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Platform engineer with 5+ years on AWS. Built an EKS platform serving 15+ microservices and delivered a serverless migration handling 100K+ daily requests. GitOps-driven workflows adopted by 4 engineering teams.
01 — About
I'm a Platform / DevOps Engineer based in Austin, TX, specializing in scalable cloud infrastructure on AWS. My focus is turning complex infrastructure problems into reusable, self-service platforms that let engineering teams move faster without depending on ops.
At Expedia Group, I led the design of a multi-environment EKS platform across 12 Terraform modules, standardized Kubernetes deployments with Helm, and migrated a production API to serverless — cutting infrastructure costs by ~30% while handling 100K+ daily requests with zero servers to manage.
Previously at Citrix Systems, I drove Terraform adoption from the ground up — migrating 90%+ of manually provisioned AWS resources into version control, writing 6 reusable modules, and standardizing IAM, security, and incident workflows into an internal knowledge base.
I hold a B.S. in Computer Science from the State University of Moldova and hold active CKA & CKAD certifications from CNCF.
Austin, TX · Open to Remote
B.S. Computer Science
State University of Moldova, Chisinau
02 — Experience
03 — Skills
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⎈ Containers & Orchestration
⬡ IaC & CI/CD
📊 Monitoring & Observability
🔐 Security
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04 — Projects
Real-world infrastructure work with measurable outcomes.
Designed a reusable GitHub Actions pipeline standard adopted across all platform services. OIDC-based cross-account auth (zero static keys), immutable ECR tagging by SHA digest, ARM64 Docker Buildx, and Helm rollouts with automated dev deploys and manual approval gates for stage and prod. Interactive role-based demo — click to explore it as a Developer, Stage Reviewer, or Prod Approver.
Migrated an internal aggregation API from EC2 to a serverless stack. Rethought auth, broke logic into Lambda handlers, configured CloudFront + API Gateway routing, used DynamoDB for lightweight state. ARM64 Graviton Lambda with cross-compiled dependencies via Docker buildx.
Designed a multi-environment Kubernetes platform (dev/staging/prod) from scratch. 12 Terraform modules covering EKS, VPC, IAM, node groups, IRSA, ingress, secrets, monitoring, and namespace setup. Branch-based pipeline routing with DynamoDB state locking and manual approval gate for prod.
Built monitoring across the EKS platform — Prometheus with auto-discovery, Grafana dashboards, CloudWatch for AWS-level metrics. Alerts routed to Slack and PagerDuty. Tuned thresholds iteratively: pod restart windows, error-rate percentage instead of raw counts to eliminate noise.
Drove Terraform adoption from scratch: wrote 6 reusable modules, migrated 90%+ of console-managed resources via import + drift resolution. Standardized IAM, onboarding, and incident response into an internal knowledge base. No more manual console changes.
05 — Certifications
06 — Contact
Open to Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or Cloud Architecture roles. Let's build something great together.