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Cloud platforms and AI systems that run in production.

Senior DevOps Engineer with 14+ years in DevOps and 35+ years of Unix/Linux experience. I design and run enterprise-grade cloud platforms on AWS and GCP — Kubernetes (EKS, GKE), Terraform infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD at scale and Prometheus/Grafana observability — for clients in the UK, Ireland, France, Belgium and Romania. I also build AI engineering solutions: LLM integrations, RAG pipelines and agentic workflows.

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14+Years in DevOps

35+Years on Unix/Linux

5Countries served

2Clouds: AWS & GCP

agent — ~/platform

$ claude
> Add autoscaling to the api service and open a merge request

● Read charts/api/values.yaml
● Write charts/api/templates/hpa.yaml  (+24 lines)
● Bash helm template charts/api | kubeconform -strict
  ✓ 14 resources valid
● Bash terraform -chdir=infra plan
  Plan: 0 to add, 1 to change, 0 to destroy.
? Push branch feat/api-hpa and open the MR?  [y/N]

// Services

Everything between the commit and a healthy production.

Architecture, automation and operations — delivered by one senior engineer who has run production since 1996.

Kubernetes & Terraform in detail →

Cloud Architecture

AWS and GCP platforms designed for availability, security and predictable cost — from landing zone to production.

Infrastructure as Code

Reusable Terraform modules, multi-environment layouts and reviewed, repeatable changes. HashiCorp certified.

Kubernetes Platforms

EKS and GKE clusters, Helm-based delivery, autoscaling and hardened workloads that teams can actually operate.

CI/CD & Release Engineering

GitLab CI, Jenkins and Concourse pipelines that take code from commit to production safely, many times a day.

Observability

Prometheus and Grafana stacks with meaningful alerts, dashboards and SLOs — fewer pages, faster incident response.

From commit to production

Every change reviewed, planned and rolled out through pipelines — no snowflake servers, no manual drift, no 2 a.m. surprises.

// AI Engineering

AI engineering, built on production-grade infrastructure.

I design and ship LLM-powered systems with the same discipline I apply to cloud platforms: versioned infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, cost control and security from day one. Claude and Claude Code are part of my daily toolkit — for building AI products and for accelerating infrastructure work itself.

ClaudeClaude CodeOpenAILangChainRAGEmbeddingsVector searchPrompt engineeringAgentic AIPython

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fig. 1 — reference RAG architecture I build and operate

LLM integrations

Claude and OpenAI APIs wired into products and internal tools — prompt design, tool use, structured outputs, latency and cost control.

RAG pipelines

Document ingestion, chunking, embeddings and vector search with LangChain, plus retrieval evaluation so answers stay grounded in your data.

Agentic workflows

Agents that plan and execute multi-step tasks against real systems — with scoped permissions, audit trails and human approval for irreversible actions.

Claude Code for DevOps

AI-assisted Terraform, Kubernetes and pipeline work: project conventions, guardrails and review gates so the agent ships changes safely.

LLMOps on AWS & GCP

AI services deployed on Kubernetes with Terraform and CI/CD — secrets management, autoscaling, monitoring and spend dashboards.

Evaluation & guardrails

Test suites for prompts and retrieval, regression checks in CI, and safety rules that keep model behaviour predictable in production.

// Projects

What I'm building.

Two products of my own, built with the same tooling and discipline I bring to client work.

In development

Onix

Code model for developers & DevOps

Onix is a language model I'm building from scratch, trained for one job only: writing code. It is made for developers and DevOps engineers, across application code and infrastructure alike.

ReactPythonHelmTerraformand more

In development

Vigil

AWS posture scanner

A read-only scanner that runs inside your own AWS account and reviews it for Security, Reliability and Cost Optimization: 55 checks mapped to Well-Architected, with remediation steps, plus which services you use and what each costs. Results are pushed to your own space; Vigil never holds access to your account.

PythonAWS LambdaStep FunctionsCloudFormationFastAPIPostgreSQLReact

// Experience

Trusted in production across five countries.

From airlines and insurers to fintech and e-commerce — consulting, contracting and leading DevOps teams.

Digital Cloud OPS Ltd

London, UKJul 2019 – Present

Founder · DevOps Lead & AI Engineer

Run a UK-registered DevOps consultancy delivering cloud infrastructure and automation for enterprise clients across Western Europe
Lead cloud infrastructure architecture and infrastructure-as-code design on AWS and GCP
Manage CI/CD pipelines at scale and automation across cloud environments
Build AI engineering solutions: LLM integrations and RAG pipelines

Upwork

RemoteSep 2024 – Dec 2025

Senior DevOps & AI Engineer

Designed and implemented Terraform IaC for AWS and GCP cloud infrastructure
Created and managed Kubernetes clusters on AWS EKS and Google Cloud GKE
Implemented a full observability stack with Prometheus and Grafana
Managed CI/CD pipelines via GitLab; deployed applications with Helm charts
Delivered AI engineering projects: LLM integrations and RAG pipelines

Allianz Technology

Bucharest, RomaniaMay 2023 – Oct 2024

Senior DevOps Engineer

Managed GitLab CI/CD pipelines and automated infrastructure with Python
Created and maintained Terraform scripts and AWS Lambda functions
Implemented Prometheus & Grafana monitoring; wrote backend API components
Deployed application releases to Kubernetes using Helm charts

Yields.io

Brugge, BelgiumApr 2022 – Aug 2022

Senior DevOps Engineer

Managed CI/CD pipelines with Concourse for continuous integration and delivery
Cross-environment Terraform scripting on AWS and GCP; created reusable modules
AWS Lambda functions, Kubernetes deployments with Helm, Docker configurations

Molex SA

Bucharest, RomaniaAug 2020 – Feb 2022

Senior DevOps Engineer

Created and managed GitLab CI/CD pipelines for weekly application releases
Developed Python automation utilities and Docker/Compose configurations
Built and maintained AWS infrastructure with Terraform; created a Kubernetes cluster on AWS

Aer Lingus

Dublin, IrelandJul 2019 – Jul 2020

Senior DevOps Engineer

Refactored Terraform and Ansible scripts; designed new AWS infrastructure
Migrated infrastructure components from on-premises to AWS cloud

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Sophia Antipolis Companies

Nice, FranceOct 2017 – Jun 2019

Senior DevOps Engineer

Managed complex cloud infrastructure and provided DevOps consultancy services
Assisted companies migrating from on-premises to cloud environments

Qualitance QBS

Bucharest, RomaniaNov 2016 – Oct 2017

Senior DevOps Engineer

Led DevOps for a London property management platform (team of 20, 7 months)
Set up DEV/STAGING/PRODUCTION with Jenkins CI/CD and Docker microservices on AWS
Kubernetes production deployment; mobile apps published to App Store & Google Play

PJ Interactive Media

London, UKApr 2016 – Oct 2016

DevOps Engineer

Built CI/CD pipelines for the Samsung Qatar e-shop; deployed to AWS with Terraform

OPCOM SA

Bucharest, RomaniaDec 2015 – Apr 2016

DevOps Engineer

Designed full DEV/STAGING/PROD AWS infrastructure with Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible
Set up ELK stack and Prometheus/Grafana monitoring; configured Nginx reverse proxy

NextLogic Media

London, UKMay 2012 – Dec 2015

Lead DevOps Engineer

Led design and operational management of secure, scalable infrastructure
Developed the DevOps roadmap; managed critical production incidents and CD toolsets
Bridged dev and infrastructure teams to optimize the technical environment

Various Companies

Bucharest, RomaniaSep 1996 – May 2012

Senior Sysadmin — Linux & Unix

Linux/Unix server administration, networking and VMware management
Bash and Python automation scripting; backup, replication and clustering strategies

// Stack

Tools of the trade.

Cloud & IaC

AWSGCPTerraformAWS LambdaAnsibleCloudFormation

Containers

KubernetesEKSGKEHelmDockerDocker Compose

CI/CD

GitLab CIJenkinsConcourseGit

Observability

PrometheusGrafanaELKNginx

Languages & OS

PythonBash / ShellLinuxUnix

AI / LLM

ClaudeClaude CodeOpenAIRAGLangChainAgentic AI

Certification

Terraform Certified Associate

HashiCorp

Education

ASE Bucharest

Faculty of Cybernetics · 1990 – 1996

Languages

English · French · Romanian

Professional · Professional · Native

// Contact

Have a platform that needs a senior pair of hands?

Tell me where you are and where you want to be. I reply within 24 hours.

Emailcatalinp69@outlook.com Phone+40 745 786 203

Based inBucharest, Romania · remote