Nicoleta Popoviciu
Senior Engineering Manager at HashiCorp
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicoleta Popoviciu is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Raleigh, NC, with over two decades of software experience and four years in leadership roles focused on cloud-native infrastructure. Currently at HashiCorp, she leads engineering efforts across Consul and Terraform, blending hands-on DevOps contributions with team and product leadership. Her open-source work includes operational improvements to the widely used hashicorp/consul-k8s project—adding health and readiness checks, improving uninstall flows, and enabling enterprise pre-install validations—which underscores her focus on reliable lifecycle management for service mesh on Kubernetes. Prior roles at IBM, BitSight, and as a development lead for an acquired startup show a track record of shipping resilient systems in both enterprise and startup environments. She holds an MS in Computer Science from Duke and brings a pragmatic, ops-minded approach to building scalable infrastructure teams.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS computer science, MS computer science at Duke UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Florida International University
Github Skills (10)
consul10
kubernetes10
go10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
docker9
service-mesh9
cicd8
ingress6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/consul-k8s
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
First-class support for Consul Service Mesh on Kubernetes
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 7 commits, 12 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nicoleta focused on enhancing the operational aspects of the Consul service mesh on Kubernetes. Their contributions include adding health checks to the connect inject webhook, improving the uninstall process, and implementing pre-install checks for enterprise license verification. These changes involved modifications to the codebase, including the implementation of readiness checks and improvements to the uninstall process. This work directly supports the deployment, management, and lifecycle of Consul within a Kubernetes environment.
meshhelmconsul-servicehelm-chartvault
hashicorp/consul-dataplane
Jun 2023 - Aug 2024
Contributions:13 reviews, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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