Adrian Pop
Verified Expert in Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Developer
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania
Toptal member since November 16, 2020
Adrian is a software engineer with more than 10 years of experience in DevSecOps, cloud infrastructures, SRE, HPC, and security areas. He is passionate about learning, research, and POC. His primary focus is on creating awesome infrastructures, pipelines, and security enhancements for startups or refining small, low-level details for on-premises environments.
Portfolio
Experience
- DevSecOps - 5 years
- Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) - 5 years
- Linux HPC - 2 years
- Slurm Workload Manager - 2 years
- High-performance Cluster Manager (HPCM) - 2 years
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - 2 years
- High-performance Computing (HPC) - 2 years
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Linux, High-performance Computing (HPC)
The most amazing...
...thing I've created is a fully-functional, 1-click deployable, high performance computing infrastructure.
Work Experience
Research Assistant
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
- Tested diverse options to find the optimal architecture for a high-performance computing system used for academic research within an AI institute.
- Developed an Agentic AI system for 3D processing of OCTs.
- Researched topics around biochemical reactions inside the human body.
DevSecOps
iServit
- Designed, implemented, and maintained cloud infrastructures based on Proxmox hypervisor with Ansible.
- Created and maintained Ansible roles and playbooks to automate the entire infrastructure and its containers.
- Designed, implemented, and maintained GCP and AWS infrastructures with Terraform.
- Created a penetration testing lab for university students' learning purposes.
- Designed, implemented, and maintained GKE infrastructure with Terraform and Ansible and deployed the pipelines from GitLab and GitHub.
DevOps
Toptal Client
- Built and monitored a high-available Blockchain node infrastructure computed by various nodes for different cryptocurrencies with integrated monitoring and backup tools. The entire infrastructure is managed by Terraform and configured with Ansible.
- Maintained the GKE clusters and improved deployments, certificate management, and secrets management. I also enhanced the GitHub CI/CD pipeline.
- Improved the overall infrastructure and monitoring tools with Datadog.
DevOps
Betfair Romania Development
- Created a Kubernetes environment for canary deployments.
- Set up an NGINX web server for different behaviors.
- Maintained and enhanced the deployment pipelines for Java microservices and the Couchbase database.
Experience
Pentest Lab
The infrastructure is based on Debian distribution, virtualized by Proxmox. OpenVPN stands as an access gateway. The networking is done entirely at the network layer (layer 3) with different access and internet access levels, while the firewall is based mainly on raw iptables rules. It can handle two types of entities, KVM and LXC containers. The entire infrastructure and main user interactions are fully automated with Ansible.
Ski and Snowboard School Management System
https://snowbuddy.appWedding Planning Application
https://planme.roEducation
PhD in Computer Science
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Master's Degree in Information and Computing System Security
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - Cluj, Romania
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - Cluj, Romania
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React
Tools
Ansible, NGINX, Iptables, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, High-performance Cluster Manager (HPCM), OpenVPN
Languages
Java, Python
Frameworks
Angular, Spring
Paradigms
DevSecOps, DevOps, Penetration Testing, High-performance Computing (HPC)
Platforms
Linux, Proxmox, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Debian
Storage
PostgreSQL
Other
Linux Servers, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), CI/CD Pipelines, Networks, Security, LXC, Firewalls, Shell Scripting, Linux HPC, Slurm Workload Manager, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Mobile Security, Security Audits, Cloud Security, Biochemistry, HAProxy, Medical Imaging, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs)
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