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Paul Florea

@paulflorea

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DevOps Engineer / Cloud Architect currently based in Toronto, Canada

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking for a company that is looking to establish or improve their cloud infrastructure, CI/CD processes, and/or monitoring & alerting. I'm here to provide my knowledge and experience to take their product and engineering operations to the next stage.

I'm a senior infrastructure professional with extensive experience in DevOps, CloudOps and InfoSec.

I'm well-versed in leveraging Helm and Terraform in GitOps automation, to scale, manage, and deploy secure, compliant, and resilient cloud systems.

My cloud architecture experience on GCP and AWS means I can propose and implement solutions to meet your team's unique needs.

Experience

Operations Engineer

ThinkData Works

Feb 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 10 months)

- Established and managed Kubernetes/Helm and GCP infrastructure, enabling the enterprise version of ThinkData Works' platform
- Optimized new platform environment provisioning using Python and Terraform, reducing multi-tenant deployment release times
- Improved efficiency by streamlining CI/CD in Jenkins
- Led DevOps road mapping and team management
- Minimized downtimes as primary responder

Kubernetes Helm Terraform Python Jenkins

Full Stack Developer

Autocase

May 2015 - Jan 2019 (3 years 8 months)

- Played a key role in growing Autocase from a concept web app to a full SaaS suite
- Designed and implemented containerised microservices
- Led integration with modern tools including OAuth2, subscriptions and payment, user tracking, error reporting, and service monitoring
- Administered the AWS and GKE accounts
- Modernised CI/CD
- Deployed and administered DBs

Python JavaScript Software Engineering Docker Gitlab CI Redis Flask NodeJS PostgreSQL

DevOps Team Lead & interim CISO

ThinkData Works

Dec 2020 - Present (3 years 5 months)

I was promoted to DevOps team lead, we mostly worked a variety of projects:
- Deployment automation using Terraform, Helm, and ArgoCD
- Streamlining the CI/CD pipeline using Github Actions
- Disaster Recovery and Incident Response strategies using Datadog & Pagerduty
- Vulnerability scanning automation using Lacework
- Process improvements & managing company InfoSec