Feb 2021 – Jan 2022 · 11 mos

• Continuing to make the XLINQ innovative banking platform even more reliable and secure, now full time.

Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 · 2 yrs

• Building high resilience, high security, fully automated cloud infrastructures and CI/CD processes for banking systems.
• Used tools: Azure DevOps, Azure WAF, Azure Kubernetes, Azure PostgreSQL, Network Security Groups, Azure Vault, Azure Blob Storage, Azure HDINsight, Sonarqube, Aquasec, Checkmarx, Azure DDoS protection, Azure Traffic Manager, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Firewall, Python.

Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 · 4 mos · Cluj-Napoca, Romania

• Establishing a framework for infrastructure automation enforcing standards, best practices and security for a hybrid infrastructure of public cloud on AWS, bare metal, private cloud on OpenStack and containers on Kubernetes and Mesos.
• Writing infrastructure automation tools using Python, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Go, Bash.
• Building the SRE team.
• Sharing the management of a multimillion infrastructure budget.

Sep 2017 – Aug 2018 · 11 mos · Cluj-Napoca, Romania

• Main activities:
• I was in charge for infrastructure architecture design and implementation of a project storing more than 500 TB of data and processing of the images with image recognition and map matching algorithms. Using on premise DC/OS to orchestrate services deployment.
• Automation of provisioning, setup and deployment processes by using technologies like Ansible, Bash, Groovy, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesosphere, AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Python, Golang.
• Leading the Telenav EU IT team to the integration into the company wide systems operations effort.
• Reshaping the infrastructure costs of the legacy systems by moving to virtualization and containers. Used technologies: KVM, LXCD, Docker, Kubernetes.
• Designing cost efficient infrastructure for new systems.
• Working in tight relation with development teams to automate the software development life cycle.
• Hands-on approach in automation, security and day-to-day operational tasks.

Aug 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 1 mo · Cluj-Napoca, Romania

• Main activities:
• Leading the Telenav EU IT team.
• Infrastructure architecture design, budgeting and implementation.
• Defining and implementing the processes to facilitate the software development and collaboration between teams.
• Automation of provisioning, setup and deployment processes.

Oct 2015 – Aug 2016 · 10 mos · Cluj-Napoca, Romania

• Virtualization, private and public clouds, containers architecture design and implementation.
• Automation of systems setup and deployment.

Jan 2014 – Oct 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos · Chișinău, Moldova

• Leading the Yopeso Operations department.
• System architecture design, systems decomposition and tasks delegation within project implementation.
• Implementation of HA, load balanced, distributed systems, clouds.
• Automation of the continuous delivery workflow.
• Procedures and policies development and implementation.

Aug 2010 – Jan 2014 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Chișinău, Moldova

• Leading a team of system engineers.
• Working processes development and implementation.
• Maintenance of the documentation up to date.
• Design and implementation of high load systems for databases, cache systems, distributed network file systems, load balancers, auto scaling and web clusters.
• Implementation of ITIL best practices.

Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 · 1 yr · Chișinău, Moldova

• Infrastructure building and support

Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 · 0 mo · Chișinău, Moldova

• Server maintenance

Sep 2008 – Jun 2010 · 1 yr 9 mos · Chișinău, Moldova

• Hosting administration and clients support.