December 2, 2023

Florin

Ungur

Motivated, competent, and results-oriented individual seeking a position as a Site Reliability Engineer for critical infrastructure: water, food, energy, transportation, communication, commerce, government, internet. Fan of optimization and self-regulating systems.

I, Florin Ungur, pledge to serve humanity by making sure that software does what it should. I pledge to keep information available to anyone who needs it and unavailable for any unauthorized party who wants it. I pledge to make our systems more performant, more secure, and more beautiful. To achieve these pledges, I promise to become a better man by contributing to society and to human well-being while avoiding doing harm in an honest and trustworthy way.

Links

Code: github.com/florinungur | Website: florinungur.com | Email: florin at florinungur.com

Experience

Blockchain.com

London, UK | Mar 2022 – Present • <2 years | Site Reliability Engineer

› Created the SRE helpdesk, saving a total of ~200 dev hours per month.
› Automated toil in Bash and Python and created do-nothing scripts for slogs.
› Improved our Go-based tool for deploying Nomad jobs to GCP VMs and to our bare-metal servers.
› Worked with a teammate to improve our Python-based permission system.
› Automated the management of Slack channels, Grafana alerts, and Kafka topics through Python and Terraform.
› Took responsibility for SRE and dev onboardings.

GreenFlux

Amsterdam, NL | Jun 2021 – Mar 2022 • 10 months | DevOps Engineer

› Refactored and revamped the Azure-based monitoring tools to improve developer experience and reduce costs.
› Created the FTP solution that tens of thousands of charge points use to upgrade their firmware.
› Led a project to improve the security of the infrastructure through implementing Azure DevOps security pipelines.
› Mitigated the ChaosDB, OMIGOD, and CredManifest vulnerabilities.
› Removed incidental complexity from GreenFlux's Bicep-based IaC setup.
› Increased the reliability and decreased the cost of the platform through Azure autoscaling conditions.
› Automated internal wiki pages.

Thales Nederland

Hengelo, NL | Sep 2020 – Jun 2021 • 9 months | Infrastructure (Security) Engineer

› Helped transition the TACTICOS Combat Management System to a Kubernetes-based infrastructure through the design of a configuration management system (as an alternative to ConfigMaps).
› Transitioned legacy software from a RHEL 7 to a RHEL 8 infrastructure.
› Created Ansible roles to automate and decouple configuration that was previously done by critical software.

Hengelo, NL | Feb 2020 – July 2020 • 6 months | Intern

› Created Java Cucumber tests for Kubernetes that proved the orchestrator's robustness in Thales' environment: github.com/florinungur/RCNIT + github.com/florinungur/bashspray.

Fundaments

Enschede, NL | Sep 2018 – Feb 2019 • 6 months | Intern

› Built a website that promotes security information through the use of the Have I Been Pwned API: github.com/florinungur/flaregun.
› Made a white paper and a research paper to substantiate the website.
› Created my own research method based on Design Research.

Education

Saxion University of Applied Sciences

Nov 2016 – Jul 2020 | Bachelor's Degree in IT Service Management

› Graduated cum laude with an average of 8.4/10; top of the 2020 class. Recommended for my work by Tonny Lievers.
› Note-worthy modules: Architecting the Cloud; Cloud Engineering; Servers & Services; Networking.

University of Twente

Feb 2019 – July 2019 | Minor in Psychology

› Graduated with an average of 8/10; top 5% of my class.
› Focused on linguistics, cognition, IQ, and the psyche for the bringing together of IT security and psychology, as inspired by the second edition of Ross Anderson's book, Security Engineering.