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Mircea Stefanescu

@mirceastefanescu

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Software & DevOps engineer with 5+ years building cloud‑native microservices and automating AWS.

Romania

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What I'm looking for

Looking for senior Java/DevOps roles building scalable cloud‑native platforms using Java, Spring Boot, Kubernetes, AWS and modern DevOps practices. Prefer remote or B2B contract roles with opportunities to design and lead microservice architectures.

Over 5 years of experience in full‑stack and platform engineering, with a focus on Java/Spring Boot microservices, AWS, and Kubernetes. Led design and deployment of distributed applications using Docker, Kafka, RabbitMQ, and Terraform. Designed CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions, Jenkins) that reduced deployment time by 60%. Skilled in provisioning AWS infrastructure (EKS, RDS, MSK) and implementing monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, and CloudWatch. Adept at collaborating with cross‑functional teams and mentoring engineers to adopt DevOps best practices.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

AI Platform Engineer

Hitachi Rail

Sep 2025 - Nov 2025 (2 months)

Operated Kubernetes-based AI/ML platform, implementing resilience and safe deployment patterns and standardising platform operations to improve reliability and reduce time-to-diagnosis.

Kubernetes RKE2 K3s Rancher Cloud Foundry RabbitMQ Postgres Redis Elasticsearch

Java Engineer

Cognizant Mobility Romania

Apr 2023 - Aug 2025 (2 years 4 months)

Designed and deployed Java Spring Boot microservices on AWS EKS with CI/CD and Terraform, provisioned MSK and RDS, and established monitoring to improve scalability and operational visibility.

Amazon RDS Java Spring Boot Docker Amazon EKS Terraform Jenkins GitHub Grafana

Full-Stack Engineer

EOS KSI

Jul 2021 - Apr 2023 (1 year 9 months)

Built end-to-end Java/Spring and Angular applications and implemented Kafka-based event-driven features and Terraform IaC to standardise provisioning and support near real-time processes.

Java Spring Framework Angular Apache Kafka MSK Terraform REST APIs Docker CI CD SQL

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics, and Economic Informatics, University of Bucharest

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science

Completed a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science with coursework and projects in Java (modern JVM, OOP, concurrency, Spring Boot), Python, Angular/TypeScript, and database design.