Florin-Iulian Asăvoaie
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Developer
Florin has more than 18 years of experience, specializing in large-scale automated deployments of Linux systems with an emphasis on security and performance. He always keeps his focus on clients' business requirements, and he sees tech as just another tool to boost the performance of a company, no matter what its market is. Recently, Florin has worked as a lead architect on a few major projects that have had amazing success, with the last role serving as CTO of a promising EU startup.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
JetBrains, GitHub, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux
The most amazing...
...feeling is when customers achieve business success by building sustainable products that can pass the test of time.
Work Experience
DevOps Architect
OpenReel
- Designed and built a 100% automated AWS architecture that auto-scales at all levels, putting security and cost efficiency on the front row.
- Developed all components needed to easily obtain multiple security certifications, including ISO 27001 and SOC2.
- Implemented full multi-region disaster recovery for the whole infrastructure and applications ecosystem.
Chief Technology Officer
FameUp
- Built a product development and engineering department to deliver the FameUp product to our customers and users.
- Improved the quality and speed of the development process significantly by heavily decreasing the number of bugs through better processes, making smarter decisions and prioritization, and hiring the right staff.
- Delivered business value (revenue increase) by developing a product customers want by thoroughly understanding their problems and needs.
Solutions Architect
Hindawi Publishing
- Acted as a guardian of technology best practices and proper solutions.
- Designed an event-driven architecture based on the orchestration saga.
- Owned the development processes, including CI/CD and software quality.
- Provided an architectural runway for building features.
- Supported both the business products as well as the open-source ecosystem that we built them around.
Software Architect
TSS Yonder
- Designed the architecture for a private cloud platform to deploy governmental SaaS applications in Netherlands.
- Performed audits of several software products, helping improve the software development process, quality, performance, security, and especially in implementation and running costs.
- Implemented security standards that were required by governmental regulations, PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and more.
- Assisted several development teams in improving their deliverables by making sound technological decisions and improving their software development processes and practices.
Linux Application Engineer
Betfair
- Performed maintenance tasks in development and test environments.
- Wrote deployment automation code (Chef and Puppet) for production use.
- Conducted pre-production, production, and post-production releases.
- Investigated performance and security issues in production environments, including PCI-DSS restricted areas.
- Worked as part of the architecture board in Cluj as a representative of the DevOps team.
- Implemented various internal systems on the development and test infrastructure (centralized authentication, automated environment, creation, and more).
System Administrators Supervisor
Lunarpages Internet Solutions
- Provided the last level of support for web hosting customers.
- Assisted and trained staff members in their day-to-day tasks.
- Implemented various internal tools and systems for bare-metal provisioning, monitoring, and more.
- Developed internal tools (PHP) for the CRM, desk, and more.
System Administrator
Lunarpages Internet Solutions
- Provided the last level of support for web hosting customers (cPanel shared environments and all kinds of dedicated server customers).
- Handled server monitoring and incident solving based on standardized monitoring solutions.
- Used Linux, cPanel, Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Exim.
Experience
Pinkroccade Local Government Private Cloud
Goals:
• Meet all security regulations for the industry.
• Implement end-to-end automation.
• Requires no manual interventions for any normal day-to-day workflows.
• Make data security a top priority, together with the general environment security.
Technologies: vSphere, NSX, vRA (orchestrating vSphere, NSX, and more), Terraform (integrating into vRA via a custom provider), Puppet (Bootstrap Nomad nodes), Docker (and a custom Docker IPAM driver for allocating NSX IPs via Linux IPvlan), Nomad (for container orchestration), Consul (for full-service discovery and configuration management), Vault (secret management, end-to-end internal communication encryption via short-lived certificates, credentials management), GlusterFS (distributed content management for automation), and WildFly (an application server for the Java-based apps).
Distributed PostgreSQL Cluster Manager
Goals:
• Optimize storage efficiency.
• Implement a very easy management system.
• Follow industry standards in terms of security (governmental institution).
• Completely audit the access to the applications and operators.
• Implement automatic provisioning of new clusters, backups, backup operations, and more.
Technologies: PostgreSQL, Linux/BTRFS, Ceph, Docker (with a custom Docker volume plugin), Terraform, Nomad, Consul, Vault, and Puppet.
FameUp
http://www.fameup.com/en/Technologically, the platform was made of a mobile and web app written in Flutter and several microservices written in PHP and Node.js.
As a CTO of the company, I was the lead architect and product manager.
Skills
Languages
Java, Python, Go, TypeScript 3, PHP, Ruby
Frameworks
OAuth 2, Express.js, Flutter
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React
Tools
Amazon CloudFront CDN, AWS CloudFormation, AWS IAM, NGINX, Git, Keycloak, Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server, Puppet, Terraform, Vault, Knex.js, JetBrains, Exim4, Chef, VMware, ELK (Elastic Stack), GitLab, GitHub, Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), HashiCorp
Paradigms
Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD), Microservices, Event-driven Architecture, Object-oriented Programming (OOP)
Platforms
Amazon EC2, Linux RHEL/CentOS, Linux, AWS Lambda, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, JBoss, WordPress, Windows Desktop, cPanel, JEE, Mobile
Storage
PostgreSQL, Database Administration (DBA), MySQL, Redis, Databases, Distributed Databases
Other
Performance Optimization, Server Security, Domain-driven Design (DDD), Consul, Nomad, HAProxy, Networks, Serverless, Linux Servers, RHEL, Product Development, User Experience (UX), Linux Server Administration, SDKs, Distributed Software
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