Florin-catalin Tiucra-popa
Sr. Support Engineer - Vault at HashiCorp
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolFlorin-Catalin Tiucra-Popa is a senior infrastructure and security engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience designing, operating, and securing cloud and enterprise platforms across AWS, Azure, GCP and on-prem environments. Currently a Sr. Support Engineer for HashiCorp Vault in Amsterdam, he combines incident leadership and customer-facing advisory work with scripting and automation (Python, Bash) to reduce MTTR and harden operations. He has led monitoring and architecture efforts at scale—building Prometheus/Grafana alerting, Icinga2 monitoring for hundreds of thousands of services, and zero-downtime migration guides adopted by major customers. Comfortable in both strategic and tactical roles, he blends deep UNIX/AIX/Oracle DBA roots with modern Kubernetes, CI/CD and platform security practices. Colleagues rely on him for translating customer pain into product improvements and for mentoring teams to run secure-by-design, observable systems.
3 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul National "Unirea" - FocsaniPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Japanese, French, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
golang10
security10
access-management10
go10
encryption10
secrets10
vault10
hashicorp-vault10
zero-trust9
hashicorp8
identity8
gossip7
dhcp6
infrastructure6
dns6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
florintp-onboarding/generate-root-tokens-using-unseal-keys
Jul 2022 - Dec 2023
Install, configure and unseal a Vault Server a
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
ansiblevaultconfigureansible-roleunseal
florintp-onboarding/vault-as-docker
Jul 2022 - Apr 2024
Running Vault Enterprise as a Docker container
Contributions:3 PRs, 26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 8 months
enterprisevaultdockerdocker-container
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