Alin Balutoiu
Platform Engineer
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlin Balutoiu is a Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently contributing to Monzo’s platform from Stony Stratford. He has deep hands-on expertise in OpenStack, Kubernetes (Rancher/OpenShift), Terraform and GitOps tooling, having introduced modern CI/CD and GitOps practices at Nuuday to streamline developer workflows. His early work at Cloudbase and contributions to ovn-kubernetes show a practical blend of systems programming, Windows integration, and networking—he’s fixed Windows CNI issues and improved OVN performance and compatibility. Comfortable across Linux and Windows stacks, he pairs infrastructure automation with pragmatic DevOps engineering to deliver reliable, scalable platforms.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computers and Software engineering, Computer Science, Computers and Software engineering, Computer Science at Politehnica University of TimisoaraMaster of Science - MS, Software Development, Master of Science - MS, Software Development at IT-Universitetet i København
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
python10
wp-api10
windows10
cni10
winapi10
networking10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
ws-api10
devops10
named-pipes10
system-programming9
dockers9
network-programming9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes
Mar 2017 - Mar 2019
A robust Kubernetes networking platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:41 commits, 45 PRs, 221 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Alin contributed to bug fixes and added new features within the OVN Kubernetes networking platform. Their work included addressing typos, implementing configuration file support, and improving Windows compatibility by adding Windows CNI support and Windows gateway support. They also made performance improvements by modifying CNI to prevent repeated calling on Windows, and fixed errors related to retrieving MAC addresses and storing OVN addresses.
kubernetes-networkingcnicni-pluginnetworkingsdn
alinbalutoiu/argo-cd
May 2020 - Aug 2021
Declarative continuous deployment for Kubernetes.
Contributions:71 commits, 79 pushes, 66 branches in 1 year 3 months
continuous-deploymentkubernetes
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