Nicolae Vartolomei
DevOps Engineer at Deutsche Bank
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolNicolae Vartolomei is a DevOps engineer with 14 years of experience building and operating resilient, cloud-native platforms from telco networks to big data and financial services. He combines deep telecom and systems knowledge with hands-on expertise in Elasticsearch/OpenSearch ecosystems, Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform IaC and CI/CD security integrations to deliver scalable, cost-optimized infrastructures. At Deutsche Bank he focuses on high-availability deployments, rightsizing and embedding security scanning into pipelines, while earlier roles included piloting Elasticsearch-as-a-Service and managing Hadoop/Big Data platforms. An active open-source contributor, Nicolae improved cloud storage batching and testing in the high-performance Redpanda streaming project and worked on core backend logic for the ByConity cloud data warehouse. He pairs a Master’s in Information Security with practical skills in Ansible/Chef, VM/WebLogic pipelines and performance tuning, and outside work enjoys building and optimizing PCs—evidence of his hands-on, systems-first mindset. Based in Bucharest, he thrives on solving complex data-flow and infrastructure problems for forward-thinking teams.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Titu Maiorescu University
English, Russian
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Github Skills (25)
storage-engine10
c-language10
data-warehouse10
data-replication10
seastar10
sql10
cloud-storage10
cprogramming-language10
clickhouse10
testing9
databases9
database9
concurrency9
cloud-computing8
kubernetes7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
redpanda-data/redpanda
Nov 2020 - Apr 2025
Redpanda is a streaming data platform for developers. Kafka API compatible. 10x faster. No ZooKeeper. No JVM!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Cloud Storage Engineer
Back-end Developer & Cloud Storage EngineerContributions:751 reviews, 479 PRs, 186 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicolae's commits focused on enhancing cloud storage functionalities within the Redpanda platform. Their primary contribution was the addition of batching support for deleting objects in cloud storage, including splitting keys into batches and concurrent request execution, improving memory allocation. They also updated and expanded testing for this feature. The code changes involved modifying existing cloud storage client and remote file system interfaces, integrating batching logic.
realtimezookeeperdata-platformkafka-api10x
ByConity/ByConity
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
ByConity is an open source cloud data warehouse
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nicolae contributed to the core backend logic of the ByConity data warehouse. Their work included implementing features related to data part management, specifically addressing issues with data replication and part movement between shards. They experimented with integrating ArrowStream streaming for data processing and optimized code style for Arrow. Furthermore, they added access control for moving partitions between shards.
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