I am a ☁️Cloud Engineer engaging in DevOps practices, with an affinity for software engineering. My everyday work consists of managing AWS and Kubernetes infrastructure. I enable developers across several teams in hosting and operating their backend and frontend applications at BMW Aftersales. With 3 years of professional IT experience, I focus on implementing robust, scalable cloud solutions.
My best achievement yet is Rito Kids, an EdTech startup which I Co-Founded. The app has gathered up to 20k+ downloads📈. Rito Kids is an educational cross-platform mobile application which helps children aged 4-8 learn handwriting in a fun, interactive way enabled by complex image processing algorithms.
My long term goal🔭 is to become an expert Platform Engineer and specialize in hybrid systems and security, leveraging enterprise cloud solutions in on premise environments.
I am a highly technical person. I would say the easiest way to catch my attention is to engage in a discussion about the latest technologies, hardware or methodologies used for hosting and operating whatever kind of software.
I use neovim btw📖
- AWS for Cloud - architecture design & implementation
- Terraform for Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Docker and Podman for Containerization
- Kubernetes and Docker Compose for Orchestration
- Linux (Amazon Linux 2 and Ubuntu) for OS
- GitHub Actions (previously used Jenkins as well) and ArgoCD for CI/CD
- Git and GitHub for Version Control
- Managed applications written in Java (Quarkus), Flutter, Python and C#
- Grafana Stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) for Monitoring & Logging
- ITSM for Alert & Incident Management
- Bash and Python for Scripting
- Go for writing various custom functionality or custom Terraform providers
- Markdown (usually on GitHub) and Confluence for Documentation
- Jira for Task Management
Feb 2024 - Present
DevOps Engineer
- coordinated with previous BMW contractor for smooth handover of IT systems
- operate on hybrid environments (on-prem and cloud)
- migrate on premise infrastructure to AWS
- 24/7 application and infrastructure support with on-call availability
- ensure DevSecOps, FinOps and GitOps practices
- significantly reduced hosting costs by migrating ECS to S3 for frontend hosting in less than 1 month as a technical debt fix while maintaining high availability and 0 downtime deployments
- get applications' AWS Security Score from 70-80% to 95%+ in 3 months after handover as a technical debt fix while maintaining high availability
- introduce a GitOps concept implemented with ArgoCD, Helm and Python
Nov 2021 - Present
Co-Founder & Software Engineer
- built an Educational Mobile App with 20k+ downloads and ~500MAU
- best educational app at Microsoft Imagine Cup EMEA as Manuscrito
- grand prize at Innovation Labs
- created handwriting recognition & scoring system
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
DevOps Engineer Intern
- learned the basics of DevOps and worked on various small tasks
Oct 2020 - Jul 2023
Bachelor's in Computer Science
Bachelor Thesis - "Message Queues: A Fair Analysis"
- benchmarked Message Queues written in various languages (C++, Python and Rust) and parallelism paradigms (single threaded, multi threaded and async)
- Prune Git Branches
- homelab used for educational purposes and personal use
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrei-vasil/
Personal email: [email protected]
Phone number: +40 746 368 816