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Andrei Vasiliu

About

Hi, I’m Andrei Vasiliu, currently the Platform & ISMS Director at Alpian Technologies in Rome, Italy, and a self-admitted homelab addict. I’m originally from Romania, and yes, I somehow made the jump from Civil Engineering (keeping actual physical buildings from falling down) to DevOps and Platform Engineering (keeping virtual pods from mysteriously crash-looping).

I really enjoy building enterprise-grade infrastructure, locking down systems so tightly that even I get locked out sometimes, and driving digital transformation. Over the years, I’ve architected multi-cloud solutions for banks and led platform engineering teams… mostly fueled by Friday afternoon deployments and an endless stream of YAML files.

What is this blog about?
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This space is dedicated to my homelab journey and technical rants. I treat my home infrastructure exactly like a production environment… which means my spouse occasionally has to sit through an RCA (Root Cause Analysis) when the smart home Wi-Fi drops. Here, I take the massively over-complicated enterprise patterns I use at work and forcibly cram them into a small server rack in my house, just for fun.

Professional Expertise & Stuff I Break Often
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  • Kubernetes & Cloud Native: Wrangling nodes (GKE, AKS, K3d, bare-metal), untangling Istio service meshes, and trying to figure out why DNS is failing again.
  • GitOps & CI/CD: Forcing ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, and Terraform to deploy things automatically so I can find new and exciting ways to break production.
  • Security & Governance: Zero Trust Networking, ISO 27001 ISMS paperwork, and setting off enterprise monitoring alerts at 3 AM.
  • Platform Engineering: Trying to make developers happy (a true test of human endurance), hoarding secrets, and keeping systems somewhat reliable.
  • Homelab Hardware: Turning a perfectly good closet into a high-decibel jet-engine testing facility just to run 5 containers that would have worked perfectly fine on a Raspberry Pi.

Let’s Connect
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If you want to see my actual professional facade or just check out my code, drop by the links below:

  • GitHub (Where my side projects go to collect stars)
  • LinkedIn (Where I wear a digital suit and tie)