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Aurel Vlaicu, Bucharest, Romania

In my role as Full Cycle Engineering Manager, I embrace a dynamic and multifaceted approach that spans the complete project lifecycle, balancing direct technical engagement with strategic team and project leadership. My position bridges critical roles — Engineering Manager, Project Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, alongside expertise in Full Stack Development, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevSecOps — allowing me to lead by example and contribute significantly to each project… Show more In my role as Full Cycle Engineering Manager, I embrace a dynamic and multifaceted approach that spans the complete project lifecycle, balancing direct technical engagement with strategic team and project leadership. My position bridges critical roles — Engineering Manager, Project Manager, Product Owner, Business Analyst, alongside expertise in Full Stack Development, Site Reliability Engineering, and DevSecOps — allowing me to lead by example and contribute significantly to each project phase. This balanced approach ensures our projects not only meet but surpass our strategic and operational goals.Key responsibilities include:- Recruitment, coaching, and performance management to foster team growth and career development.- Enhancing the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), with a focus on team velocity, process optimisation, and engineering practices.- Advocating for efficient development practices such as Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), Clean Code/Architecture, and continuous integration and delivery.Accomplishments:- Developed a high-performing full cycle software development team from the ground up in 2.5 years, overseeing the entire process from ideation to deployment, inspired by the @Netflix Model (Full Cycle Development).- Championed a holistic approach to product lifecycle management, significantly reducing go-to-market time to under 2 years and achieving product go-live within 1.5 years, while fostering team-wide accountability and continuous product evolution. Show less

Aurel Vlaicu, Bucharest, Romania

Major responsibilities include:As a Site Reliability Architect, my primary focus was on enhancing the development pipeline from initial idea to customer delivery, significantly reducing the overall timeline. I was instrumental in fostering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps methodologies through comprehensive workshops and training sessions. My initiative included architecting, developing, and promoting SRE solutions in line with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)… Show more Major responsibilities include:As a Site Reliability Architect, my primary focus was on enhancing the development pipeline from initial idea to customer delivery, significantly reducing the overall timeline. I was instrumental in fostering Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps methodologies through comprehensive workshops and training sessions. My initiative included architecting, developing, and promoting SRE solutions in line with Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) standards, while continuously providing feedback from services and applications to developers. Staying informed on emerging SRE technologies and their relevance in the changing tech landscape was a key part of my job. Collaboration with a variety of stakeholders, from C-level executives to development teams, ensured the unified and effective adoption of SRE practices.Key Achievements:- Successfully led the RCS Onboarding project using DevOps/CNCF principles, pioneering the transition to a NoOps ecosystem featuring one-click deployments in under seven minutes. Show less

Aurel Vlaicu, Bucharest, Romania

A section of my key duties include:As a Site Reliability Engineer, I play pivotal role implementing a sustainable incident response system. This involved ensuring a 24x7 distributed on-call rotation for critical systems to maintain continuous operational readiness. I actively drove the evolution of systems by introducing changes to enhance reliability, efficiency, and velocity. My approach involved identifying issues throughout the entire technology stack, prioritizing permanent fixes, and… Show more A section of my key duties include:As a Site Reliability Engineer, I play pivotal role implementing a sustainable incident response system. This involved ensuring a 24x7 distributed on-call rotation for critical systems to maintain continuous operational readiness. I actively drove the evolution of systems by introducing changes to enhance reliability, efficiency, and velocity. My approach involved identifying issues throughout the entire technology stack, prioritizing permanent fixes, and emphasizing automation over point fixes for a more streamlined and robust operational environment.My Key Contribution:- Oversaw end-to-end implementation and administration of the SMLF (IoT) project, following DevOps and CNCF principles and practices, achieving approximately 99.998% time-based and aggregated availability, and leveraging observability strategies such as RED and USE methods and the four golden signals, while prioritizing reliability through the KISS principle within self-organized team. Show less

Aurel Vlaicu, Bucharest, Romania

My key responsibilities for this role are:As a DevOps Engineer, I contributed significantly to the team by driving candidate interviews and conducting qualification assessments. I played a crucial role in administering incident, change, and problem management processes, ensuring a seamless 24x7 distributed on-call rotation for critical systems. My focus was on providing a robust, stable, and scalable infrastructure to meet customer requirements across development, staging, and production… Show more My key responsibilities for this role are:As a DevOps Engineer, I contributed significantly to the team by driving candidate interviews and conducting qualification assessments. I played a crucial role in administering incident, change, and problem management processes, ensuring a seamless 24x7 distributed on-call rotation for critical systems. My focus was on providing a robust, stable, and scalable infrastructure to meet customer requirements across development, staging, and production environments. I actively advocated for changes to enhance reliability, efficiency, and velocity in the system evolution process. Additionally, I took the initiative to create an observability stack from the ground up, enabling the provision of metrics, logs, traces to feed Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Furthermore, I provided valuable expertise in system design consulting, FinOps, and reviews to support services before they went live.A section of my key contribution includes:- Implemented, managed, and administered the SMLF (IoT) project applying DevOps and CNCF principles and practices within self-organized team achieving approximately 99.995% time-based and aggregated availability. Show less

