Lead Platform Engineer
Building resilient
systems at scale.
15+ years designing and operating complex infrastructure — from deep network engineering to Kubernetes platforms in regulated industries. Based in Romania, working globally.
Core Expertise
Platform Engineering
- Kubernetes · OpenShift
- Multi-cluster operations
- GitOps: FluxCD · ArgoCD
- AWS EKS · OpenStack
- Stateful workloads
Automation & CI/CD
- Ansible at scale
- Terraform · IaC
- GitLab CI · GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Deployment frameworks
Observability & Security
- Prometheus · Grafana
- ELK · Loki · Thanos
- Vault · Kyverno
- Palo Alto · Cisco ASA
- GxP / compliance
Networking
- BGP · OSPF · MPLS
- VPC design · VPNs
- HAProxy · NGINX · F5
- Multi-site WAN
- Network automation
Infrastructure
- VMware · bare-metal
- HPE MSA · 3PAR · Nimble
- Veeam · CommVault
- 100+ server labs
- Capacity planning
Leadership
- Technical lead / SME
- Architecture ownership
- Training & workshops
- Mentoring engineers
- Cross-functional delivery
Recent Posts
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- I joined 512kb.club
- BGP core memory
- How to improve Wordpress performance
- How to empty a file in Microsoft Windows without deleting it
- RedHat Openshift, container IDs and cgroups
- Microsoft announced Think Deeper, free access to GPT o1 model
- How to analyze and fix a pod scheduling issue due to Insufficient Memory on Kubernetes or Openshift.
- How to get audio notification from CLI when server or service is reachable
Work with me
Available for consulting engagements in platform engineering, infrastructure architecture, and automation. I work best on complex problems that need both deep technical skill and clear communication.
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