Summary
Răzvan Botea is an AWS DevOps Engineer with 14 years of software experience and 8+ years focused on designing, automating, and securing cloud infrastructure in AWS. Based in Bucharest, he partners with scale-ups and enterprises to embed security-by-design, compliance guardrails, and Well-Architected principles from day one, delivering resilient, cost-optimized environments. He has hands-on experience across serverless and container ecosystems (Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS Fargate), hybrid networking (Direct Connect, transit gateways), and zero-downtime migrations for Aurora, DynamoDB, and S3. Past roles include building backend services for high-traffic applications (LEGO integrations) and operating CI/CD runners and analytics pipelines, showing a mix of platform and application-level expertise. Răzvan is pragmatic about trade-offs—combining reservations and autoscaling to reduce cloud spend while keeping teams productive. His background as a self-employed cloud consultant and long history with Node.js and IaC (Serverless Framework, AWS CDK, CloudFormation) makes him adept at aligning technical solutions with business goals.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Politehnica University of Bucharest
Bacalaureat Diploma, Mathematics-Computer Science, Bacalaureat Diploma, Mathematics-Computer Science at Ștefan Odobleja High School
English, Romanian