Adrian Vladu
Senior Cloud Engineer at Cloudbase Solutions
Timiș, Romania
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Top SchoolAdrian Vladu is a Senior Cloud Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and automating cloud-native infrastructure across OpenStack, AWS, Azure, GCE and private clouds. He is a core maintainer of Cloudbase-Init, Windows Image Builder, and a contributor to Flatcar Container Linux, combining deep Windows provisioning expertise with Linux kernel and VM-focused work (notably KubeVirt and Hyper-V/Azure testing). Known for end-to-end validation pipelines and full automation of Microsoft workloads, he pairs low-level systems knowledge with scalable CI/CD practices. A habitual tinkerer and hobbyist kernel contributor who documents his experiments on lazyprogrammer.io, he brings a pragmatic, resource-conscious approach and a knack for solving tricky cross-platform imaging and driver automation problems.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
"Politehnica" University of TimisoaraMaster's Degree (unfinished), Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree (unfinished), Computer Software Engineering at Blekinge Institute of TechnologyMaster's Degree (unfinished), Computer Software Engineering, Master's Degree (unfinished), Computer Software Engineering at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern"Fratii Buzesti" National College, Craiova, RomaniaComputer Science, Computer Science at udacity.comComputer Science, Computer Science at coursera.com
English, French, German, Spanish, Romanian
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Github Skills (10)
windows10
powershell10
automation10
automations10
image-generation10
devops10
cloud-computing9
virtualization9
openstack8
qemu8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
cloudbase/windows-imaging-tools
Nov 2013 - Dec 2022
Tools to automate the creation of a Windows image for OpenStack, supporting KVM, Hyper-V, ESXi and more.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 316 commits, 296 PRs in 9 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Adrian primarily focused on automating the creation of Windows images for OpenStack, particularly related to the installation of VirtIO drivers and the management of system configurations. They implemented solutions to install VirtIO drivers based on Windows version, used certificates to automate driver installations, and addressed issues with PSWindowsUpdate. The user also made improvements to the image build process, including customizing cloudbase-init configuration and integrating tools for image optimization and cleanup.
esxihyper-vkvmopenstackwindows
ader1990/lis-pipeline
Sep 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:3 PRs, 1260 pushes, 162 branches in 1 year 10 months
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