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(Updated 2020-01-08)Cloud native architect
Västerbottens län, Sverige
Beginner French, Svenska, English, Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan, German
- DevOps
- Cloud
- Kubernetes
Skills (33)
Kubernetes
Cloud
Docker
Jenkins
DevOps
GENERATORS
BGP
GCP
LOGGING
BUDGET
ARCHITECTURE
Marketing
Elasticsearch
SCHEDULING
ETL
Data Analysis
Cisco
Machine Learning
PUPPET
OSPF
DNS
VLAN
Dev ops
NETWORKING
GRID COMPUTING
Hadoop
MARKETING ANALYSIS
API
CONTAINERIZATION
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
MongoDB
TEACHING
HPC
Summary
Cristian is a senior DevOps engineer at Elastisys and researcher in cloud
computing at Umeå University. He has gathered 15 years of experience in
software engineering (DevOps), networking, distributed systems, cloud
computing, high-performance computing and machine learning, both as a
researcher and as a practitioner.
His experience steams from working as a chief cloud architect in a start-up, as
an IT consultant, through national and EU research projects, as well as
operating the Romanian National Research and Education Network.
Professional Experience
Senior DevOps Engineer
Elastisys
2017-01 - Present
Cristian has worked in projects in sectors such as payment processing, medtech,
online marketplaces and betting analytics as well as holding workshops in a
broad set of industries. Cristian has also been involved in internal product
initiatives like Elastisys' security and compliance focused Kubernetes
distribution.
● projects: architecture, workshops, R&D projects and hands-on
implementation around automation, performance and availability
aspects for cloud workloads
● keywords: DevOps, cloud architecture, automation, AWS/GCP, cloud
native technologies, containerization, CI/CD, orchestration,
observability, networking
online marketplaces and betting analytics as well as holding workshops in a
broad set of industries. Cristian has also been involved in internal product
initiatives like Elastisys' security and compliance focused Kubernetes
distribution.
● projects: architecture, workshops, R&D projects and hands-on
implementation around automation, performance and availability
aspects for cloud workloads
● keywords: DevOps, cloud architecture, automation, AWS/GCP, cloud
native technologies, containerization, CI/CD, orchestration,
observability, networking
Researcher
Umeå University
2016-01 - 2016-01
Sweden (2500 faculty, 36000 students)
Elastisys, Tvistevägen 47, 907 29 Umeå
Elastisys provides products and services for scalable and responsive IT systems, with an emphasis on predictive auto-scaling with multi-cloud capabilities. Elastisys products and services extend on decades of internationally leading research in distributed systems,
high performance computing, and autonomous management of virtualized resources. Elastisys was founded in 2011 and is a spin-off
company from the renown distributed systems research group at Umeå University.
● keywords: distributed clouds, performance, DevOps, mobile edge
clouds
● context: Wallenberg Autonomous Systems Proposal:
http://wasp-sweden.org/
● teaching: Cloud Computing (course responsible), Distributed Systems
(guest lecturer), WASP graduate school on Cloud Computing (organiser and lecturer)
Elastisys, Tvistevägen 47, 907 29 Umeå
Elastisys provides products and services for scalable and responsive IT systems, with an emphasis on predictive auto-scaling with multi-cloud capabilities. Elastisys products and services extend on decades of internationally leading research in distributed systems,
high performance computing, and autonomous management of virtualized resources. Elastisys was founded in 2011 and is a spin-off
company from the renown distributed systems research group at Umeå University.
● keywords: distributed clouds, performance, DevOps, mobile edge
clouds
● context: Wallenberg Autonomous Systems Proposal:
http://wasp-sweden.org/
● teaching: Cloud Computing (course responsible), Distributed Systems
(guest lecturer), WASP graduate school on Cloud Computing (organiser and lecturer)
Chief Backend and Cloud Architect
SimScale GmbH
2015-02 - 2015-12
Germany (start-up, 35 employees)
● keywords: cloud, infrastructure, storage, performance, scalability,
micro-services, DevOps, automation, outsourcing
● technologies: Docker, REST, AWS, Python, scripting, Java, Maven, git
Achievements:
● published 5 international conference articles; held 1 conference
presentation
● improved development process through testing automation and deployment automation
● devised operating plan for the infrastructure team
● supervised 4 people (1 DevOps engineer, 2 developers, 1 master student)
● lectured on git, micro-services, REST and Docker
● involved in hiring: wrote profiles, created assignments and interviewed
candidates
● wrote a blog article, highly appreciated by marketing and sales
● keywords: cloud, infrastructure, storage, performance, scalability,
micro-services, DevOps, automation, outsourcing
● technologies: Docker, REST, AWS, Python, scripting, Java, Maven, git
Achievements:
● published 5 international conference articles; held 1 conference
presentation
● improved development process through testing automation and deployment automation
● devised operating plan for the infrastructure team
● supervised 4 people (1 DevOps engineer, 2 developers, 1 master student)
● lectured on git, micro-services, REST and Docker
● involved in hiring: wrote profiles, created assignments and interviewed
candidates
● wrote a blog article, highly appreciated by marketing and sales
Post-doctoral researcher in Cloud Computing
Umeå University
2013-01 - 2015-01
Sweden (2500 faculty, 36000 students)
● keywords: Cloud; performance models; vertical elasticity; robustness
to capacity shortage; resource management; BGP anycast / failover
● context: Swedish VR Cloud Control and EU FP7 ORBIT projects
