Adrian Pop
Verified Expert in Engineering
Networks Developer
Adrian is a software engineer with more than five years of experience in DevSecOps, cloud infrastructures, SRE, and security areas. He is passionate about learning, research, and POC. Still, his primary focus is creating awesome infrastructures, pipelines, and security enhancements for startups or refining small, low-level details for on-premises environments.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux
The most amazing...
...thing I've created is a fully-functional, almost one-click deployable, virtual penetration testing laboratory.
Work Experience
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.
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https://planme.roSkills
Languages
Java, Bash, Python, C
Frameworks
Angular, Spring
Tools
Ansible, NGINX, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Terraform, Helm, GitLab CI/CD, OpenVPN, Istio
Paradigms
DevSecOps, DevOps, Penetration Testing
Other
Linux Servers, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), CI/CD Pipelines, Networks, Security, Iptables, LXC, Firewalls, Shell Scripting, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Web App Security, Mobile Security, Security Audits, Cloud Security, DHCP, Biochemistry, HAProxy
Libraries/APIs
React
Platforms
Linux, Proxmox, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Red Hat Linux, Kubernetes, Debian
Storage
Database Security, PostgreSQL, Datadog
Education
Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca - Cluj-Napoca
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
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