Profile
Dynamic and results-driven IT professional with extensive experience spanning cybersecurity, DevOps, containers, Kubernetes, cloud architectures, networking, programming, virtualization, and Linux system engineering.
Proven track record of success in delivering robust solutions and optimizing IT infrastructure to meet diverse business needs.
I posses strong technical acumen complemented by exceptional interpersonal skills, facilitating effective collaboration with clients and stakeholders. Known for problem-solving prowess, technical consultation, and delivering customer-centric solutions. Renowned for meticulous attention to detail and effective communication of complex technical concepts.
Acknowledged for effective communication abilities and exceptional interpersonal skills, adept at collaborating with diverse teams to drive organizational progress and growth. Passionate about leveraging technical expertise to empower individuals and organizations, striving to make a meaningful difference in organizations.
Experience
DevSecOps Architecture with CTO/CIO responsibilities at Emorya Finance
From Jun 2022 to Jul 2024 at Emorya Finance, Dubai (Remote)
- Led team in spearheading infrastructure and blockchain development initiatives, driving innovation, and ensuring seamless integration of innovative technologies to optimize system performance and enhance operational efficiency.
- Implemented a Zero Trust security model enhancing cybersecurity by strictly verifying each user and device, reducing the risk of data breaches, and ensuring robust protection across the organization's network.
- Orchestrated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments utilizing Terragrunt and Terraform, automating provisioning processes, enhancing scalability, and ensuring consistent infrastructure configuration across multiple environments, resulting in improved operational efficiency and reduced deployment errors.
- Revamped the existing tokenomics model by addressing and solving key technological implementation challenges, leading to enhanced system efficiency and improved stakeholder value.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to seamlessly integrate security measures into the software development lifecycle.
- Strategically optimized infrastructure costs from the startup phase, reducing expenses through meticulous analysis, resource consolidation, and implementation of cost-effective solutions.
- Optimally managed a hybrid infrastructure utilizing both Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Cloudflare, ensuring seamless integration, enhanced security, and optimized performance across cloud services.
- Evaluated security events with meticulous attention to detail, determining their impact on system integrity, confidentiality, and availability, and implemented timely corrective measures to mitigate potential risks effectively.
- Directed comprehensive disaster recovery planning efforts for diverse operating systems, ensuring seamless preparedness and operational continuity in the event of disruptions.
- Developed and prepared smart contracts for a multichain setup using Solidity, enabling interoperability and efficient transactions across multiple blockchain networks.
- Led the seamless and successful migration of infrastructure from AWS to GCP, orchestrating a comprehensive transition strategy encompassing resource assessment, planning, and execution. Achieved minimal downtime, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery while optimizing costs and leveraging GCP's advanced capabilities to enhance performance and scalability.
- Built and deployed comprehensive service infrastructure leveraging Docker containers, Github Actions, and a suite of GCP services including Cloud Run, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), and Cloud Functions. Streamlined development workflows, optimized resource utilization, and ensured high availability and scalability.
- Trained and mentored a junior developer from scratch within three months, transforming them from having zero IT knowledge to being fully capable of providing customer support, creating PRs in GitHub for various services, including Docusaurus public docs, ReactJS projects, and blockchain interactions.
- Designed and implemented a robust service infrastructure utilizing a suite of GCP services including Domains, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Redis, and IAM. Prioritized high-availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling mechanisms, ensuring optimal performance, reliability, and resilience to meet stringent service level requirements and accommodate dynamic workload demands.
- Engineered and deployed Smart Contracts utilizing the Rust programming language for MultiversX Blockchain.
- Contributed to comprehensive smart contract and mobile app development by coding alongside the smart contract team on projects encompassing Hyperdeflation, Vesting, Staking, NFTs, LPs, and tokenomics. Ensured proper CI/CD and secrets management throughout development phases.
- Consulted and led the implementation of an exchange dApp for seamless token migration from BSC to MultiversX, enhancing interoperability. Advised on and developed main dApps for users and investors, optimizing interactions and user experience, boosting platform success.
