Victor Palade
Verified Expert in Engineering
DevOps Engineer and Software Developer
Zug, Switzerland
Toptal member since June 28, 2024
Victor is a cloud infrastructure and software engineer with 10+ years of experience creating robust and efficient solutions focused on distributed systems, containers, and cloud-native applications. He works with AWS, Azure, Cloudflare, Terraform, and Ansible and is skilled in technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, GitOps, Rust, TypeScript, Python, and Vue. Currently, Victor is developing his own cloud provider, Nubium Cloud, and an infrastructure as code (IaC) tool called Skycrane.
Portfolio
Experience
- Kubernetes - 9 years
- CI/CD Pipelines - 7 years
- Go - 6 years
- Cloud Infrastructure - 6 years
- Bazel - 5 years
- Rust - 3 years
- Terraform - 3 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Linux, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rust, Go, Cloud Infrastructure, Bazel, CI/CD Pipelines, Terraform, Cloudflare
The most amazing...
...projects I've worked on are my own cloud provider, Nubium Cloud, and a new IaC tool called Skycrane.
Work Experience
Individual Contributor | Founder
Cloudflavor
- Served as an open-source developer building a cloud-computing platform focused on Europe, emphasizing managed Kubernetes clusters.
- Built in-house tooling for IaC in Rust with technologies such as WebAssembly.
- Provided research and development services for LLM inference and training with Kubeflow, Cloudflare AI, Scaleway, and DigitalOcean's Paperspace.
- Developed Skycrane, an IaC tool for the cloud that uses Starlark.
- Offered consultancy and numerous software and cloud infrastructure services for customers.
Senior Software Engineer
DECTRIS
- Developed and maintained system updates, APIs, and applications for detectors using Rust, Go, Python, gRPC, Vue, Ansible, Kubernetes, Argo CD, Bazel, and Concourse.
- Built and improved numerous deployments for in-house infrastructure and applications.
- Contributed to developing in-house user interfaces using Vue and designing the next-generation image analysis viewer Albula 2.
- Created, maintained, and improved the testing and release CI/CD pipeline.
- Refactored X-ray legacy systems to enhance efficiency.
- Designed services that integrated X-ray detectors with calibration and testing systems.
- Advocated for the adoption of Rust as a primary language, improving code quality and efficiency and reducing bugs.
- Wrote, maintained, and refactored existing Bazel rules to improve functionality and maintainability.
Software Engineer
Adidas Malaysia
- Designed and implemented an AWS architecture for the adidas eCommerce platform by extensively using Terraform for IaC provisioning.
- Created and maintained cloud application infrastructure at scale using various AWS services such as API Gateway, EC2, ECS, Lambda, Step Functions, CodePipeline, S3, SNS, SQS, Route 53, and IAM.
- Utilized Jenkins for CI pipeline creation and management.
- Maintained Java and Node.js services on Kubernetes with Kafka integration for event-driven architectures.
Software Engineer
Red Hat
- Enhanced features and resolved issues in OpenShift's build system, specifically designed for developers and streamlining DevOps, as part of the developer experience team.
- Maintained and improved "getting started" examples for technologies such as Node.js, Django, and other popular frameworks and languages.
- Contributed to developing and maintaining the team's primary build application, Source-to-Image (S2I).
- Provided small contributions to the Kubernetes project.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of build system features and examples.
- Participated in code reviews and provided constructive feedback to maintain high-quality standards.
- Engaged actively with the open-source community by submitting pull requests to OpenShift, participating in discussions and providing feedback on OpenShift-related topics, and attending and contributing to Red Hat community meetings and events.
Network Administrator
AT&T
- Wrote scripts to enhance efficiency and automation in the team's monitoring solution.
- Maintained Dockerized infrastructure applications for the team, albeit on a limited scale.
- Updated parts of the monitoring system for legacy platforms with high data traffic to ensure compatibility and performance using Perl, PHP, and Python.
- Monitored data services, data accelerators, API gateways, MMS, and prepaid platforms for Ericsson MSP.
- Focused on troubleshooting application-related issues, provisioning, service validation, and upgrading software.
- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to resolve issues and ensure smooth operation of monitored services.
Telco Support Engineer
AT&T
- Improved the entire department's efficiency and gained significant cost savings by developing a shell script that automated the process of pulling VSWR and cell tower readings, reducing manual effort and time spent on data collection.
- Documented changes before and after vendor work on various cell site types, including BTS, NodeB, and eNodeB.
- Collaborated with vendors to ensure accurate documentation and seamless implementation of changes.
Experience
Kubernetes Release Docs
http://www.kubernetes.io/As the documentation release lead, I supported a team of open-source contributors, managing issues and bugs related to the Kubernetes documentation version 1.22 release.
Certifications
Linux Foundation Certified System Administrator (LFCS)
Linux Foundation
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Protobuf, Vue, Node.js
Tools
Terraform, GitHub, NGINX, Bazel, Packer, Logging, Jenkins, Artifactory, Kibana, GitLab, Ansible, Concourse CI, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Step Functions, Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), AWS IAM
Languages
Go, Rust, Python, Bash, PHP, JavaScript, Groovy, TypeScript, Java, Perl
Frameworks
gRPC, Svelte, KubeEdge, Django
Paradigms
DevOps, Agile, REST, High-performance Computing (HPC), Event-driven Architecture
Platforms
Linux, Kubernetes, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), OpenShift, Apache Kafka, Azure, Knative, Kubeflow, Amazon EC2, AWS Lambda, Red Hat OpenShift
Storage
Redis, Elasticsearch, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), SUSE, PostgreSQL
Other
CI/CD Pipelines, Linux System Administration, Open Source, Cloud Computing, DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Cloud Infrastructure, Cloudflare, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES), Ubuntu Server, GitOps, Prometheus, Distributed Systems, Architecture, APIs, Long-term Evolution (LTE), UMTS, Telecom Equipment & Solutions, RHEL, Release Management, Documentation, Team Leadership, System Administration, Skylark, Scaleway, Paperspace, Argo CD, WebAssembly (Wasm), Amazon API Gateway, AWS CodePipeline, Amazon Route 53, Collaboration, Network Administration, API Gateways, Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), Cross-functional Collaboration, OpenTelemetry
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