Alexandru Chirițescu
Cloud Architect at Kivra
Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolAlexandru Chirițescu is a Cloud Architect and platform engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale Kubernetes and CI/CD platforms across fintech, automotive, and healthcare sectors. He has led platform teams at Klarna and Platform24, kept a 20+ cluster global Kubernetes platform running for Volvo Cars, and built internal developer platforms using Crossplane, ArgoCD and GCP. Equally comfortable as an individual contributor designing infrastructure at scale or as an engineering manager coaching teams, he focuses on aligning delivery with business outcomes and measurable KPIs. His hands-on approach spans the full lifecycle—build, test, deploy, monitor—reflecting a pragmatic obsession with reliable, repeatable delivery. Based in Stockholm, he brings rare cross-industry experience in federated CI/CD and platform ownership that reduces incident surface and accelerates developer productivity. Colleagues describe him as a builder who pairs deep technical craft with operational rigor and people-first leadership.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul National "Mihail Kogalniceanu" GalatiUniversity "Politehnica" BucharestȘcoala Generală Nr. 5
Romanian, English, French, Swedish
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Github Skills (106)
dropzone10
azure-devops9
margin9
api9
azure9
docker-desktop9
jenkins-api-plugin9
drone-ci9
stash9
jenkins-plugin9
configuration-as-code9
devops9
jenkins9
jcasc8
pipeline8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alexchiri/helm-me-up-man
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:8 releases, 30 commits, 19 pushes in 1 year 11 months
alexchiri/format-sql-alfred-workflow
Jul 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:8 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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