Pipera, Bucharest, Romania

Managed both medium and large-scale releases, as well as concurrent functional domain releases. My duties included contributing to various release artifacts, which entailed crafting detailed release schedules with milestones, defining release scope, and conducting risk and issues assessments. A key part of my job was aligning software application release and deployment plans with project managers and application owners, ensuring a seamless integration of Change the Business (CTB) and Run the… Show more Managed both medium and large-scale releases, as well as concurrent functional domain releases. My duties included contributing to various release artifacts, which entailed crafting detailed release schedules with milestones, defining release scope, and conducting risk and issues assessments. A key part of my job was aligning software application release and deployment plans with project managers and application owners, ensuring a seamless integration of Change the Business (CTB) and Run the Business (RTB) requirements. I maintained clear and effective communication with all stakeholders about the release scope, covering new software, modifications, retrofits, and patches. Additionally, I orchestrated the software application release management lifecycle, diligently ensuring the fulfillment of all prerequisites at each stage, ensuring smooth and efficient software release processes.Some of my key contributions are as follows:- Piloted the concurrent release of six country banking portals in timely manner, aligning with EU directives for PSD2 and MiFID II, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements. Show less

Aurel Vlaicu, Bucharest, Romania

In my tenure as a Service Engineer – L2, I collaborated closely with Senior Service Engineers to ensure the regular scheduling of reserves and updating scripts for optimization and automation of work. I took charge of implementations, patches, updates, and rollback procedures, ensuring the smooth functioning of services with KPI indicators surpassing existing service level agreements. Managing process-related issues was a significant aspect of my responsibilities, involving proactive… Show more In my tenure as a Service Engineer – L2, I collaborated closely with Senior Service Engineers to ensure the regular scheduling of reserves and updating scripts for optimization and automation of work. I took charge of implementations, patches, updates, and rollback procedures, ensuring the smooth functioning of services with KPI indicators surpassing existing service level agreements. Managing process-related issues was a significant aspect of my responsibilities, involving proactive identification, categorization, and prioritization of problems, with a commitment to resolution and evaluation of outcomes. I was instrumental in defining specifications for the construction of effective information systems aligned with user requirements. I played a key role in post-implementation platform administration and improvement, including participating in a 24/7 On-Call rotation.My major key achievements:- Built, managed, and supported IN8 project implementation for professional mail services, automating the monitoring and log management ecosystem for approximately 300 virtual machines, reducing deployment time from one hour to just five minutes.- Effectively planned, upgraded, maintained, and supported the Splunk Enterprise project, ensuring log management solution that consistently maintained high availability of approximately 99.99%. Show less

Pipera, Bucharest, Romania

Implemented NMS/OSS for mobile network elements, leading the definition, evaluation, and implementation of new software releases and features. My responsibilities included creating layout plans, establishing technical specifications, setting acceptance tests for NMS/OSS, and conducting site surveys. A significant aspect of my job was overseeing the installation and integration of management systems in the network, which entailed defining and supervising acceptance tests and establishing… Show more Implemented NMS/OSS for mobile network elements, leading the definition, evaluation, and implementation of new software releases and features. My responsibilities included creating layout plans, establishing technical specifications, setting acceptance tests for NMS/OSS, and conducting site surveys. A significant aspect of my job was overseeing the installation and integration of management systems in the network, which entailed defining and supervising acceptance tests and establishing interfaces with NMS vendors. I managed project implementations within the NMS operational plan, ensuring efficient communication and coordination. Additionally, I focused on optimizing the utilization of existing resources in the management systems and maintained the NMS equipment's functionality in line with Key Performance Indicator (KPI) levels, ensuring the network's efficiency and reliability.My key successes in this role are:- Led cost reduction initiatives across multiple OSS platforms, achieving 15% decrease through effective project management. Show less

Pipera, Bucharest, Romania

Implemented NMS/OSS for mobile network elements, leading the definition, evaluation, and implementation of new software releases and features. My responsibilities included creating layout plans, establishing technical specifications, setting acceptance tests for NMS/OSS, and conducting site surveys. A significant aspect of my job was overseeing the installation and integration of management systems in the network, which entailed defining and supervising acceptance tests and establishing… Show more Implemented NMS/OSS for mobile network elements, leading the definition, evaluation, and implementation of new software releases and features. My responsibilities included creating layout plans, establishing technical specifications, setting acceptance tests for NMS/OSS, and conducting site surveys. A significant aspect of my job was overseeing the installation and integration of management systems in the network, which entailed defining and supervising acceptance tests and establishing interfaces with NMS vendors. I managed project implementations within the NMS operational plan, ensuring efficient communication and coordination. Additionally, I focused on optimizing the utilization of existing resources in the management systems and maintained the NMS equipment's functionality in line with Key Performance Indicator (KPI) levels, ensuring the network's efficiency and reliability.My key successes in this role are:- Led cost reduction initiatives across multiple OSS platforms, achieving 15% decrease through effective project management. Show less