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• Platform and Backend Engineer, Bosch Service Solutions S.R.L

  Jan, 2025 - Present

  Take part in the creation of an Agentic AI product from the inception to production-ready releases

  • Design IaC architecture based on Azure services (Azure Container Apps, Flexible Postgresql, MongoDB, etc.) and automate deployment with Terraform & GH actions

  • Design and implement backend services for agentic-AI project using Python (FastAPI, Pydantic, SqlModel, Autogen)

  • Deliver major features (authN, component serialization, integration tests etc.) with full lifecycle ownership

  • Review Python code, identifying code smells, bugs & design issues

  • Build local development environment automation based on kind/minukube, skaffold, helm & docker4deskop

  • Support on a daily basis the activity of the entire team via knowledge sharing, in-depth troubleshooting and performance optimizations

  • Prepare migration from Azure Container Apps to AKS

• DevOps Engineer, Bosch Service Solutions S.R.L

  Sep, 2021 - Jan, 20253 years 3 months

  Design, implement and maintain medium-scale Kubernetes production environments with focus on reliability, performance, and operational excellence for Nexeed IAS platform

  • Design and operate medium-scale Kubernetes clusters across multiple environments (AKS, Rancher RKE2, k3s, OpenShift) serving production workloads with 99.9% uptime SLA

  • Architect and deploy cloud-native solutions on Azure with focus on scalability, achieving 35% cost optimization through autoscaling, right-sizing and resource optimization

  • Engineer deployment automation reducing deployment time from 4 hours to 10 minutes using Helm3 advanced features and Kubernetes operators

  • Build CI/CD pipelines for container image lifecycle including vulnerability scanning (FossID, Mend, Trivy) and SBOM generation ensuring security compliance

  • Practice sustainable incident response with on-call rotation, troubleshooting application and infrastructure issues across target Kubernetes environments

  • Identify and implement 12 process improvements eliminating 90% of manual operational tasks through automation and scripting

  • Collaborate with development teams providing system design consulting, capacity planning, and performance optimization recommendations

  • Contribute to infrastructure automation using Infrastructure as Code principles, Terraform and configuration management tools

• Senior Cloud Developer, Orange Labs for Networks

  Dec, 2018 - Sep, 20212 years 9 months

  Build and maintain large-scale OpenStack private cloud distribution with focus on automation, reliability, and operational efficiency

  • Design and implement automation framework for OpenStack-based private cloud deployment and lifecycle management based on k8s, increasing automation coverage from 60% to 95%

  • Engineer Kubernetes operators for infrastructure components (libvirtd)

  • Build CI/CD pipelines achieving continuous delivery milestone for infrastructure automation code, enabling rapid iteration and deployment velocity

  • Architect deployment solutions using Helm charts for OpenStack components

  • Implement validation framework based on JSON schema for Ansible configuration, reducing configuration errors by 75%, improving system reliability and reducing incident response time

  • Design and deploy security solutions implementing Consul ACL and Vault auth agent achieving 100% secrets management compliance

  • Develop nested virtualization solution deploying OpenStack on OpenStack VMs

  • Build automation tools using GitLab webhooks reducing manual code review time by 25% and improving development workflow efficiency

  • Contribute to open-source kanod project

• IT Solutions Architect, Orange Labs for Services

  Oct, 2017 - Dec, 20181 year 2 months

  Contribute to the development of an OpenStack-based private cloud distribution with focus on automation, reliability, and operational efficiency

  • Build self-service automation platform using Rundeck, Kubernetes, Terraform and Ansible enabling 10+ developers to provision resources in under 30 minutes

  • Design and implement testing framework for OpenStack clouds using Python and Terraform ensuring infrastructure reliability before production deployment

  • Engineer self-service workflows reducing tenant provisioning time from 2 days to 4 hours through automation and Infrastructure as Code

  • Evaluate and integrate open-source technologies (Skydive, Kubespray, LOCI, OpenStack Helm etc.) successfully deploying 4 into production from 10 evaluated

  • Conduct technical workshops and training sessions for 25+ engineers achieving 95% satisfaction score and improving team capabilities

  • Implement customizations for CloudFoundry application releases

• Infrastructure Solutions Architect, Orange Services S.R.L.

  Dec, 2013 - Oct, 20173 years 10 months

  Design and implement large-scale automation framework and configuration management infrastructure for enterprise systems

  • Architect and implement enterprise automation framework based on Puppet, Foreman and Rundeck automating 80% of infrastructure provisioning and reducing manual effort by 60%

  • Design blue-green deployment pipeline using Rundeck, Ansible and Consul reducing application downtime from twenty minutes to seconds

  • Build storage inventory and performance monitoring solution using Rundeck, Sidekiq and Superset managing Orange Romania storage assets with 90% accuracy

  • Pioneer Docker and Rancher container technology adoption integrating containerization into existing automation framework

  • Implement SSH key distribution engine using Puppet and Active Directory ensuring secure access management at scale

  • Establish storage performance testing methodology and capacity planning processes

  • Conduct 10+ training sessions for 80+ engineers achieving 4.5/5 satisfaction score and improving organizational technical capabilities

• Infrastructure Operations Manager, Orange Romania S.A.

  Aug, 2011 - Dec, 20132 years 4 months

  Lead Infrastructure Operations team with focus on standardization, efficiency and cost optimization

  • Lead heterogeneous team implementing common working standards and operational practices reducing task completion variance by 50%

  • Drive server virtualization initiative improving virtualization ratio from 40% to 85% enhancing resource utilization and operational efficiency

  • Implement capacity management processes ensuring optimal resource allocation based on performance requirements

  • Achieve six-figure euro annual cost savings through vendor negotiations and strategic RFQ management

  • Optimize licensing costs eliminating five-figure euros in annual expenses through license optimization and unused support discontinuation

  • Modernize infrastructure refreshing obsolete technologies and improving overall system reliability

• Infrastructure Solutions Architect, Orange Romania S.A.

  Jun, 2008 - Aug, 20113 years 2 months

  Provide technical leadership for server and storage infrastructure design and implementation

  • Design and implement secure remote access solution using Juniper SA serving franchise network

  • Deploy HP Server Automation implementing early automation practices and reducing manual operational overhead

  • Develop ITIL-compliant web forms integrated with OTRS improving service management workflows

  • Optimize EMC storage infrastructure performance through continuous analysis and tuning

  • Analyze workload patterns and recommend virtualization candidates optimizing infrastructure utilization

• CRM Team Leader, Orange Romania S.A.

  Apr, 2001 - Jun, 20087 years 2 months

  Lead and participate in the activities of a team of application, database and system admins

  • Lead CRM Operations Team to maintain & evolve CRM infrastructure & services- servers, storage, databases and applications

  • Consolidate applications on HP/Compaq RISC mid-range & high-end systems

  • Implement infrastructure for all new major billing and telco provisioning systems including disaster recovery, remote replication and backup

  • Increase average systems utilization with HW/SW partitioning and virtualization

  • Manage storage and SAN equipments (EMC & Brocade)

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