Professional Summary
Hybrid Technical Team Lead, Solution Architect, and Senior DevOps Engineer with over a decade of experience designing, automating, and scaling secure cloud infrastructure on AWS. Proven track record of leading cross-functional engineering teams, executing enterprise infrastructure modernizations, and managing complex database migrations. Expert in Terraform, Containerization, and multi-account AWS architectures, consistently applying the AWS Well-Architected Framework to deliver secure, cost-optimized, and resilient systems. Highly versatile and technology-agnostic, with a proven ability to rapidly master, adapt to, and seamlessly implement emerging technologies to solve diverse enterprise challenges.
Core Skills
- Leadership & Architecture: Technical Team Leadership, Stakeholder Management, AWS Well-Architected Framework, FinOps, Rapid Technology Adoption & Adaptation
- Cloud Architecture: AWS (IAM, ECS, RDS, API Gateway, Lambda, CloudFront, DMS)
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Terraform
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes (EKS)
- CI/CD Automation: GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Development & Frameworks: Quarkus, Angular, Java, Bash
- Databases & Migration: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS DMS, SCT, Ora2PG, RDS to S3
- Observability & SRE: ELK Stack, CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana
- Systems & Servers: Linux/UNIX, Glassfish, WebLogic, Apache, Nginx
- Industry Expertise: Financial Services · Automotive · Web Hosting · Telecommunications
Professional Experience
Senior DevOps & Solution Architect & Technical Team Lead
IBM — Brasov, Romania | Jun 2023 – Present
- Led and mentored cross-functional teams of DevOps and cloud engineers across multiple enterprise projects, balancing delivery management with hands-on technical execution.
- Architected and deployed secure, multi-account AWS environments using Terraform, aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework principles, landing zones, and enterprise IAM strategies.
- Served as the primary technical authority for stakeholders, translating complex business objectives into scalable, production-ready cloud architectures supporting both legacy systems and modern cloud-native frameworks like Quarkus and Angular.
- Spearheaded CI/CD migration from legacy Jenkins pipelines to modern GitHub Actions, establishing standard automated deployment patterns and robust containerized build environments using Docker.
- Drove database modernization initiatives, successfully migrating legacy Oracle databases to PostgreSQL utilizing AWS DMS, SCT, and Ora2PG; engineered alternative data pipeline and archiving solutions including RDS to Amazon S3 migrations.
- Implemented FinOps practices and cloud governance frameworks, significantly improving cost transparency and optimizing infrastructure spend.
DevOps & Infrastructure Engineer
IBM — Brasov, Romania | Jan 2018 – Jun 2023
- Modernized and maintained high-availability enterprise financial systems, transitioning legacy application servers such as Glassfish and WebLogic into automated, resilient, and container-ready infrastructure.
- Engineered containerized workflows using Docker and robust automation scripts in Bash/Linux to eliminate repetitive operational tasks and streamline deployment environments.
- Designed and deployed observability solutions leveraging the ELK Stack, improving system monitoring coverage, proactive alerting, and incident response times.
- Provided Level 3 technical expertise for complex, distributed applications running on Glassfish, WebLogic, Apache, and Oracle SQL databases, drastically reducing MTTR (Mean Time to Resolution).
2nd Level Applications & VoIP Incident Manager
Atos / Unify — Brasov, Romania | Dec 2015 – Jan 2018
- Managed and supported mission-critical VoIP and unified communication platforms in enterprise environments.
- Administered Linux systems, executed deep-dive troubleshooting, and managed security patching protocols.
- Contributed heavily to infrastructure stability, driving service availability improvements.
Education
Engineer's Degree – Industrial Economic Engineering
University Transilvania Brasov | 2011 – 2015
Certifications & Credentials
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
- IBM Architectural Thinking
- IBM Recognized Speaker / Educator
- Security and Privacy by Design Foundations (IBM)