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Hire BogdanBogdan Antoniu
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Brașov, Brașov County, Romania
Toptal member since October 11, 2021
Bio
Bogdan is an experienced development and support manager with a demonstrated history in telecommunication, managed services, software engineering, information security, and DevOps. As an AWS certified solutions architect, Bodgan keeps himself actively involved in the DevOps community and projects.
Portfolio
Self-employed
Azure Landing Zones, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Firewalls, Checkpoints
Fortech SRL
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, Jenkins...
Plural Labs, Inc
Terraform, DevOps, Kubernetes
Experience
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 5 years
- Docker - 4 years
- Kubernetes - 4 years
- Jenkins - 4 years
- Azure - 3 years
- Packer - 3 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- CircleCI - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Ubuntu Linux, Jenkins, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Containerization
The most amazing...
...project I've fulfilled was to create the architecture, implement, optimize, and support the cloud infrastructure for an electric car's connectivity system.
Work Experience
Cloud Senior Manager
2024 - PRESENT
Self-employed
- Created a complete landing zone with on-premises connectivity to support both on-premises and cloud resources.
- Deployed multiple services, like private AKS clusters for different teams, using spot instances for lower costs.
- Created fully secured environments using kube-bench, CloudGuard deployments, etc.
Technologies: Azure Landing Zones, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), Firewalls, Checkpoints
DevOps Pod Manager and Site Manager
2019 - 2024
Fortech SRL
- Architected, implemented, and optimized the cloud architecture for an electric car connectivity system. Fully automated CI/CD pipelines and secured environment and push-button deployments in AWS.
- Enhanced and optimized the architecture for an electric bike's connectivity system and fully automated AWS deployment.
- Architected and implemented a fully automated deployment solution in Azure for a UK fintech startup offering payment gateways for public institutions. Worked with storage, AKS, WAF, app insights, app services, function apps, and virtual networks.
- Redesigned and implemented an automated solution deployed in AWS for a UK-based bank with an entirely automated fallback in Azure. Worked with subnets, routing tables, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, virtual machines, availability sets, managed disks, etc.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Terraform, Docker, Azure, Kubernetes, Jenkins, CircleCI, Packer, Amazon EKS, CI/CD Pipelines, DevOps, DevOps Engineer, Architecture, Containers, Amazon SageMaker, Bash, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Cloud Security
DevOps Engineer
2022 - 2023
Plural Labs, Inc
- Helped the team add different applications to the Plural marketplace by customizing or creating new Helm charts for open-source applications.
- Contributed and improved the Helm charts for different open-source applications.
- Launched new applications in the marketplace and provided support for new and existing customers.
Technologies: Terraform, DevOps, Kubernetes
DevOps Engineer
2022 - 2022
TokenTax LLC
- Administered and deployed different services in the Google Cloud Platform and AWS.
- Implemented monitoring and proactive actions to ensure the efficient and on-time processing of input files.
- Developed DataDog plugins for monitoring in Python, implementing Kubernetes event-driven autoscaling (KEDA).
Technologies: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes, Linux, Ethereum
DevOps Engineer
2021 - 2022
Design Barn, Inc.
- Deployed a number of EKS clusters and integrated them with different AWS services.
- Contributed to KeyCloak integration and fully automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Handled Argo CD deployment and other applications deployed using Helm.
Technologies: Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines, TypeScript, Node.js, GitHub, AWS IAM, Amazon EKS, DevOps, GitOps, Amazon Web Services (AWS), AWS DevOps
Senior Manager | Advanced Security Analysis and Response
2018 - 2019
SecureWorks
- Developed a new container for first and second-level SOC operations practice areas focused on cloud security.
- Designed and operated new SOC L1 and L2 analysis services for Splunk, Cloud, and IoT.
- Owned internal tooling development and automation in the managed security service domain.
Technologies: Cloud Security, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Python
Operations Support Systems Domain Leader for Central and East Europe
2016 - 2018
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Owned presales and delivery efforts for OSS solutions within the scope of assurance, fulfillment, NFV orchestration, and CRM for Central and East Europe.
- Spearheaded agile developments, including bespoke software development and open-source deployments, gathering extensive experience with Jenkins, Gradle, AWS, Chef, Docker, Puppet, Zabbix, ElasticSearch, and Kibana.
- Led the support chapter of CRM enterprise development, focusing on incidents, defects, problem, and root cause analysis, triggering change requests as an active part of the program increment (PI) planning.
- Built and ran a DevOps team focused on AWS and Azure, Jenkins, Docker, and Docker swarm.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, Azure
Manager OSS, Media and Applications
2009 - 2016
Ericsson
- Managed integration projects—namely solution proposals, effort estimations, and planning and delivery of bespoke built software—including IT infrastructure with hardware, operating systems, and databases for customers within the Mediterranean area.
- Performed virtualization and application deployment, tuning, and customization according to customer requirements and agreed solutions.
- Acted as an automation and delivery optimization driver, owning service delivery and team setup.
Technologies: Ubuntu, Solaris, Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience
CI/CD and IaC for a Fintech Startup
I started this project by architecting the CI/CD pipelines and the entire cloud infrastructure. After the customer approved the proposed solutions, I implemented the CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and the required infrastructure with Terraform. The solution included a CDN, a Kubernetes cluster deployed on an autoscaling group, WAF integration, and databases using MongoDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis.
Animation Platform Project
The customer delivers lightweight, scalable animations and the tooling needed to create such animations for websites, apps, presentations, etc. The infrastructure includes CI/CD pipelines, several EKS clusters in different VPCs (interconnected for some shared services), and a virtual Kubernetes cluster provided for dev teams. It also includes IaC with Terraform and Pulumi, plus monitoring with federated Prometheus, Thanos, and Grafana.
Cryptocurrency Platform
Multiple Google Cloud Kubernetes Engine (GKE) Cluster-based deployments with full CI/CD (CircleCI). Helm charts deployed via ArgoCD (GitOps). Monitoring with Datadog and custom python monitoring modules.
Education
2007 - 2009
MBA in Management
Transylvania Universitty - Brasov, Romenia
2002 - 2003
Master's Degree in Telecommunications
Politechnical University - Iassy, Romenia
1997 - 2002
Bachelor of Science Degree in Telecommunications
Gheorghe Asachi Technical University - Iassy, Romenia
Certifications
JULY 2025 - PRESENT
CKAD
Linux Foundation
APRIL 2025 - PRESENT
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Linux Foundation
FEBRUARY 2018 - FEBRUARY 2021
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
AWS
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js
Tools
Terraform, Amazon EKS, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Helm, Jenkins, Packer, GitLab, CircleCI, Amazon SageMaker, GitHub, AWS IAM, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Paradigms
DevOps, Azure DevOps
Platforms
Docker, Kubernetes, Ubuntu, Solaris, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Unix, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Linux, Ethereum
Languages
Bash, Python, TypeScript
Industry Expertise
Telecommunications
Storage
Datadog
Other
IT Management, CI/CD Pipelines, AWS DevOps, DevOps Engineer, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Architecture, Containers, Containerization, AWS Cloud Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Cisco Networking, Cloud Security, Amazon RDS, Pulumi, Argo CD, GitOps, Kubernetes administraton, Azure Landing Zones, Firewalls, Checkpoints
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