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

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.

Certificates

AWS Academy Cloud Foundations

September 26, 2019

AWS Academy Cloud Architecting

October 3, 2019

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