Dan Dascalescu

Designed and delivered a staged migration of EKS workload identities from IRSA to EKS Pod Identity using Terraform, maintaining credential continuity during cutover. Implemented RDS master-secret rotation and hardened KMS usage, and developed policy and monitoring controls to prevent enforcement and telemetry gaps.

Led migration of core identity services from EC2 to EKS using reusable Terraform modules, Helm charts, and ArgoCD ApplicationSets, delivering Kubernetes production markets and reducing dev-environment costs. Built and operated a cross-account DocumentDB migration service, modernized CI/CD runner infrastructure, and conducted multi-account security reviews supporting remediation efforts and reduced

Supported migration of production services from EC2 to EKS and ECS while driving consistent CI/CD and platform delivery practices. Hardened IAM, integrated Checkov into Terraform workflows, and implemented External Secrets Operator with IRSA.

Defined monitoring guidelines and actionable alerting standards across two interconnected customer platforms, aligning alert ownership with operational response.

Led technical planning and target architecture for migrating a Kubernetes-based AI platform from IBM infrastructure to AWS. Managed a cross-functional team and implemented security and platform best practices including Vault secrets management, logging, monitoring, and GPU autoscaling.

Operated on-premise Jenkins/Artifactory CI/CD and led its migration to AWS, including POC build-out, capacity planning, and pipeline modernization for improved build times and reliability. Improved developer build times from 4h+ locally to under 8 minutes in the cloud using spot instances with logging, notifications, and operational control.

Managed multi-cloud Kubernetes infrastructure across AWS and OCI using Rancher, promoting POC clusters to production worldwide while increasing capacity within budget. Implemented Jenkins pipelines and updated scripts to support growing infrastructure and operational demands.

Worked as a CloudOps Engineer at Insurance Business Applications, supporting cloud operations and delivery.

Worked as a DevOps / Application Operations Engineer at Netcentric while supporting UBS (CH) engagement requirements.

Worked as a Compute & Virtualization Engineer L2 at Vodafone Shared Services supporting the O2 engagement.

Worked as a System Administrator at Cloud Business Services.

Completed Bachelor and Master studies in Marketing Management at the Academy of Economic Studies in Bucharest from 2005 to 2010.