Summary
Stefan Caraiman is a DevOps and Platform Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and operating cloud-native platforms across Azure, AWS, IBM and hybrid environments. He builds secure, cost-conscious (FinOps) and highly automated infrastructures—authoring Kubernetes operators, reusable Terraform modules, Helm charts, and CI/CD pipelines that scale from greenfield to mature systems. Stefan has hands-on experience with production tooling like ArgoCD, Istio, Cilium, Prometheus/Grafana and SIEM integrations, and has improved security posture via automated vulnerability scanning and patched Docker base images. He’s equally comfortable implementing low-level automation (Python, Go, Bash) and mentoring teams on standardization and 12-Factor practices. Based in Oregon but working internationally from Romania, he’s known for pragmatic, platform-first solutions and occasionally reverse-engineers third-party stacks to unblock clients.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
English, Romanian