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07.2026 – now / DevOps Consultant · Lumination AI

Built from scratch the AWS infrastructure behind Lumination AI, an AI-based learning platform for schools and individual learners, and migrated the platform to it from Microsoft Azure. The move reduced cost and complexity, sped up deployments and improved security.

Also built a separate Azure infrastructure, running on Azure Container Apps, for one of the company’s white-label clients.

Everything is managed as code with Terraform and deployed through GitHub Actions, with the platform’s services running on AWS ECS and integrating with external AI model APIs such as OpenAI.

• aws
• azure
• terraform
• github actions
• ecs

01.2024 – 10.2026 / DevOps Consultant · Nomad Homes

Designed and built the AWS infrastructure behind Nomad Homes’ new AI application for real estate professionals, taking it from first architecture to production.

Managed the entire AI platform as code with Terraform, and built GitHub Actions pipelines that automatically ship its Docker-based microservices to production ECS clusters.

• aws
• terraform
• github actions
• docker
• ecs

11.2024 – 02.2025 / DevOps Consultant · seabo

Led seabo’s migration from manually deployed bare-metal and DigitalOcean servers to a fully automated AWS environment, built with Terraform and GitLab CI/CD.

Set up EKS (Kubernetes) clusters to host the company’s Docker-based services.

Provisioned Apache Kafka (MSK) clusters for high-volume shipping data processing, and helped developers build and troubleshoot the Python Lambda functions behind those workflows.

• aws
• terraform
• gitlab ci
• eks
• kafka
• lambda

01.2019 – 06.2024 / Chief System Architect · Creative Fabrica

Architected and built Creative Fabrica’s AWS infrastructure over five years, with everything provisioned through Terraform.

Built the company’s AWS-based AI platform, including a self-hosted image generation model running on GPU nodes in an EKS (Kubernetes) cluster, alongside the infrastructure for its e-commerce operations on ECS.

Guided the development team through adopting microservices and Docker, and set up streamlined local development environments and CircleCI CI/CD pipelines.

• aws
• terraform
• eks
• gpu
• ecs
• docker
• circleci

05.2023 – 01.2024 / DevOps Consultant · SURF

Designed SURF’s strategy for moving one of its application stacks to a Docker-based development environment, then worked alongside the internal development teams to put it into practice.

• docker

03.2019 – 03.2021 / Cloud Architect · 56K.Cloud

Worked as a cloud architect and automation specialist with 56K.Cloud, an infrastructure consultancy, designing and deploying fully automated infrastructures for its clients, primarily on AWS with Terraform.

Helped businesses of all sizes architect and scale their cloud infrastructure, adopt infrastructure as code, set up CI/CD pipelines, and optimize their applications for Docker containers running on Kubernetes and AWS ECS.

• aws
• terraform
• docker
• kubernetes
• ecs

09.2018 – 03.2019 / Cloud Native Consultant · Container Solutions

Worked alongside Container Solutions engineers to advise clients on cloud migration, automation and containerization projects, and to deliver them, primarily with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker and Terraform.

• aws
• kubernetes
• docker
• terraform

04.2018 – 09.2018 / DevOps Consultant · nearForm

Collaborated closely with nearForm’s developers to design, implement, and scale cloud-based infrastructures for the company’s clients. This involved deploying Node.js applications across different cloud providers like AWS, GCE, and Azure, automating cloud infrastructure with Terraform, establishing container-based CI/CD pipelines, and orchestrating application containers using ECS and Kubernetes.

• aws
• gce
• azure
• terraform
• ecs
• kubernetes

05.2017 – 04.2018 / DevOps Consultant · creative.ai

Designed and executed the infrastructure for the creative.ai platform. This included establishing a user-friendly development environment with Docker containers, implementing continuous integration using Travis, NodeJS, and Docker, and deploying staging and production environments on AWS using Docker Swarm for backend hosting and CloudFront/S3 for frontend delivery. Automation via Ansible and Terraform.

• aws
• docker swarm
• travis
• ansible
• terraform

10.2016 – 05.2017 / DevOps Consultant · iMedicare

Implemented monitoring tools such as Graphite, Grafana, and the Elasticsearch / Kibana / Logstash stack to gain deeper insights into their infrastructure. Optimized the load balancing and CDN setup by combining AWS ELB, S3, and Nginx. Additionally, established a development environment based on Docker and a Jenkins-driven CI pipeline.

• aws
• grafana
• elk
• nginx
• docker
• jenkins

08.2013 – 07.2016 / Senior Linux Systems Engineer · Bucharest

• Helped grow the company’s infrastructure from around a thousand servers in one datacenter to over ten thousand across three, scaling Puppet to keep up with that growth.
• Introduced Docker, Mesos and Marathon as a single, easy-to-adopt container platform.
• Built tools to manage the multi-datacenter setup and failover, using Django, Zookeeper and Redis.
• Moved the team to a new monitoring stack based on Bosun, Grafana and Kibana.
• Wrote an HTTP REST API to manage F5 load balancers, using Python, Flask and Redis.

• puppet
• docker
• mesos
• python
• grafana
• f5

04.2010 – 08.2013 / Linux Systems Engineer · Amsterdam

• Deployed, maintained and automated hundreds of Nginx-based web servers and F5 load balancers.
• Managed the Puppet infrastructure, refactored many of its core modules, and taught Puppet introduction classes for new employees.
• Built a KVM-based development environment that cut setup time for a newly hired developer from one day to two hours.
• Helped grow the team from 10 to 22 members by onboarding newly hired engineers.

• nginx
• f5
• puppet
• kvm