Vlad Cristian Stoianovici
Systems Engineer
Brasov,Romania
Summary
Seasoned Systems Engineer with 15+ years of experience developing, deploying, maintaining and monitoring solutions for distributed systems at scale. Familiar with user support and root cause analysis. Advanced hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes operations and Workflow Automation in project based remote teams, exposed to multiple programming languages and technology stacks. Always curious and motivated to learn and grow.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
17
17
years of post-secondary education
4
4
Languages
Work History
Senior Support Engineer
Gitlab Inc.
Remote
05.2019 - Current
- Keywords: Automation, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Observability, Distributed Systems Troubleshooting, HA and Scaleout, Terraform, Ansible, CI/CD, Git, GCP, AWS.
- Breaking down and evaluated end-user problems, using test scripts, personal expertise and probing questions.
- Developing tools to lessen or eliminate operational burdens for teammates primarily by employing Terraform, Ansible and Bash scripting in Gitlab CI/CD pipelines..
- Helping streamline workflows/processes and update procedures for support action consistency within the Support Organization by constantly experimenting and supporting others' experiments
- Collaborating with outside departments to implement system-wide improvements.
- Working with software development team on reported errors and bugs on newly released software and assisted in deployment of release fixes (GET).
- Helping with hiring technical interviews and assessments.
- Mentoring new hires on that path to Senior
- Improving documentation and adhering to the SSOT philosophy
- Being a bridge between the wider Support team and the Product groups to share information both ways .
- Advocating the customers' perspective in product forums to influence product decisions.
- Being part of the on-call customer emergency rotation.
Senior Support Engineer
Caringo Inc. (now Datacore)
Remote
01.2015 - 04.2019
- Keywords: Object Storage, SCSP, S3, Distributed Systems, Automation, Cloud Storage, Cold Storage, Cloud on Premise, Hybrid Cloud Storage,Elasticsearch, Linux, Networking, Disaster Recovery, Python, Bash, Javascript, Go, Docker, Microservices, HA, Jenkins
- Developed Customer facing tools (Bash scripting / Python / Golang, Javascript)
- Automated deployment workflows (both internal and customer facing)
- Observability through Metrics (internal tool) and Logs (Kibana).
- Customer Support, Live Troubleshooting and Root Cause Analysis (Linux admin, Distributed System Management, Log Diving, System auditing).
- Performance Testing, Smoke Testing or Feature Testing (creating acceptance criteria, test cases)
- Evaluated Compatibility and Recommending Hardware (Physical Storage Servers and Network), but also Virtual Components (from Hypervisior to guiding customers through VMs and Containers Best Practices)
- Did Technical Writing (Design Documentation, Product Documentation, Customer Training Resources)
External Lecturer
Universitatea Transilvania, Transilvania Unversity
Brasov, Romania
01.2010 - 07.2018
- Presented students with hands-on workshops on Web Applications Basics and Multimedia Technologies, Linux Server basics or Networking basics.
Software Developer
Resources, Siemens PSE Healthcare
Brasov, Romania
01.2011 - 01.2015
- Keywords: Automation, Orchestration, Deployment, C++, Javascript, Java, Python, Powershell, IT PAM, SQL Server 2008 and 2014, ClearCase, Quality Center, AccuRev, Agile, etc.
- Developed, automated, and maintained a Hospital Information System deployment framework.
- Maintained legacy deployment monolithic framework (legacy C++, Java and Python code).
- Designed and developed an iterative process for gradual transition from a Monolithic C++/Python deployment tool to a decentralized automation framework (mostly javascript functional blocks) for increased resilience, predictability, observability and for minimizing downtime.
- Was part of the on-call customer emergency rotation.
Education
Ph.D. - Telecommunications Engineering
Transilvania University of Brasov
Brasov, Romania; Cagliari, Italy 07.2008 - 11.2011
Erasmus PhD Stage - Telecommunications Engineering
Università Degli Studi Di Cagliari
Cagliari, Italy 03.2009 - 01.2011
Master of Science - Virtual Reality and Robotics
Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna of Pisa
Pisa, Itally 09.2003 - 11.2010
Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications
Transilvania University
Brasov 06.2003 - 06.2008
Skills
Hands-on Kubernetes experience
Hands-on experience running and troubleshooting distributed large scale systems
Hands-on experience in Infrastructure as Code automations (Terraform)
Hands-on experience with Configuration Management (Ansible))
Software Development and Scripting (Bash, Golang, Rails, Javascript)
Linux sysadmin
Websites
Accomplishments
- Certified Kubernets Administrator (CKA)
- Created several projects that streamline and reduce the operational burden for my team (100+ engineers) by fully automating the provisioning of key resources and making the entire process predictable, reliable, easily maintainable and transparent.
- Created a customer facing Support Ticket attachment Uploader Tool that was using Javascript to interact with our core technology and in so showcasing a use case (dogfooding). The tool was 6x faster than its predecessor.
- Developed a Multi-layer FeedForward Artificial Neural Network Classifier in Go that identifies hand written digits with an accuracy of 97.72%.
Timeline
Senior Support Engineer
Gitlab Inc.
05.2019 - Current
Senior Support Engineer
Caringo Inc. (now Datacore)
01.2015 - 04.2019
Software Developer
Resources, Siemens PSE Healthcare
01.2011 - 01.2015
External Lecturer
Universitatea Transilvania, Transilvania Unversity
01.2010 - 07.2018
Erasmus PhD Stage - Telecommunications Engineering
Università Degli Studi Di Cagliari
03.2009 - 01.2011
Ph.D. - Telecommunications Engineering
Transilvania University of Brasov
07.2008 - 11.2011
Master of Science - Virtual Reality and Robotics
Scuola Superiore Sant' Anna of Pisa
09.2003 - 11.2010
Bachelor of Science - Telecommunications
Transilvania University
06.2003 - 06.2008