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.
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.
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 specialized institution with a military status within the Ministry of Internal Affairs that by law protects public order and safety, citizens’ rights and fundamental liberties, public and private property, and works on crime prevention and detection and other infringements of laws into force, as well as protection of the state’s fundamental institutions and countering of terrorist acts. Delivered more than 150 releases in 1.5 years, moving the solution from a system that used to “die” 5-10 times a week to a system that has been running smoothly for the last 2.5 years. Improved end-user satisfaction and project outcome visibility. The system is used countrywide with 11K active users.
Worked on the design of hardware infrastructure, virtual infrastructure, database modelling, installation and configuration (early days), updates, and upgrades. Onboarded new team members and coordinated the Ops team. Improved the system over the last 8 years, reducing update/bug fixing downtime from days to minutes, and revived another project that interacted with this one. It is used internally by the Romanian National Police with 55K users and >2 billion database rows (OLTP).
Worked on deployments through the Renault Digital Finance Hub CI/CD process and managed the non-production environments on projects. Provided first-line support to help projects overcome roadblocks, making sure that all processes run smoothly, fast, and stable. Proposed new tools for the DevOps toolset and reduced project data loading time by >6 times. Projects are at different stages of implementation: one project – Release 1.2, two (2) projects are heading towards MVP, and the final two (2) are data projects for loading and mining data.
Worked on a demo of the weather forecast impact (algorithm) showing different levels of impact on the power transport infrastructure at a national level. Reduced the time for field team response to severe incidents from several hours later to being at the location where an incident might occur several hours ahead and fully prepared. The system was launched in 2014 (evolving from TEGIS to TEGIS2) and is used internally by clients (400 active users) with no public-facing side/features.
Education
Bachelor's and Master's Degrees, Law and Legal Studies
