Mircea Ulinic
Network Automation Engineer
Eu, Normandy, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMircea Ulinic is a seasoned Network Automation Engineer with 16 years of experience designing and scaling resilient network platforms for companies like Cloudflare and DigitalOcean and now at oneZero Financial Systems. He blends deep systems-level networking expertise with pragmatic automation—contributing to high-profile open-source projects such as Salt and Netmiko, where his work improved BGP tooling, syslog processing, and multi-vendor SSH session safety. Mircea has led teams and run his own network automation consultancy, demonstrating both technical leadership and product-minded operational thinking. He serves on the Board of Advisors for the Network Automation Forum and maintains cross-project contributions (napalm, Salt) that bridge operator needs with developer ergonomics. Based in Normandy and active across Europe, he brings a rare mix of research experience from EPFL and production-grade engineering at scale. An avid contributor to observability and protocol tooling, he often focuses on robustness (certificate/exception handling) and real-world operability that aren’t always visible from architecture diagrams alone.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Telecommunications Electronics and Technology of Information, Bachelor of Science Telecommunications Electronics and Technology of Information at Technical University of Cluj NapocaEPFL
English, French, German, Romanian
Github Skills (29)
asynchronous10
monitoring10
python10
async10
tornado10
configuration-management10
networking10
axios10
socket10
internet10
bgp10
network-automation10
web-framework10
nodejs10
devops10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
saltstack/salt
Feb 2016 - May 2022
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Install Salt from the Salt package repositories here:
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 559 commits, 217 PRs in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Mircea primarily contributed to the `saltstack/salt` repository by enhancing the `napalm_syslog` engine with features for blacklist/whitelist functionality, importing utility modules, and adding transport configuration options, demonstrating a focus on network automation and configuration management. They also implemented documentation improvements, added example event structures, and addressed certificate handling and exception management, further showcasing their involvement in system robustness and usability. Their commits also enhanced the BGP and Netrunner modules, with a focus on performance and usability of the CLI.
pythonzeromqevent-streaminfrastructure-managementcloud-providers
nttgin/BGPalerter
Jan 2020 - Oct 2020
BGP and RPKI monitoring tool. Pre-configured for real-time detection of visibility loss, RPKI invalid announcements, hijacks, ROA misconfiguration, and more.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 17 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mircea primarily focused on enhancing the BGPalerter's reporting capabilities and integrating third-party services. They added a new reporting module for Alerta, incorporating features like environment configurations and templated resource fields. The user also introduced Sentry integration for runtime exception monitoring. Additionally, they updated the codebase to include the Cloudflare provider in the RPKI VRP list.
announcementsmisconfigurationreal-time-detectionbgpmonitoring-tool
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