Costea Catalin

Costea Catalin has a strong background in DevOps and software engineering. Costea currently works at OPSWAT as a DevOps Engineer, where they automate infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines on AWS and Kubernetes/EKS. Costea also adopts GitOps practices and implements IaC using Terraform, Helm, Bash, Python, and other tools.

Prior to this, Costea worked at Waterford Institute as a DevOps professional from 2015 to 2021. At this role, they contributed to various DevOps tasks.

Previously, they worked at UnifiedPost as a DevOps engineer from 2014 to 2015.

Before that, they joined ACI Worldwide, where they held multiple roles. Costea served as a Sr. Software Engineer from 2007 to 2009, contributing to infrastructure, support, engineering on BASE24-eps configuration, and development of automated testing frameworks. From 2009 to 2010, they worked as an SDLC Consultant. Later, they became the Manager of Software Engineering from 2010 to 2012, where they coordinated and supported security and core development teams and collaborated with external entities for recruitment.

Costea started their career as a Software Engineer at Siemens VDO / Continental from 2002 to 2007 and at Softvision from 2001 to 2002.

Costea Catalin earned a Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) with a specialization in Component Based Programming from Universitatea “Babeș-Bolyai” din Cluj-Napoca. Prior to their master's degree, Catalin attended Vasile Lucaciu College, where they studied Computer Science. The specific duration and degree earned at Vasile Lucaciu College are not provided.