Alexandru Anghel
Sr. Resident Solutions Architect at Databricks
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlexandru Anghel is a Senior Resident Solutions Architect with 11 years’ experience designing and delivering secure, large-scale Big Data and cloud solutions across Azure, AWS and GCP. A Databricks veteran, he has held both pre-sales and professional services roles focused on platform automation, security, and data governance (Unity Catalog), bridging customer needs to repeatable production patterns. His earlier career at Hortonworks and Cloudera gives him deep operational expertise in Hadoop ecosystem components (Spark, Hive, HBase, NiFi, Ambari) and practical hardening with Kerberos, Ranger and AD integration. He contributed to the well-known hortonworks/ansible-hortonworks project, adding Azure and OpenStack automation playbooks that reflect his strength in cloud-specific deployment automation. Based in Stony Stratford, he combines hands-on scripting and Ansible automation with architectural thinking to help organizations move complex data platforms to managed cloud services. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who translates messy operational constraints into secure, maintainable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
"Unirea" Focsani National College"Politehnica" University of Bucharest
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Github Skills (12)
sh10
azure10
automation10
script10
automations10
cloud-infrastructure10
ansible-galaxy10
shell10
microsoft-azure10
scripting10
ansible10
openstack9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
hortonworks/ansible-hortonworks
Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
Ansible playbooks for deploying Hortonworks Data Platform and DataFlow using Ambari Blueprints
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:306 commits, 45 PRs, 114 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily focused on setting up and configuring cloud infrastructure and automating deployment processes for Azure. Their contributions included adding support for Azure builds and preparing node playbooks for both Azure and OpenStack. They also created scripts to install and configure Ambari for Azure, demonstrating expertise in cloud-specific infrastructure management and deployment automation. Moreover, the user integrated with various cloud platforms by creating build scripts.
deployingvcenteransibleblueprintsautomation
alexandruanghel/azdo-databricks
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Contributions:5 releases, 18 commits, 74 pushes in 1 year 8 months
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