Cristian Berneanu is a Senior Cloud Engineer based in Bucharest with 12 years of experience building cloud-native and distributed systems. He brings deep systems and infrastructure expertise across Go, Kubernetes, Terraform and GCP, complemented by hands-on work in Kafka, Erlang/Elixir and lower-level languages like C/C++ and Rust. His career spans security-focused and research environments—from kernel development at Bitdefender to leading technical teams at the Max Planck Institute and product engineering at Aircloak—giving him a rare mix of production-hardened reliability and research-driven rigor. Comfortable across full-stack toolchains (including TypeScript/React and Python/F#), he consistently translates complex requirements into secure, scalable platforms. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often bridges kernel-level performance insights with cloud orchestration to optimize real-world deployments.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at University of Craiova, Romania
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Cristian Berneanu - Senior Cloud Engineer at Bitdefender