Jeff Knurek
About Jeff Knurek
Jeff Knurek is the Cloud Infrastructure Manager at iprice group in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with extensive experience in DevOps and software engineering roles across various companies.
Company
Jeff Knurek is currently working at iprice group as a Cloud Infrastructure Manager. He is based in Kuala Lumpur, Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Title
Jeff Knurek holds the title of Cloud Infrastructure Manager at iprice group. His role involves overseeing and managing cloud infrastructure operations.
Education and Expertise
Jeff Knurek holds a Master of Science degree in Intelligent Software Systems from Blekinge Institute of Technology, completed between 2005 and 2007. Additionally, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering from the University of Advancing Technology, completed between 2002 and 2004. He also has Associates in Arts from both Holyoke Community College in Electronic Media and Springfield Technical Community College in General Studies.
Professional Background
Jeff Knurek has an extensive professional background in various engineering roles. He worked as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Clevertech (2020-2021, Remote), Continuous Delivery Engineer at travel audience GmbH - An Amadeus Company (2017-2020, Berlin), Sr QA Automation Engineer at ProfitBricks (2015-2017, Berlin), Sr Automation Engineer at Symphony Commerce (2014-2015, San Francisco Bay Area), QA Engineer at DocuSign, Inc. (2012-2014, San Francisco Bay Area), and as a Web Developer at CouchSurfing International, MindTouch, Inc., Corporate Fleet Control Pty Ltd, RailCorp, Tour Software, and Ericsson, among other positions.
Achievements
Jeff Knurek led the migration to Kanban methodology, which resulted in a faster workflow for the engineering team. He organizes monthly meetings to evaluate and implement cost optimization strategies. He advocates for 'DevOps culture' across engineering teams to enhance collaboration and efficiency. Additionally, he is responsible for managing relationships with various cloud and infrastructure providers. He also drives the process for incident management, including conducting blameless postmortems to improve future responses.