Octavian Ciuhandu
COO at Cloudbase Solutions
Timișoara, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolOctavian Ciuhandu is COO and co-founder of Cloudbase Solutions in Timișoara, leading efforts to bridge OpenStack and Windows ecosystems with a focus on interoperability, migration automation, and enterprise cloud workloads. With over 20 years of hands-on experience across Microsoft and Linux platforms, networking and security, he combines deep systems expertise with a research MEng in computer science from Dublin City University. Since 2012 he has specialized in OpenStack–Windows integration, developing key components like the Hyper‑V Nova driver, Windows Cloud‑Init support and the Coriolis migration product. A pragmatic entrepreneur who launched his first business in 2004, he designs for scalability and availability informed by academic research and real-world deployments. He’s particularly adept at simplifying complex migrations between heterogeneous clouds and virtualization stacks, reducing error-prone manual work. Outside work he pursues off‑road driving and skiing, reflecting a taste for technically demanding, hands-on challenges.
12 years of coding experience
Assistant programmer, Computer Science, Assistant programmer, Computer Science at Liceul de informatica Grigore MoisilMEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at Dublin City UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din Timișoara
English, German, Romanian
Github Skills (71)
kvm10
hyper-v10
hyper10
vms10
libvirt10
vdi10
virtio10
esxi10
powershell9
windows9
windows-installer9
maintenance9
openstack9
performance-tuning9
citrix8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cloudbase/manila-ci
Aug 2015 - Apr 2017
Contributions:42 PRs, 91 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
manila
cloudbase/neutron-ci
May 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:99 PRs, 139 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 9 months
hyper-vneutronhyper
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