Raul is a Senior DevOps Engineer with 10+ years of technical know-how in the use of different cloud-based stacks to build high-quality architecture infrastructure and services on client projects. He is an ardent problem-solver, tackling ambiguous problems using a collaborative work approach to deliver the best results.
Delivering CI/CD as part of an Agile team to improve performance by automating and streamlining operations and processes.
Helping build and improve infrastructure, application, and performance development and ensuring tight security including data encryption, security groups, and environmental scanning.
Ensuring high-quality deliverables and implementing DevOps and security best practices in fast-paced environments.
Supported project teams to fully leverage digital architecture and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring availability of CI/CD tooling.
Fixed live performance and stability issues and prevented their recurrence.
Supported and advocated adoption of microservices architecture.
Provided support for DevOps processes and tooling chains, troubleshooting and resolving related issues.
Designed, developed, and implemented complex database models by administering commercial and open-source RDBMS (PostgreSQL clusters with Severalnines ClusterControl) or NoSQL.
Shaped and managed countrywide IT systems, Linux and Windows, physical and virtual architectures, and cloud infrastructure using Docker containers orchestrated by Kubernetes through Rancher.
Resurrected dropped-dead countrywide systems with scarce or no documentation (debugging and root cause analysis) and encouraged a shift from TFS to Git, manual operations to CI/CD, and monolith giants to microservices.
Provided cogent intelligence analysis to the department and various internal teams in written and oral form.
Participated in trend/correlation analysis and scenario forecasting at both the tactical and strategic level within the department.
Maintained confidentiality and ethics within the framework of the department's mode of engagement.
Served as a senior advisor and primary consultant for all strategic and tactical decisions and operational investigative actions within the department.
Led the implementation of intelligence analysis policies at the police county level.
Conducted intelligence analysis using law enforcement data to produce actionable leads for field agents working against crime within Salaj County.
The Romanian Gendarmerie is a military institution within the Ministry of Internal Affairs with functions including crime prevention, law enforcement, and protecting fundamental liberties.
The technical project led to more than 150 releases in 1.5 years, upgrading an unstable system into one that has run smoothly for over 2.5 years.
The improved system has increased user satisfaction and visibility, and is actively used countrywide by approximately 11K users.
Developed hardware infrastructure, virtual infrastructure, and database modelling for the Strategic Intelligence Analyst - National System for Incident Reporting project
Reduced system update/bug fixing downtime from days to minutes over an 8 year period while also reviving a related project
The system is used by the Romanian National Police with 55K users and contains more than 2 billion database rows (OLTP)
Worked on deployments through the Renault Digital Finance Hub CI/CD process and managed non-production environments
Provided first-line support for projects and improved efficiency by proposing new tools for the DevOps toolset and reducing data loading time by more than 6 times
Projects are at various stages of implementation, including one at Release 1.2, two heading towards MVP, and two focusing on data loading and mining
Developed a demo of a weather forecast impact algorithm highlighting its impact on national power transport infrastructure
Improved field team response to severe incidents by enabling them to reach locations hours ahead of incidents and fully prepared
Launched an upgraded system, TEGIS2, in 2014 that is now used internally by 400 active clients with no public-facing features
