Flavius聽Lacatusu
Principal Software Quality Engineer at Red Hat
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolFlavius Lacatusu is a Principal Software Quality Engineer based in Madrid with six years of hands-on experience designing and automating CI/CD and e2e testing pipelines for OpenShift and AppStudio at Red Hat. He progressed from Software Quality Engineer to Principal, driving reliability improvements by integrating GitHub tokens, automating deployments with Argo CD, and adding cleanup cronjobs for release tooling. Comfortable in DevOps workflows, bash-based test frameworks, and multi-account GitHub configurations, he blends a mathematics background with certified ethical hacking training to approach quality and security pragmatically. His open-source contributions to high-profile projects like openshift/release and redhat-appstudio demonstrate a knack for solving deployment lifecycle pain points that are often invisible but critical to production stability.
6 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
EHE-Expert Ethical Hacking, Cibersecurity, EHE-Expert Ethical Hacking, Cibersecurity at The Security SentinelBachillerato, Bachillerato at IES El CarrascalBachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Universidad Nacional de Educaci贸n a Distancia - U.N.E.D.Web Aplications, Web Aplications at IES VIRGEN DE LA PAZ
Spanish, Romanian, German, English
Github Skills (23)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
argocd10
automation10
script10
openshift10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
infrastructure-as-code10
automations10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
redhat-appstudio/infra-deployments
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
This repository is an initial set of Argo-CD-based deployments of AppStudio components to a cluster, plus a script to bootstrap Argo CD onto that cluster (to drive these Argo-CD-based deployments, via OpenShift GitOps).
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:57 reviews, 31 commits, 178 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Flavius primarily focused on enhancing the CI/CD pipeline and automating the deployment process for the AppStudio components within the OpenShift environment. They implemented and refined an end-to-end (e2e) testing framework with bash scripts, integrating it with the existing CI infrastructure. Their contributions included adding new e2e test suites, integrating a GitHub token for HAS deployment, and adding logic to execute the latest e2e tests version. Additionally, they addressed issues like updating dashboard versions and creating custom workspaces to improve the deployment lifecycle.
argocdopenshiftkubernetesdeploymentscluster
konflux-ci/tekton-integration-catalog
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
A collection of Tekton resources and helpers to simplify integration testing in Konflux CI. Designed to make tests easier to run, manage, and automate.
Contributions:74 reviews, 137 PRs, 362 pushes in 11 months
kubernetesopenshiftshell-scripttektonyaml
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