- Led NFT implementation and deployment, integrating automated CI/CD processes to streamline workflows, enhance efficiency, and maintain quality standards and timelines.
- Contributed to frontend and backend development by implementing blockchain communications with smart contracts in ReactJS and NextJS. Provided website modifications to enhance user experience and developed backend solutions using Python Django, PHP Laravel, and Rust.
- Drove the ongoing development of infrastructure based on Kubernetes and GitOps methodologies, fostering continuous improvement and adherence to best practices.
- Provided cross-team development support by assisting all teams, including marketing, with coding tasks and solutions, ensuring seamless integration and collaboration across departments.
DevSecOps Engineer at EPAM Systems
From Oct 2023 to Feb 2024 at EPAM Systems, Bucharest (Remote)
- Led the development and maintenance of a diverse range of software solutions focused on data ingestion, processing, and visualization, culminating in the creation of intuitive dashboards. Empowered stakeholders with actionable insights for data-driven decision-making and facilitated operational monitoring. Ensured the reliability, scalability, and performance of these solutions to meet evolving business needs and drive organizational success.
- Presented complex technical information clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences, adapting communication styles to accommodate varying levels of understanding, and effectively addressing concerns and questions.
- Championed the design and implementation of new infrastructure components, orchestrating seamless integration and scalability to accommodate evolving business requirements.
- Engaged in strategic collaboration with executive leadership to align security initiatives with overarching business goals and strategies.
- Spearheaded larger-scale cloud and container migrations, leveraging expertise in migration strategies to ensure minimal disruption and maximum efficiency.
- Empowered clients to harness the full potential of GitLab/GitHub by providing comprehensive setup, disaster recovery solutions, and optimizing usage practices, thereby enhancing collaboration, security, and productivity across teams.
- Engineered and deployed fully automated CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions for EKS setup, coupled with ArgoCD installation. Architected an end-to-end service infrastructure incorporating GitOps practices within a micro-services architecture, optimizing deployment workflows for scalability, reliability, and rapid iteration cycles, thus fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.
- Implemented a robust password manager solution on AWS, ensuring secure storage and management of sensitive credentials company-wide.
Software Engineer at ShapeHost
From Oct 2022 to Dec 2022 at ShapeHost, New Jersey (Remote)
- Designed and developed User Data scripts in BASH for production environments, facilitating streamlined application deployment and configuration for end users. These scripts empowered users to implement various applications with a single click, tailored to their operating system and version. Automated deployment scenarios included LAMP/LEMP stacks, Wordpress, GitLab, Minecraft, Steam, OpenLiteSpeed, Docker, and Kubernetes setups, enhancing user experience and accelerating time-to-market for new services.
- Led cloud stack deployments using Terraform for testing purposes, orchestrating the creation and configuration of infrastructure resources across multiple cloud providers.
- Automated deployment workflows through CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, streamlining the continuous integration and delivery process. Leveraged GitHub workflows to automate testing, build, and deployment stages, improving efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
- Implemented server applications efficiently utilizing Ansible, automating the provisioning and configuration management of servers. Employed Ansible playbooks to ensure consistent and reliable deployment of server applications, enhancing operational efficiency and reducing configuration drift.
- Demonstrated strong communication skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and convey complex security concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Worked closely with development teams to enhance application performance and reliability through collaborative efforts. Utilize expertise in system architecture, performance tuning, and troubleshooting to identify bottlenecks, optimize code, and implement best practices.
DevSecOps Engineer at LUKSO | Agency for the Future
From May 2022 to Jul 2023 at LUKSO | Agency for the Future, Berlin (Remote)
- Implemented Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployments utilizing Terragrunt, Terraform, and Packer, automating provisioning and configuration processes for cloud infrastructure and applications.
- Designed and orchestrated the construction and deployment of a comprehensive service infrastructure utilizing Docker containers, GitHub Actions, and a suite of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Google Domains, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Redis, and IAM. Emphasized high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling mechanisms to ensure optimal performance and reliability.