● collaborations: Lund University, TU Wien, RedHat
Achievements:
● published 8 international conference articles (1 best paper award);
held 8 presentations
● supervised 1 undergraduate student; supervising 1 master student and
1 PhD student
● prepared and taught 7 lectures and tutorials on clouds, performance,
security, distributed databases (Cassandra)
● contributed to VR and EU grant writing
● published 1 patch-set for open-source software (libvirt) in collaboration with RedHat
● keywords: Cloud; performance models; vertical elasticity; robustness
to capacity shortage; resource management; BGP anycast / failover
● context: Swedish VR Cloud Control and EU FP7 ORBIT projects
● collaborations: Lund University, TU Wien, RedHat
Achievements:
● published 8 international conference articles (1 best paper award);
held 8 presentations
● supervised 1 undergraduate student; supervising 1 master student and
1 PhD student
● prepared and taught 7 lectures and tutorials on clouds, performance,
security, distributed databases (Cassandra)
● contributed to VR and EU grant writing
● published 1 patch-set for open-source software (libvirt) in collaboration with RedHat
PhD Candidate in High-Performance Computing
INRIA, France, research institute
2009-10 - 2012-12
in computer science and automation (3400 researchers, 250 M€ budget)
registered at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (350 researchers, 400 PhD students, 110 M€ budget)
● title: Multi-level Cooperative Resource Management
● keywords: Cluster and Grid computing; high-performance computing;
parallel and distributed systems; scheduling
● context: National Research Agency (ANR) project involving both
academic and industrial partners (EDF R&D)
Elastisys, Tvistevägen 47, 907 29 Umeå
Elastisys provides products and services for scalable and responsive IT systems, with an emphasis on predictive auto-scaling with multi-cloud capabilities. Elastisys products and services extend on decades of internationally leading research in distributed systems,
high performance computing, and autonomous management of virtualized resources. Elastisys was founded in 2011 and is a spin-off
company from the renown distributed systems research group at Umeå University.
Achievements:
● published 3 international conference articles; held 10 presentations (1 best presentation award)
● contributed to software of SysFera (an INRIA start-up) and SimGrid (a distributed systems simulator)
● supervised 1 master student and 1 engineer
registered at École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (350 researchers, 400 PhD students, 110 M€ budget)
● title: Multi-level Cooperative Resource Management
● keywords: Cluster and Grid computing; high-performance computing;
parallel and distributed systems; scheduling
● context: National Research Agency (ANR) project involving both
academic and industrial partners (EDF R&D)
Elastisys, Tvistevägen 47, 907 29 Umeå
Elastisys provides products and services for scalable and responsive IT systems, with an emphasis on predictive auto-scaling with multi-cloud capabilities. Elastisys products and services extend on decades of internationally leading research in distributed systems,
high performance computing, and autonomous management of virtualized resources. Elastisys was founded in 2011 and is a spin-off
company from the renown distributed systems research group at Umeå University.
Achievements:
● published 3 international conference articles; held 10 presentations (1 best presentation award)
● contributed to software of SysFera (an INRIA start-up) and SimGrid (a distributed systems simulator)
● supervised 1 master student and 1 engineer
Teaching Assistant
University of Lyon
2010-01 - 2012-01
1, France (2630 lecturers, 35000 students, 395 M€ budget)
● Held tutorials and discussion sessions on: Compilers, Databases,
Performance Evaluation, Software Engineering
● Held tutorials and discussion sessions on: Compilers, Databases,
Performance Evaluation, Software Engineering
Internship in the Arénaire
Dinechin at Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme
2008-03 - 2008-05
march 2008 - may 2008 Internship in the Arénaire research team under the supervision of Florent de
Dinechin at Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme, Lyon, France Desc
● Research on implementing arithmetic operations on FPGAs using a
VHDL generator
● Research on implementing true random number generators on FPGAs
● Achievement: published 2 international conference article
Dinechin at Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme, Lyon, France Desc
● Research on implementing arithmetic operations on FPGAs using a
VHDL generator
● Research on implementing true random number generators on FPGAs
● Achievement: published 2 international conference article
Network Engineer
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca and RoEduNet Cluj Branch
2005-04 - 2008-02
Romania
● managed core, access routers and switches (mostly Cisco hardware)
and Linux-based web and email servers
● keywords: OSPF, BGP, firewall, traffic shaping, NAT, VLAN, IPv6,
multicast
Achievements:
● planned and implemented wired network and server upgrades
● completed public camera access project (http://cam.utcluj.ro)
● managed core, access routers and switches (mostly Cisco hardware)
and Linux-based web and email servers
● keywords: OSPF, BGP, firewall, traffic shaping, NAT, VLAN, IPv6,
multicast
Achievements:
● planned and implemented wired network and server upgrades
● completed public camera access project (http://cam.utcluj.ro)
Software Developer / IT Freelancer
VWorker.com
2003-11 - 2004-10
ranked top 5%, rated 10 out of 10) at VWorker.com (former RentACoder)
Academic Background
Umeå University
Umeå University
2020-01 - 2010-01
MSc in Fundamental Computer Science
École Normale Supérieure de Lyon
2020-01 - 2009-01
BSc
Technical University of Cluj
2020-01 - 2008-01