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Vlad Onetiu

Vlad Onetiu

DevSecOps | Software Automation Engineer
Cluj-Napoca

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
12
12
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

DevSecOps | Machine Learning Engineer

Steelcase
06.2024 - Current
  • Designed, implemented and evaluated new models and rapid software prototypes to solve problems in machine learning and systems engineering.
  • Developed custom machine learning algorithms for specific industry needs, resulting in improved performance and efficiency.
  • Worked closely with domain experts to ensure accurate representation of problem context within developed models, enhancing their real-world applicability.
  • Transformed raw data to conform to assumptions of machine learning algorithm.
  • Developed Machine Leaning infrastructures in Azure, GCP, AWS and data pipelines for training different models using Kubernetes and Serverless functions
  • Assured the entire infrastructure of the best Security Engineering best practices
  • Created complex architectures, designs for data pipelines and models operations

DevSecOps | Software Automation Engineer

Coera
11.2021 - 06.2024

- Deploy cloud infrastructure, infrastructure as code on AWS/Azure with Terraform and Ansible for configurations
- Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD - Jenkins/Bitbucket Actions)

- Build client's environments(test, acc, production) from scratch in VPC architecture, and deployed the application and the microservices with multiple Docker containers which communicated with each other to create the app ecosystem
- Cloud architecture design
- DevSecOps (SSL certificates for WEB and for the FIX connection, accountability for DAST and on the findings)
- Conducted large scale operations and provided guidance for the rest of the project team in the most critical situations
- Assumed critical operations decisions for releases/deployments

- Guided team members in their tasks

- Worked on behalf of the project for the biggest banks in Europe and had direct contact with the stakeholders within those banks

- Had direct alignments with the stakeholders of the project for the technical problems/improvements of the project and acted also as Team Leader/PO for DevSecOps & Software Automation areas in multiple ocassions

- designed the job interviews plan and interviewed candidates for DevOps & Software Automation positions


- Monitoring tools: Zabbix, Wazuh, Grafana, Opensearch

Top researches done:

[Snapshots-AMIs] Instance recovery procedure

[Snapshots-AMIs] Automatic backup procedure

[Snapshots-AMIs] Recovery-Restore procedure

FIX connection TLS certificate monitoring using EC2 extraction

FIX connection TLS certificate monitoring using EC2 extraction and Jenkins

FIX connection TLS certificate monitoring using EC2 extraction and Jenkins with Zabbix integration

IAM – Keycloak TLS Monitoring Over Single Sign On Certificates Using EC2 Extraction

IAM – Keycloak TLS Monitoring Over Single Sign On Certificates | Jenkins Integration

IAM – Keycloak TLS Monitoring Over Single Sign On Certificates | Jenkins & Zabbix Integration

First Mobile Application Build On Custom MacOS Docker OSX Image – CI/CD Integration With Jenkins

End to End Protractor tests Jenkins-Docker infrastructure – with Keycloak

ERP Connection for retrieving financial orders – Integration using a custom Python client

Jenkins Integration Architecture for Jmeter Performance tests and results data plotting in Python

FIX Connection integration in AWS – VPC infrastructure using a NLB

Optimisations in backup procedure using ZIP and S3 upload for big files - Ansible and Jenkins

Analysis on backup procedure (Zip and S3 upload) – spikes in I/O CPU Usage - Ansible and Jenkins

Infrastructure as a code with AWS WAF and Ansible – Managed Rules & Custom Whitelisting Rules

Jenkins jobs using slaves through AWS – Auto Scaling with Launch Configurations/Launch Templates


Software Automation Engineer

Coera
11.2018 - 06.2024

•Implementation of an automated structure of testing from scratch based on Protractor framework, integrated with an Angular + Spring Boot financial application
•Building the entire testing architecture from stage 0 to a stable solution which was executed in a automated way on every production version;
•The Angular testing concept was based mainly on OOP paradigm, through Typescript & JavaScript. Using page objects to separate the test specs from the framework backend part.
•Built the entire deployment testing pipeline using virtualisation focused on Docker containers, and orchestrate it by Jenkins shell scripts
•Built the solution for performance automated testing of the application's APIs. Every endpoint was treated in isolation and was measured to see if there are some performance leaks. Here were used tools like JMeter and Taurus framework on top, and embed all in a Jenkins deployment job through scripts
•Analysed and validated the security of the Spring Boot application API's in terms of field validation, business segregation of roles, error handling on different request injection approaches. Proposed new solutions where there were possible security vulnerabilities
•Analysis of the authentication part through an IAM solution, based on Keycloak. Improving the authentication flow within the application on the technical side that involves the generation of access tokens, their persistence and their business interpretation through the application.
•Conducted data migration tasks in code written in Java.