- Implemented full automation of LUKSO blockchain deployments across development networks, test environments, and main networks using Ansible.
- Performed troubleshooting and rigorous testing of Ethereum fork blockchain parameters to ensure optimal performance, reliability, and security.
- Led the auditing and securing of cloud infrastructure and container workloads, employing best practices and industry standards to mitigate security risks and ensure compliance.
- Implemented robust monitoring solutions for cloud infrastructure utilizing Prometheus and Grafana, enabling real-time visibility into system performance and health metrics.
DevSecOps Consultant at DevWire Technology
From Oct 2021 to Oct 2023 at DevWire Technology, Cluj-Napoca (Remote)
- Provisioned a highly scalable and easily manageable Kubernetes infrastructure on Amazon AWS using EKS, employing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles with Terraform.
- Led the design and implementation of new and additional infrastructure solutions, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and scalability requirements.
- Facilitated larger-scale cloud and container migrations, orchestrating seamless transitions to modern cloud-native environments.
- Empowered clients to harness the full potential of GitLab/GitHub by providing end-to-end support, including setup, disaster recovery planning, and usage optimization.
- Built and deployed fully automated CI/CD pipelines utilizing GitHub Actions for EKS setup, seamlessly integrating ArgoCD for continuous deployment and GitOps practices.
- Designed a comprehensive service architecture and pipelines integrating GitOps practices within a microservices architecture framework.
- Collaborated with clients and stakeholders to assess their needs and expectations, providing timely and effective support to resolve inquiries, complaints, and issues, fostering positive working relationships, and ensuring customer satisfaction.
- Deployed a centralized code base environment using GitLab within Docker containers on AWS, optimizing collaboration and version control for development teams.
- Deployed a universally available proxy solution leveraging HAProxy and Squid, ensuring robust performance and reliability for network traffic management.
Senior Linux/Unix System Engineer at Atos
From Jun 2021 to Oct 2021 at Atos, Timişoara
- Conducted comprehensive patching analysis and remediation utilizing Satellite, Spacewalk, and BSA (BMC Server Automation).
- Scripted and automated infrastructure operations at a holistic level using BASH, facilitating collaboration across multiple teams.
- Created universally available OpenSUSE and RHEL Heartbeat Clusters specifically tailored for SAP applications, ensuring continuous uptime and resilience.
- Enforced adherence to industry standards, regulations, and best practices to ensure robust security posture and compliance readiness. Conduct routine security assessments and audits, employing comprehensive methodologies to pinpoint vulnerabilities and implement timely remediation measures, safeguarding sensitive data and mitigating security risks effectively.
- Proficiently managed troubleshooting duties for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, OpenSUSE, and Solaris servers, swiftly diagnosing and resolving a wide array of technical issues to ensure uninterrupted service delivery.
- Spearheaded storage and backup implementation projects, configuring and managing NetApp and NetBackup solutions. Demonstrated expertise in LVM partitioning to optimize storage resources and facilitate efficient data management across enterprise environments.
- Managed VMware vSphere configurations and troubleshooting activities, including NIC teaming, vSwitch configuration, iSCSI and NFS datastore connections, and root cause analysis.
- Conducted console troubleshooting and performance analysis, leveraging tools like iDRAC, iLO, and VMware for virtual server environments. Expertly diagnosed and resolved software layer issues, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of server infrastructure.
Technical Engineer at Syneto
From Apr 2020 to Apr 2021 at Syneto, Timişoara
- Proficiently troubleshooted and maintained over one thousand Solaris Servers, demonstrating extensive expertise in Linux/Unix server environments. Utilized advanced troubleshooting techniques to promptly identify and resolve issues, ensuring optimal performance and reliability of server infrastructure.
- Configured and managed storage and backup solutions, including Unix ZFS snapshots on shares or datastores and RAID configurations. Implemented efficient backup strategies to safeguard critical data and facilitate disaster recovery, enhancing data protection and availability across enterprise environments.
