Iurie Plesu

DevOps & Platform Engineer

Iurie Plesu

Complex systems. Clear operations.

I design and operate Kubernetes platforms, AWS infrastructure and delivery systems that remain understandable, observable and reliable as they evolve.

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CKA + CKAD certifiedVerified Kubernetes credentials

Platform engineeringKubernetes, AWS, Terraform and Kafka

Live on AWSTerraform, CloudFront and private S3

About my work

Operational clarity is part of the architecture.

I design and automate cloud platforms that remain understandable, observable and maintainable after the first deployment.

01 · Design
Readable foundations and explicit boundaries.
02 · Deliver
Repeatable change through automation and GitOps.
03 · Operate
Visible state, controlled recovery and verified outcomes.

Selected engineering work

All projects
01

Kafka Streaming Platform

Three-node Kafka KRaft platform with replication factor three, minimum ISR two and six dependency-ordered ArgoCD sync waves.

KafkaKubernetesArgoCDAWS
 02

EKS Platform Tools

Production EKS operations with Karpenter, observability, ingress, DNS and measured Spot-capacity cost controls.

EKSKarpenterPrometheusGitLab Runner
 03

EKS Terraform Infrastructure

Terraform-managed EKS across three AZs with six subnets, private IPv6 workers, seven AWS service endpoints and controlled scaling.

TerraformEKSIPv6AWS

Core technologies

Cloud foundation AWS

VPCIAMEC2S3

Provision Terraform

ModulesStateIaC

Platform runtime Kubernetes

EKSDockerHelmKarpenter

Continuous delivery Argo CD

GitHub ActionsGitOpsCI/CD

Data & signals Kafka

PrometheusGrafanaPostgreSQL

Certifications

Verified credentialCKA

Certified Kubernetes Administrator

CKA · The Linux Foundation

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Verified credentialCKAD

Certified Kubernetes Application Developer

CKAD · The Linux Foundation

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In preparationSAA

AWS Solutions Architect - Associate

Architecture study and hands-on AWS practice

Exam preparation in progress

Contact

Open to platform engineering conversations.

For DevOps, Kubernetes and AWS platform roles, contact me directly or continue with the resume and engineering case studies.

Chicago, IL DevOps Platform Engineering
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