Vlad Butacu
About Vlad Butacu
Vlad Butacu is a Senior DevOps Engineer currently working at Liberty Global in the Amsterdam Area, Netherlands. He has extensive experience in automation, monitoring, and software development, having previously worked at Viasat Group and System Evolution S.r.l.
Work at Liberty Global
Vlad Butacu has been employed at Liberty Global as a Senior DevOps Engineer since 2017. He works in the Amsterdam Area, Netherlands, and is part of the Microservices Delivery Team. His responsibilities include maintaining and improving the Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) process for a Video on Demand (VOD) platform that operates on Kubernetes. He leads release preparation and night deployments while mentoring junior team members. Additionally, he has defined hardware and application monitoring metrics and automated the creation of dashboards for Kibana and Grafana.
Previous Experience at Viasat Group
Before joining Liberty Global, Vlad Butacu worked at Viasat Group as a System Administrator from 2015 to 2017 in the Turin Area, Italy. During his tenure, he automated the deployment procedure of Icinga Docker containers using Ansible. His role involved managing system operations and contributing to the efficiency of deployment processes.
Education and Expertise
Vlad Butacu studied at Carlo Grassi, where he pursued a program in Perito Informatico and achieved a Diploma di Maturità from 2005 to 2010. He furthered his education at Politecnico di Torino, obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering from 2010 to 2016. His educational background provides a solid foundation for his expertise in DevOps practices, software development, and system administration.
Technical Skills and Projects
Vlad Butacu has developed software release validation and testing tools using Python within Docker containers. He has designed a Kubernetes platform to run CI/CD pipelines from a containerized Jenkins environment, utilizing Ansible playbooks, Python, and Bash scripts. Additionally, he automated the procedure for log file ingestion in a monitoring platform using the ELK stack. His technical skills are complemented by his experience in debugging and root-cause analysis of backend components and Customer Premises Equipment (CPEs).
Role at System Evolution S.r.l.
Vlad Butacu served as an IT Manager Assistant at System Evolution S.r.l. from 2014 to 2015 in the Turin Area, Italy. In this position, he contributed to various IT management tasks and automated processes that improved operational efficiency.