Dan Vaida
Senior DevOps Engineer at 35up
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Vaida is a Senior DevOps Engineer based in Berlin with 11+ years of hands-on experience designing, deploying and operating resilient, multi-cloud distributed systems. He specializes in platform engineering—building self-service CI/CD, GitOps workflows, multi-tenant Kubernetes and Kafka platforms—and has repeatedly driven migrations, cost optimization and observability at scale. Dan blends systems architecture with pragmatic developer enablement, running centralized logging/monitoring stacks, FinOps practices and multi-account AWS network topologies to increase team autonomy and reliability. He has a track record of turning legacy estates into cloud-native platforms, mentoring teams through workshops and on-call rotations, and instituting disaster recovery and compliance-ready solutions. A practical solutions architect who also codes infrastructure as testable IaC, he quietly excels at simplifying complex operational landscapes so developers can move faster with confidence.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Informatics Programming C/C++, Graduate Informatics Programming C/C++ at Mihai ViteazulEngineer's degree Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Engineer's degree Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Universitatea din Oradea
English, German, Romanian
Github Skills (200)
controller10
python10
command-line-interface10
coredns10
terraform10
gcp10
infrastructure10
dns10
profiling10
ansible-galaxy10
terraform-module10
ansible-role10
ssh10
dns-record10
terraform-cloud10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
35up/terraform-aws-transit-gateway-satellite
Jan 2021 - May 2024
Terraform module for handling the Transit Gateway satellite resources
Contributions:2 reviews, 10 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 3 months
satellitegatewayhandlingterraformterraform-provider
Flaconi/terraform-aws-iam-ses-user
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
Terraform module that handles IAM users which are able to send e-mails via AWS SES
Contributions:1 review, 13 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 6 months
mailsterraform-modulesiam-usersamazon-web-servicesaws-ses
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