Liviu Costea
DevSecOps at Medusa
Iași, Iași, Romania
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Top SchoolLiviu Costea is a seasoned DevSecOps and SRE leader with 11+ years building cloud-native platforms and pipeline-as-product solutions across AWS and Azure. He blends hands-on engineering in Golang, Node.js and automation (Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD) with a pragmatic architecture mindset for microservices and distributed systems. At companies like Mambu and Juni he drove GitOps, CI/CD and migration efforts (moving shell tooling to Go) to improve reliability and deployment velocity. An active open-source contributor and ex-CNCF ambassador, he’s contributed UI and security-focused improvements to the widely used Argo CD project. He’s also an entrepreneur and community builder—co-founding a major developer conference in Iași—and enjoys optimizing database workloads by combining SQL and NoSQL approaches. Based in Iași, Romania, he’s particularly effective at turning operational pain points into maintainable, automated platforms.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din IașiA. T. Laurian High school
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Github Skills (26)
kubernetes10
redis10
argocd10
gitops10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
react10
cicd9
amazon-web-services9
jsonnet9
uid8
front-end-development8
helm8
ui-design8
devops7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj/argo-cd
Feb 2019 - Dec 2020
Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 13 PRs, 88 comments in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Liviu's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and supporting features within the Argo CD platform. They implemented functionality to handle cluster names, supported top-level arguments for jsonnet in the application creation CLI, and refactored code to use typed access to claims, indicating a focus on improving code maintainability and security. These changes demonstrate a solid understanding of both frontend UI components and the backend logic of the application.
cdcontinuous-deploymentdokkupipelinehelm
lcostea/k8s-101-workshop
Apr 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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