Radu Dobrinescu
Verified Expert in Engineering
AWS Certified Solution Architect Developer
Bucharest, Romania
Toptal member since July 29, 2019
A seasoned solutions architect with over 17 years of enterprise experience, Radu excels at designing cloud-native infrastructures with deep expertise in Kubernetes and DevOps. His extensive work with machine learning frameworks like Ray and vLLMs, combined with hands-on experience implementing cloud-native solutions and several AWS and CNCF certifications, positions him as a trusted advisor for organizations seeking to leverage both cloud and AI technologies for digital transformation.
Portfolio
Experience
- Kubernetes - 6 years
- AWS Certified Solution Architect - 6 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 5 years
- Amazon EKS - 4 years
- DevOps - 4 years
- Amazon Bedrock - 2 years
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) - 2 years
- Terraform - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Amazon Bedrock, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
The most amazing...
...solution I've implemented is a web app on Kubernetes with a Kafka cluster for messaging.
Work Experience
Senior Partner Solutions Architect
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Developed a secure and scalable landing zone that is mapped to the custom operating model of a large financial customer in a highly regulated industry.
- Optimized the cost of an enterprise platform on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS). Enabled EC2 Spot Instance and Karpenter auto scaler adoption.
- Designed, implemented, and optimized several cloud deployments to meet the AWS standards and best practices regarding security, performance, reliability, operational excellence, or cost optimization.
Cloud Solutions Architect
Oracle
- Designed, reviewed, and supported enterprise solutions on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. (OCI).
- Developed technical blogs, whitepaper demos, and solutions to evangelize cloud offerings.
- Created custom collateral solutions such as automated backups of volume groups, and automated provisioning of services.
- Designed microservices architectures using Kubernetes cluster, Istio, and Weblogic operator for Kubernetes.
Cloud System Developer
Cloudreach
- Delivered cloud managed services for customers in the DACH region.
- Implemented, developed, and automated cloud infrastructures on the Amazon Web Services public cloud infrastructure.
- Leveraged tools like Vagrant, Chef for on-premise virtualization and infrastructure automation and configuration management.
- Adopted the latest trends and technologies such as serverless computing (AWS Lambda), implementing DevOps strategies for continuous integration and continuous deployment (Jenkins).
Middleware Administrator
Eurofighter Jagdflugzeug
- Served as the subject matter expert on middleware technology responsible for continuous performance monitoring and improvement.
- Fine-tuned performance of JVM runtime for all components. Deep dive analysis performed on garbage collector algorithms such as heap stack.
- Identified areas for continual improvement and pitched technical solutions to stakeholders. Implemented and integrated new technology such as the Coherence data grid to further improve the performance of the platform.
Fusion Middleware Consultant
Oracle
- Architected middleware infrastructures for large enterprise deployments to ensure resilience and seamless performance of the platform.
- Led a team of SI technical consultants in various projects for implementation.
- Developed custom solutions not covered by product features such as the coordinated lifecycle management of various components in the architecture, automated backups and deployments.
Experience
Node.js on AWS with CI/CD
All updates were seamlessly pushed through Jenkins pipelines.
Containerized App on K8s
CI/CD is performed with Spinnaker. My role in the project was to design the architecture and integrate the application with the OCI cloud environment (configure native cloud Load Balancer service as K8s ingress service and design application persistence on cloud storage).
REST API with Python and Flask
https://github.com/radudobrinescu/flask-aws-devopsEducation
Master's Degree in ERP
Academy of Economic Science - Bucharest, Romania
Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Bucharest - Bucharest, Romania
Certifications
AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Data Analytics - Specialty
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
Amazon Web Services
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
AWS
Certified Kubernetes Administrator
The Linux Foundation
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Architect Associate 2018
Oracle
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Jenkins Pipeline, Flask-RESTful
Tools
Docker Hub, Oracle Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Amazon EKS, Terraform, Ansible, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Jenkins, GitHub, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Frameworks
AWS HA, Flask
Paradigms
DevOps, Service-oriented Architecture (SOA)
Platforms
Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux, Oracle, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Unix, WebCenter, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), Amazon EC2, Amazon
Storage
Oracle Cloud, Oracle RDS, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)
Languages
Python, Bash, SQL
Other
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), AWS DevOps, Solution Architecture, AWS Certified Solution Architect, Amazon Bedrock, Oracle PaaS, GitOps, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Oracle Fusion Middleware, WebLogic, Amazon RDS, Relational Database Services (RDS), Networking, Direct Connect (DC), Analytics, Big Data
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