Cristi Vlad is a Platform Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale, cloud-native infrastructure and CI/CD platforms. He has designed and migrated 70+ on-premises Rancher Kubernetes clusters (RKE1→RKE2), authored reusable Terraform modules for complex integrations (Istio, ECK, vSphere CSI, Vault) and automated lifecycle workflows via GitOps and Azure DevOps pipelines. Comfortable across the stack, he combines deep Kubernetes, Terraform and Vault expertise with production-grade practices for image management, monitoring and backup (Artifactory, Prometheus/Grafana, Velero). A cybersecurity and AI enthusiast with a master’s in Informatics Security, he champions secure, automated secrets handling and service-mesh resiliency while optimizing developer productivity. Notably, he’s executed large-scale cluster migrations and built in-house tooling that turned a risky replatform into a repeatable, auditable process.
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