Cosmin Cioba

Optaros is 100% focused on digital commerce and the technology ecosystem that supports it. From core eCommerce and mobile to omni-channel and multi-channel experiences, we deliver next generation tools and experiences that enable consumers at every digital touch point.

Responsibilities and work:
• Work closely with our geographically distributed Support and Delivery teams
• Maintain our AWS Cloud Infrastructure(monitoring, alerting, autoscaling, backup, logging)
• Develop fully automated infrastructure. We strive to follow the Code as a Infrastructure concept using Cloud Formation and Opscode Chef
• Maintain our Chef Cookbooks
• Maintain our Cloud Management Tools
• Incident forensics and root cause analysis.
• Perform code pushes and release deployments for the various environments
• Level 1/2 OnCall rotations
• Investigate performance issues

Web Developer and Operations Engineer for different projects

eRepublik is a global massively multiplayer online game where players can participate in a variety of daily activities. Citizens of the New World can be employees, own businesses, form political parties, vote in elections, become party presidents, members of Congress or country presidents, write newspaper articles and even go to war as citizens of virtual versions of real life countries.

Responsibilities and work:
• Bugfixes and improvements of production website
• Design and Deliver new features
• Incident response
• Forensics and root cause analysis
• Perform code pushes and release deployments

Achievements:
• Integrated erepublik.com with the Social Gaming Platform www.kongregate.com
• Investigated and implement ways to improve performance. Also proposed ways to refactor the code
to make it more robust
• Build a login API that can be used by other Social Gaming Platform

Innobyte offers eCommerce solutions for a couple of Romanian and European Companies. Here I was part of the Web Development team responsible for supporting and improving the production websites and environments.

Responsibilities and work:
• Bugfixes and improvements of production websites
• Incident response
• Forensics and root cause analysis
• Perform code pushes and release deployments

Achievements:
• Improving performance of www.bambinoworld.co.uk
• Investigated and implemented a demo for Performance Improvements using Proxy side Full Page Caching for Magento (technologies used Nginx+FPM and NGINX+SSI)
• Helped maintain the infrastructure and the development Virtual Machines