Alexandru Somesan

Kubernetes in Terraform

Planning and prototyping the infrastructure migration to AWS. Infrastructure as code using Terraform. Containerizing services and web applications for deployment on Kubernetes + AWS. Implemented tooling to integrate with the existing CI/CD systems. Automated deployment of existing software components to Kubernetes. Monitoring of the Kubernetes cluster and applications using the Prometheus monitoring system.

Developed a highly-available configuration management and deployment platform which manages and configures thousands of EC2 instances, allowing users to configure them, attach storage, load-balancers, data-bases and monitoring or deploy applications. It integrates with many AWS services. Responsible for developing the API and back-end services of OpsWorks. Achievements include integrating EC2 features such as mapping of cloud-based block-storage volumes into EC2 instances.

Secure Ingestion Platform. Developed front-end systems to securely ingest and handle the customers' critical personal and payment data. PCI-grade secure server environment based off SE-Linux, designed to ensure executable code being run is authenticated through a chain of trust rooted in hardware TPMs.

Engineer in the File-Systems team for ENEA's OSE real time operating system. Contributed to porting the NFS filesystem stack from BSD Unix to ENEA OSE.

Contributed to the development of IVR and data metering solutions for SICAP (http://www.sicap.com/about) and Nokia Siemens Networks. Provided on-side deployment, maintenance and training for the company's products at various telco. operators around the world, such as Swisscom or T-Mobile USA.

Industrial Automation and Computer Science