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Daniel Ticu

Senior Cloud Engineer

Experienced Cloud Engineer specializing in AWS and GCloud scalable solutions, and Kubernetes deployment. Renowned for delivering high-quality, cost-effective cloud systems while balancing innovation with practicality.

EDUCATION

2020 – 2022

Master’s Degree – Computer Science
Politehnica University of Bucharest

2016 – 2020

Bachelor’s Degree – Computer Science
Politehnica University of Bucharest

EXPERTISE

Terraform, Kebernetes
AWS, GCloud
Grafana, Kibana
Jenkins, ArgoCD
Java, Spring, Python
CI/CD, Docker

WORK EXPERIENCE

2022 – Present

Senior Cloud Engineer at Softbinator Technologies

Family Safety and Social Networking App – client from U.S. (San Francisco)

  • Maintained and updated cloud platforms on AWS & GCP.
  • Managed applications and services using Java Spring and Kubernetes.
  • Ensured code quality with unit and automation tests.
  • Resolved incidents, wrote post-mortem reports, and implemented fixes.
  • Addressed code vulnerabilities and performed weekly production deployments (blue-green releases).
  • Created and updated Airflow automations with Python scripts.
  • Managed Snowflake databases.
  • Improved automated pipelines in GitHub Actions, Jenkins, CircleCI, and Buildkite.
  • Ensured scalability and high availability during peak traffic.
  • Provided on-call support for client incidents via PagerDuty alerts.
  • Tech Stack: AWS, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, Buildkite, Terraform, Java Spring, Python, DataDog, Opensearch, RabbitMQ, Blue/Green deployments, Trunk Based CI/CD

Video editing platform for world’s biggest content creators –clinet from U.S. and France

  • Designing cloud architecture for different applications based on the developer’s requirements
  • In charge of deployment, monitoring and debugging of cloud applications
  • Node provisioning and cost optimization using Karpenter
  • EKS application management using ArgoCD
  • In charge of managing and improving the platform for the developers
  • Implemented a continuous deployment process using ArgoCD image updater
  • Integrated and optimized the Grafana LGTM Stack
  • Improved the observability stack using the Opentelemetry Collector
  • Managing AWS costs at the platform level, AWS multi-account
  • Tech Stack: AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, Opentelemetry, Grafana LGTM, DataDog, GitLab Pipelines, AWS S3, SQS, Spaces

2020 – 2022

DevOps Engineer at Ericsson

  • Deployed to testing and production using Ansible, performed live server updates, and monitored applications with Grafana, Edna, and scripts.
  • Investigated incidents using OpenShift logs, Kibana, and ElasticSearch.
  • Managed user access with Keycloak and LDAP.
  • Customized portal branding with Keycloak Themes, Swagger UI, and Docker, tested and deployed to production.
  • Handled Ansible backups and rollbacks for deployments.
  • Monitored APIs for multiple clients via JBoss ESB and scripts.
  • Provided 24/7 on-call support for high-priority incidents.
  • Tech Stack: OpenShift, Ansible, Linux, Docker, SQL, Kubernetes, Jenkins, LDAP, Apache Directory, Keycloak, Kibana, ElasticSearch, Grafana