Summary
Aurelian Popescu is a Cloud Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native and security-focused systems from research prototypes to production. He has driven migrations to Go-based microservices, built Kubernetes operators, and integrated observability tooling at companies from Bitdefender to Cyscale and now CrowdStrike. As a former development team lead, he combines hands-on coding with mentoring, quality control, and architectural decisions that improve performance and scalability. His work often sits at the intersection of security and cloud automation, e.g., enhancing vulnerability prioritization with EPS integration and orchestrating per-user Node-RED instances in Kubernetes. Based in Bucharest, he pairs a Master’s in Software Engineering with practical startup and enterprise experience. Colleagues would note his knack for turning research ideas into maintainable, production-ready services.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software engineering, Master's degree, Software engineering at Universitatea din București
Colegiul National ,,Ecaterina Teodoroiu"
English