Eugen Cojan is a Site Reliability Engineer based in Bucharest with nine years of experience building and operating cloud-native platforms across Azure and AWS. At Adobe he led Kubernetes platform design and GitOps migrations, ran multi-regional Kafka deployments, and drove a Control Plane refactor that improved reliability and maintainability. He pairs hands-on engineering—Terraform, Kubernetes Operators, CI/CD automation—with incident ownership and organization-wide standards such as secrets management. Earlier roles at Bitdefender and as a systems engineer sharpened his full-stack scripting and automation skills, from Python and Bash to Node.js and Angular. An active contributor to open-source infrastructure tooling, he added PodDisruptionBudget support and RBAC work to a popular Kafka Kubernetes operator, showing a practical focus on operability and safe rollouts.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Oh no! Yet another Apache Kafka operator for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Contributions:16 reviews, 20 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Eugen primarily contributed to enhancing the Kafka operator's functionality by adding support for PodDisruptionBudgets (PDBs). Their work included implementing PDB configuration, integrating it with the existing codebase, and adding the necessary RBAC permissions. The user also addressed code review suggestions, refactored and improved the codebase, and integrated new features for the Envoy Ingress controller.
Contributions:22 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 7 months
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