George R. NICA

Co-Founder

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania25 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in cloud and DevOps.
Founder of multiple startups in SaaS and cloud consulting.
Expertise in AWS, Kubernetes, and Go programming.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and DevOps expert with extensive experience in SaaS and infrastructure management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDevops

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesGo (Programming Language)AWS LambdaServerless FrameworkAWSDockerTerraformAnsibleLinuxSystem AdministrationNetwork AdministrationCisco TechnologiesVPNSecurity

About

"Stop fretting about the past. Define yourself in the present and you will own the future". I started with networking in 2001, continued with managed services (and later DevOps) in my first company, Infinium, in 2004. Started Centrix, a SaaS business (helpdesk) in the US in 2015. It flopped. Tried my hand again, in 2021, with Otium, pushing curator-vetted leisure time options. That one flopped, too. However, Infinium, is still on the market, providing cloud consulting and DevOps services. I've had my share of leading a software development team and am continuing helping startups as a Cloud Architect. Been doing it since 2004. I aim to sloooowly transition to software development. I am familiar with Python, Javascript and mostly write Go code nowadays. However, the bulk of my activity is still in DevOps for the time being. "Software is eating the world" - Marc Andreessen, 2011

Experience

Otium

CTO, Co-founder

Jun 2021 – Nov 2021 · 5 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

We believe that people that would enjoy learning a new craft are overwhelmed by choices of what to read, watch or buy in their learning process.
Our mission is to build convenience of accessing the existing content for self-development, so the enjoyment of real-life activities will enhance our lives, ultimately making us feel better with ourselves.
We want to do that by employing AI capabilities that can be put to good use for creating new anchors in our daily lives.

Centrix

CTO, Project Lead, Co-founder

Feb 2015 – May 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · Delaware, United States

Centrix develped a helpdesk SaaS, written in Ruby on Rails with a MongoDB backend. It was a team effort of the founding team that also employed developers from India and Russia. Fully remote work, used an agile approach to development and, eating our own dogfood, we have been using that helpdesk solution ever since in two other companies. Centrix, the company, flopped, died right before go to market. Centrix, the product, became Cortex and continues to be used.

Toastmasters bucuresti club stepout

VP of Education

Nov 2011 – May 2012 · 6 mos · Bucharest, Romania

Involved in organizing club meetings
Mentoring fellow Toastmasters club members
Dedicated to helping improving public speaking skills

Infinium

3 roles

Cloud Solutions Architect | AWS, Kubernetes, Go

Promoted

Sep 2011 – Present · 14 yrs 6 mos

Migrating legacy solutions and setting up new ones in the cloud. Specialized on AWS. Buzz: DevOps. EKS, ECS, ECR, Codebuild, EC2, RDS, DynamoDB, IAM, ACM, S3, SES, SNS, Route53, CloudWatch. Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet. CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, ELK, Logstash. Bash. Golang. Python. HTTPS, SMTP, IMAP. Others. Going back 24 years.

Amazon Web Services (AWS)KubernetesGo (Programming Language)AWS LambdaServerless FrameworkCloud Computing+1

Ops Lead

Sep 2004 – Sep 2011 · 7 yrs

Leading the web operations team. Managing the day to day operations, from monitoring to backups and disaster recovery measures.

Founder

Jan 2004 – Present · 22 yrs 2 mos

Romania data systems

2 roles

Team Coordinator - Level 3 Support

Aug 2003 – Sep 2004 · 1 yr 1 mo

Coordinating the deployment of key customer networking solutions, nationwide (mainly Virtual Private Networks). On call support for key customers.
Also coordinating activity for a team of 6. Main team activities included trouble ticket solving, customer interaction, system administration and network maintenance.

Network Engineer

Oct 2001 – Aug 2003 · 1 yr 10 mos

Trouble ticket solving, customer interaction, deployment of custom networking solutions, system administration, network maintenance.

Travel house international

Network Administrator

Oct 2000 – Sep 2001 · 11 mos

Server farm administration and maintenance. Handling in-house support calls. System deployment, hardware and software maintenance. Web site development and administration.