Sebastian Ponovescu - Senior DevOps Engineer, Tacen

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Work Background

TacenSenior DevOps Engineer

Nov. 2023

FreelanceSenior DevOps Engineer

Jul. 2022 - May. 2023New York City Metropolitan Area💻 The client, a startup on a strictly controlled US market. • Created IaaC from scratch through configuring infrastructure as code. • 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 by automating tests and applications deployment. • Worked towards a𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃ing 𝗦𝗢𝗖𝟮 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 by creating a solid architecture from the get-go.

123FormBuilderSenior DevOps Engineer

Mar. 2020 - Jul. 2022Timişoara, Timiş, Romania💻 The customer, a web design company was loosing customer due to its application having outages. • 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝘅 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗴𝘂𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 by automated cloud deployments by using CI/CD tools. • 𝗔𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝟬 𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 by configuring Infrastructure as code and deploying it in an automated way. • 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗾𝘂𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝟯𝟬% by automating tests.

Toyota North AmericaSenior DevOps Engineer

Jun. 2018 - Mar. 2020💻 The client, a very large global automobile manufacturer was strugling with non-consistent tests, long time between new releases having errors in the production application. This caused a significant loss in revenue. • 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗯𝘆 𝟲𝟬% by migrating infrastructure configuration to Terragrunt •𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝗴𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝟰 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 by employing automatic testing. •𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝟯 by implementing Infrastructure deployment with Jenkins and CI/CD principles.

Alarm.comSenior DevOps Engineer

Oct. 2016 - Jun. 2018Timişoara, Timiş, Romania💻 The client, a leading security and home automation provider on the US market, grappled with two interconnected challenges: unreliable testing environments and a lengthy lead time between releases. These issues resulted in customer dissatisfaction leading to revenue loss. • 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗱𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝟭𝟬𝟬% by automating test environments deployment using Jenkins pipelines. • 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗯𝘂𝗴𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝟰𝘅 through automatic configuration of test environments. • 𝗥𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝗳𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝟱 as a direct consequence of automating the entire infrastructure deployment and test environments configuration.

Continental Automotive Romania SRL - R&D TimisoaraSoftware Engineer

Jan. 2011 - Sep. 2016TimisoaraEmbeded linux for automotive software design. Linux kernel drivers design. Power management analysis. Hardware and software integration and schematics review.

softproSystem and Network Administrator

Aug. 2000 - Aug. 2015This was a secondary and part time job, installing and maintaining servers and networks for an economic software company, building my own linux distribution for high performance servers. As application servers, we had postgresql, nodejs, memcache and other tools installed and monitored. A DNS server as well with master / slave configurations and public and private views of different zones.