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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Automate / Observe / Operate / Evolve

Continuous delivery Continuous learning

CKA · CKAD · AWS SAAVerified certifications

Kubernetes · AWS · TerraformPlatform engineering · Kafka

Live on AWS Terraform, CloudFront & private S3

Core technologies

About & results

Infrastructure as code Terraform

ModulesStateIaC

Cloud foundation AWS

IAMVPCEC2S3

Platform runtime Kubernetes

EKSDockerHelmKarpenter

Continuous integration GitHub Actions

BuildTestPublish

Continuous delivery Argo CD

Argo RolloutsGitOps

Data & streaming Kafka

StrimziKRaftPostgreSQL

Metrics & logs Observability

GrafanaPrometheusElasticsearchKibana

About me

I build and run the platforms teams deliver on.

I'm a Platform Engineer with 5+ years in production AWS environments. At Kensium, I operate the platform behind five commerce and ERP applications.

I own multi-environment EKS operations and the Git-managed delivery workflows used by CloudOps and SRE. My work covers infrastructure design, Kubernetes reliability, Kafka streaming and observability, with developer self-service in lower environments and explicit controls for production.

Earlier, at Mindsight, I standardized AWS environments with reusable Terraform modules and replaced manual release steps with container CI/CD. Provisioning dropped from approximately one working day to three hours.

2023 - PresentPlatform EngineerKensium

2020 - 2023DevOps EngineerMindsight

Full experience & credentials

01 / Delivery ownership

Application releases separated from infrastructure.

I replaced Terraform-driven releases with GitHub Actions and Argo CD. Developers gained self-service in lower environments; CloudOps and SRE retained production controls.

02 / Cost and reliability

Capacity policy matched to workload risk.

I replaced Cluster Autoscaler with Karpenter and used Spot for eligible non-production workloads. Critical services stayed on On-Demand capacity.

03 / Change management

Traffic migrated through staged validation.

I moved ingress-nginx traffic to Gateway API through parallel validation and incremental cutover, consolidating routing and TLS ownership while preserving availability.

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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Verified credentialSAA

AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

Amazon Web Services Training and Certification

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Contact

Let's talk about your next platform challenge.

For roles involving AWS architecture, Kubernetes operations and delivery ownership, I welcome a conversation about the systems and responsibilities involved.

DevOps Platform Engineering

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