•Designing and creating integrations in the ERP module to work for different finance clients and discussing them directly with the stakeholders and clients

Software Engineer Trainee

National Instruments
09.2017 - 07.2018

Working part time for an intern project and for the license thesis:


Modelation, and real time simulation of a DC Motor with LabVIEW; Built from the mathematical equations to a virtual modelation a Proportional Integral controller,to control the speed of the motor;

•Testing of the DC Motor through real time sequences, using Stimulus ProfileEditor;

Software Engineer Trainee

National Instruments
06.2016 - 09.2016

Education

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca
10.2020 - Current

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
Cluj-Napoca
10.2014 - 05.2018

High School Diploma -

Informatics Highschool "Tiberiu Popoviciu"
Cluj-Napoca
09.2010 - 06.2014

Skills

    Cloud design

AWS

AZURE

Jenkins

Serverless

Security Engineering

Linux

Software

Python

Java

C

C

Bash

Certification

Criptography I - Stanford

Projects


DataIceberg

Personal project in Data Research https://dataiceberg.com/blog
Top researches:
- Custom autoscaling for Earthquake notification system with Confluent Kafka and AWS Lambda

- Serverless Earthquake notification system with Confluent Kafka and AWS Lambda using

multithreading and custom Dynamo concurrency control -> Presented at multiple cloud conferences
- Data streaming using Kiwi data with Confluent Kafka and SocketIO for a Flask Consumer – Broadcast topics data per socket room

- Data streaming using Kiwi data with Confluent Kafka and SocketIO for a Flask Consumer – Broadcast same data
- Trains Data extraction service – Consumers – Flask | Messaging Bots

- Trains Data extraction service in Serverless – Lambda | S3| ECR | EventBridge | SNS Part 2 - Data extraction from a train ticket platform – Part 1
- Flight Tickets Data extraction and price engine service – Consumers – Flask | Messaging Bots
- Flight Tickets Data extraction and price engine service in Serverless – Lambda | S3| ECR | EventBridge | SNS Part 2
- Data extraction from a flight ticket platform - Part 1


CYBOV

Personal project in cyber security http://cybov.com/blog
Top researches:
- Analysis of a bank card smishing attack using Posta Romana – Obfuscated JS and real time API Calls -> Presented at DefCamp Cluj-Napoca 2024 

- Analysis on 3D Secure for top Romanian Banks

- Analysing 'missed voicemails' phishing attack with Python
- Anatomy of a WP-VCD backdoor malware attack

- Card theft with phishing email scheme using Netflix


XNEURON

Personal project in Data Research https://xneuron.com
Top researches:

- Anomaly detection for AWS WAF Events using Machine Learning – LSTM in SageMaker and AWS Lambda

- Flights prices predictions using LSTM and SageMaker with Lambda

- Anomaly detection for AWS WAF Events using Machine Learning – Isolation Forest 

Accomplishments

  • Being able to present at Serverless/DevOpsCon conferences the "SEISMIA" project which is related to dataiceberg project
  • Presented SEISMIA Project at DevOps Barcelona
  • Presented SEISMIA at AWS Days Romania first edition 2024
  • Presented SEISMIA at Cloud Native Days Bucharest 2025
  • Presented at DefCamp 2024 the research paper "Analysis of a bank card smishing attack using Posta Romana – Obfuscated JS and real time API Calls"
  • Being invited in Google's exclusive Foobar coding challenge where I resolved some programming problems.

Volunteering

- Volunteer at Romanian Cyber Security Directorate from 01.09.2023

Timeline

DevSecOps | Machine Learning Engineer

Steelcase
06.2024 - Current

CertiPort IT Specialist - CyberSecurity

08-2023

Kubernetes for the Absolute Beginners - Hands-on Tutorial - KodeKloud

07-2023

Cisco - Cybersecurity Essentials

07-2023

Unlocking Information Security I - Tel Aviv University & EDX

07-2023

Unlocking Information Security II - Tel Aviv University & EDX

07-2023

DevSecOps | Software Automation Engineer

Coera
11.2021 - 06.2024

Criptography I - Stanford

04-2021

Master of Science - Computer Engineering

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
10.2020 - Current

Software Automation Engineer

Coera
11.2018 - 06.2024

Software Engineer Trainee

National Instruments
09.2017 - 07.2018

Software Engineer Trainee

National Instruments
06.2016 - 09.2016

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca
10.2014 - 05.2018

High School Diploma -

Informatics Highschool "Tiberiu Popoviciu"
09.2010 - 06.2014
Vlad OnetiuDevSecOps | Software Automation Engineer