Dan Ardelean
Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer at SoftServe
Oradea, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Ardelean is a Senior Cloud DevOps Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building secure, scalable cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines across AWS, Azure, OpenStack and Kubernetes. He combines deep systems expertise—from Solaris and ZFS to container runtimes and Kubernetes—with practical automation skills in Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and GitLab/GitHub Actions. A seasoned trainer and mentor, he has delivered OpenStack, Kubernetes and Linux courses to enterprises and governments worldwide, translating complex topics into actionable team knowledge. He also contributes to notable open-source projects such as containerd/nerdctl, where he improved Windows container support and hardened cross-platform test suites. Based in Oradea, Romania, Dan is equally comfortable debugging low-level OS issues and designing cloud-native delivery flows, and he often surfaces platform-level fixes that prevent future operational incidents.
10 years of coding experience
software engineer, software engineer at Universitatea de Vest din TimișoaraC. N. Mihai Eminescu Oradea
Github Skills (11)
containerd10
docker10
go10
hyper-v10
dockers10
test-automation10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
automations8
automation8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
containerd/nerdctl
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
contaiNERD CTL - Docker-compatible CLI for containerd, with support for Compose, Rootless, eStargz, OCIcrypt, IPFS, ...
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 1 commit, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the `nerdctl` project by adding and enhancing Windows-specific functionality. They implemented support for Windows HyperV container mode, including modifications to the build process and test suite. Furthermore, the user fixed existing issues with the rename and top commands on Windows, improving compatibility and functionality across different operating systems. They also added tests and refactored existing tests to support this new functionality.
docker-imagecomposemultiarchcliipfs
dardelean/kolla-ansible
Apr 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:65 pushes in 10 months
containerskolladeploymentansibledocker
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