Paul Lupu
DevOps Director at Smilecloud
Timiș, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Lupu is a DevOps Director with 11 years of hands-on experience building and operating cloud-native infrastructure, currently leading IaaS strategy and infrastructure-as-code deployments at Smilecloud. He combines deep Linux expertise (CentOS, OpenSuse, Debian) with practical mastery of tooling like Puppet, Kubernetes, AWS, ELK, Prometheus/Nagios-style monitoring and MySQL clustering to deliver resilient, compliant platforms. Paul has a strong track record in agile and SAFe environments—running CI/CD pipelines, cost estimates, change management and PI planning while acting as a trusted client and engineering liaison. He is a proactive optimizer and benchmarker of emerging open source technologies, regularly turning hobbyist exploration into production improvements. Former roles as DevOps lead and senior sysadmin show he’s comfortable from low-level networking and virtualization (Xen/KVM, pfSense, HAProxy) up to orchestration and platform design. Based in Timișoara, Romania, he pairs technical rigor with team coaching and company-wide training to raise operational standards across organizations.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Licensed Programmer, Computer Programming, Licensed Programmer, Computer Programming at Grigore Moisil High SchoolSystem Engineer, Computer and IT Science, System Engineer, Computer and IT Science at University Politehnica Timisoara, System Engineering Faculty
English, French
Github Skills (29)
aws8
hortonworks8
controller8
terraform7
elastic6
ambari6
ingress6
terraform-provider6
image6
nodejs5
elasticsearch5
bootstrapping5
aws-lambda5
python5
deploying5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
paul-lupu/hadoop-tester
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:72 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
paul-lupu/codecamp
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 PR, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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