Viorel Ciucu
Freelance Consultant at dbatools.io
Brussels, Belgium
Summary
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SeniorViorel Ciucu is a cloud-focused database architect and freelance consultant based in Brussels with 11 years of hands-on experience modernizing, automating, and scaling database estates across on-prem and multi-cloud environments. He designs HA/DR architectures, leads migrations of multi-terabyte SQL Server systems with minimal downtime, and builds Terraform and PowerShell automation to streamline deployments for SQL Server, PostgreSQL and MongoDB. As director of his own firm he combines remote DBA support, performance tuning and capacity planning with DevOps practices—implementing CI/CD for database changes and containerized database automation in GitLab pipelines. A long-time major contributor to the widely used dbatools PowerShell project, he has improved core restore and AG listener functions and demonstrates deep SQL Server and PowerShell expertise. He’s comfortable operating at both strategic architecture and low-level T-SQL/PowerShell coding, and often surfaces operational improvements that reduce downtime and toil.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Romanian
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Github Skills (10)
powershell10
sql-server10
sql10
database9
database-administration9
backup9
databases9
microsoft-sql-server8
mssqlserver8
mongodb6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
dataplat/dbatools
Jul 2017 - Mar 2020
🚀 SQL Server automation and instance migrations have never been safer, faster or freer
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:76 commits, 19 PRs, 12 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Viorel contributed to the `dbatools` repository, focusing on the implementation and modification of stored procedures and functions related to SQL Server database maintenance. Their work involved creating a new function and adding and modifying parameters, which improved existing functionality for tasks such as installing and configuring the SQL Server maintenance solution by Ola Hallengren. Additionally, they made typo fixes and refined the code structure within the `Get-DbaAgListener` and `Restore-DbaDatabase` functions, showing a strong understanding of SQL Server and PowerShell best practices.
sqlserverbackupsaferserver-automationsql-server
cviorel/dotfiles
May 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:122 pushes, 7 branches in 6 years 10 months
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