- Managed VMware vSphere configurations and troubleshooting tasks, including NIC teaming, vSwitch configuration, iSCSI and NFS datastore connections, and root cause analysis. Optimized vCPU and RAM allocation to maximize virtual machine performance and resource utilization, ensuring smooth operation of virtualized environments.
- Orchestrated networking configurations to enable seamless communication between Active Directory and Unix/Linux systems, utilizing protocols such as SMB, AFP, and NFS. Implemented link aggregators, IP tables, DNS configuration, and VPN connectivity to optimize network performance, security, and reliability.
- Conducted hardware troubleshooting and performance analysis, utilizing tools like iDRAC, IPMI, and built-in Solaris tools to diagnose and resolve hardware issues at the software layer.
- Developed Bash scripts, PHP, and Python scripts for automating daily tasks and problem resolution, streamlining operations, and improving efficiency across the IT infrastructure.
- Proficient in implementing incident response procedures and best practices, demonstrating expertise in effectively mitigating security incidents to minimize impact and ensure rapid recovery. Skilled in utilizing vulnerability management tools and practices to proactively identify, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities across diverse environments.
Cyber Security Engineer at Atos
From Aug 2017 to Apr 2020 at Atos, Timişoara
- Effectively troubleshooted and maintained 1000+ Linux Servers and workstations, demonstrating comprehensive expertise in Linux-based environments.
- Provided expert troubleshooting support for 400+ Windows Servers and workstations, diagnosing and resolving a wide range of technical issues to minimize downtime and enhance productivity across the organization.
- Conducted malware cleanup on over seven hundred systems, implementing thorough scanning and removal procedures to eradicate malicious software and protect sensitive data and assets from security threats.
- Developed & updated 40+ tools with Python, Bash, PowerShell, and WebDev, enhancing IT infrastructure efficiency and automation.
- Created and updated over 15 documentation and procedures to document troubleshooting processes, best practices, and standard operating procedures, ensuring consistency and knowledge sharing across the organization.
- Analyzed multiple phishing emails to identify and mitigate potential security threats, enhancing the organization's resilience against phishing attacks and cybersecurity breaches.
- Conducted daily backup operations for storage servers to safeguard critical data and ensure data integrity and availability in the event of data loss or system failure.
- Generated daily reports to provide insights into system performance, security, and compliance metrics, enabling informed decision-making and proactive management of IT resources.
Certifications
- CKA: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (with link)
- KCNA: Kubernetes and Cloud Native Associate (with link)
- Associate Cloud Engineer (with link)
- MCSA-410: Installing and Configuring Windows Server 2012 (with link)
Skills
Scripting
- Bash
- Python
- Powershell
Coding
- Rust
- JavaScript
- ReactJS
Infrastructure as Code
- Terraform
- Terragrunt
CI/CD
- Gitlab
- Github Actions
- Bitbucket
Microservices
- Docker
- Kubernetes
Container Runtimes
- containerd
- CRI-O
- Docker Engine
Clouds
- Amazon
- Google Cloud
- Microsoft Azure
- Cloudflare
- Cloud Stack
Virtualization
- VMWare
- Vagrant
- KVM
Operating Systems
- Debian
- RHEL
- Solaris
- BSD
- Windows Server
Logging
- Falcon
- ELK
- Cloud Logs
- LogDNA
- Loki
Metrics and Monitoring
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Carbon
- Nagios
Databases
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
- DynamoDB
Web Servers
- Nginx
- Apache
- Rocket
- Tomcat
Documenting
- Confluence
- Read the Docs
- Sphinx
- Docusaurus
Threat Intelligence
- Virus Total
- IBM X-Force
- CrowdStrike Falcon X
Digital Forensics
- TCPdump
- WireShark
- Nmap
- Sysinternals
- Linux Tools
OSINT
- Maltego
- Shodan
- Harvester
- Google Dorks
Vulnerability Assessment
- Trivy
- kubesec
- AppArmor
- Burpsuite
- Nessus
- McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator