I am a DevOps engineer, located in Calgary, Canada, with 5+ years of experience in DevOps roles and 9+ years of experience in production enterprise infrastructures, either on-premise or on the cloud (specifically on AWS).
My skillset revolves around the following 3 domains:
- Development Automation
- Using tools like Terraform, GitLab CI/CD, and Ansible (or equivalents like CloudFormation in AWS) to simplify workflows and get features from development to production smoothly, reliably, and quickly.
- I am a certified Terraform Associate and am aiming to become a Terraform instructor in my spare time.
- My coding proficiency lies with scripting in Bash, PowerShell, and Python 3. I understand Object Oriented Programming and have worked on MVC applications using C#.NET but prefer to focus my attention on scripting for DevOps or coding small utility applications.
- Infrastructure Management and Observability
- I am well versed in enterprise infrastructure and can manage different on-premise hypervisor setups (VMWare ESXi, ProxMox for example), as well as cloud-based environments (AWS primarily).
- I am a certified AWS Solutions Architect and feel most comfortable working in AWS as a cloud environment but can transfer my knowledge to Azure and GCP and have some exposure to those providers as well.
- My preferred tools are typically vendor-neutral (Terraform, Ansible) when possible but I am comfortable working with some vendor-specific tools (AWS CloudFormation, RedHat OpenShift etc.) or adopting new tools as well.
- I typically use Prometheus for log-gathering and Grafana for dashboards and feel comfortable adapting to different observability stacks.
- Cybersecurity
- As of 2025 I have a certification with CompTIA for Security+ and am pursuing a Cybersecurity Analyst certification to add to my portfolio.
- I have worked with the Canadian DoD with high level clearances and understand security best-practices and air-gapped environments.
- I’m familiar with OWASP , stay up to date with various CVEs, and can write a security analysis report.
- Lately, I have developed a growing interest in pen-testing as I believe it can prove very useful to designing reliable infrastructure. I welcome any opportunity to collaborate or work with blue teams.
Other things about me
- I am fluent in English and Romanian (grew up in Canada, parents are first generation).
- I am learning ASL and am a disability rights advocate.
- I am a bunny dad and my bunny rules (videos and pictures galore provided on demand).
- I am very jealous that my 2 cats are bonded to my wife and treat me like a second class citizen.
- I play PC games with a controller like some sort of living room savage.
- Magnus did nothing wrong (Warhammer reference).