, Garry's Mod, ARMA 3, Counter-Strike, Discord

    Years of community operations and administration across gaming platforms — staff leadership, working with community owners, and advising the development teams building those platforms.

    • Community operations, administration and staff leadership within staff hierarchies
    • Worked directly with community owners and development teams
    • Translated community needs and player feedback into requirements, and tested changes
    • Handled escalations, player and staff issues, and operational problem solving
    • FiveM
    • Garry's Mod
    • ARMA 3
    • Counter-Strike
    • Discord

Aviv Hamoy

DevOps Engineer

Community & Technical Operations

Tel Aviv, Israel

People. Platforms. Infrastructure.

I spent years working in gaming communities — community operations and administration, staff leadership, and working directly with community owners and the development teams building the platforms. Translating community needs and player feedback into clear requirements, testing changes and solving operational problems pulled me toward the systems underneath, and that led into DevOps. I now work with AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker and Linux through Red Hat training, hands-on labs and self-directed infrastructure projects, and I build and run SetOps, a building operations and maintenance product, end to end.

Let’s buildSomething.

Available for DevOps, Cloud, Platform Engineering and Technical Operations opportunities.