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Work Experience

• Infrastructure & IT Support Specialist, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

  Jan, 2024 - Present

  Administer and maintain critical IT infrastructure across the university operational stack.

  • Administer Active Directory environments and monitor continuous infrastructure health and network telemetry using Zabbix.

  • Automate and manage large-scale OS deployments and system imaging across the network utilizing FogProject.

  • Debug legacy applications (accounting software, signing certificates) and resolve critical system blockers ranging from software patching to hardware-level hardware diagnostics.

  • Ensure long-term operational stability by managing SLAs via OSTicket and maintaining comprehensive technical documentation in BookStack.

Projects Experience

• AI-Augmented Research Discovery Platform (AIRI)

  Feb, 2025 - Present

  Architected and deployed a full-stack web platform and automated data pipeline for an AI research institute, acting as the lead infrastructure engineer.

  • Evolved the platform architecture from static rendering to a fully containerized Next.js, Strapi, and PostgreSQL stack, routed securely through an NGINX reverse proxy.

  • Engineered a zero-downtime, pull-based CI/CD pipeline utilizing Docker Watchtower to bypass strict 'no-sudo' server constraints, enabling automated deployments from GitHub Actions.

  • Managed a decentralized 'fork-and-pull' contribution model to safely review, test, and integrate code from a continuously rotating base of student developers.

  • Designed a self-sustaining Python data pipeline to harvest, reconstruct, and vectorize open-access publication abstracts using local Sentence Transformers and HDBSCAN clustering.

• ESP32 802.11 Deauthentication Detector & Tracker

  Jun, 2026 - Present

  Developing a hardware-based cyber defense tool to detect malicious wireless network disruptions.

  • Programming an ESP32 microcontroller to detect 802.11 deauthentication attacks and alert on network anomalies.

  • Integrating a directional antenna for RF direction finding to geolocate the physical source of attacks; or deploying advanced tactics such as using a normal, low-gain antenna, and one's own body as a radio-absorbing medium to achieve the same geolocation results. Precision of both methods will be compared.

  • Applying hands-on research of SDR, Low-Noise Amplifiers (LNAs), and Bluetooth Frequency-Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS) to isolate signals in the 2.4GHz spectrum.

• Secure Distributed Infrastructure (Homelab)

  Jan, 2023 - Present

  Architected a zero-trust, decentralized personal infrastructure network.

  • Built a secure mesh network across multiple Linux endpoints using Tailscale, enabling resource sharing without exposing public ports.

  • Implemented decentralized, version-controlled backups via Syncthing to distribute critical data across the mesh.

  • Hardened physical data security by enforcing LUKS full-disk encryption across all Linux nodes.

  • Previously engineered a dynamic remote-access VPN tunnel utilizing DDNS for automated IP resolution on legacy hardware.

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