Senior DevOps for teams that can’t afford downtime.
Ionel David — independent DevOps engineer. Two decades of CI/CD, cloud platforms and automation for public and private sector teams worldwide.
Everything between a commit and a healthy production system.
Hands-on engineering, not slide decks. Each service can be delivered as a focused project or as part of a long-term embedded engagement with your team.
CI/CD pipeline engineering
Design, build and migrate pipelines that compile, test, scan and release automatically — with quality gates your auditors will like.
Cloud & container platforms
Containerise applications and run them on Azure, AWS or OpenShift — or modernise on-premises estates step by step.
Infrastructure automation
Replace manual runbooks with versioned, repeatable automation for provisioning, configuration and deployment.
Observability & monitoring
Metrics, logs and alerting that tell you something is wrong before your users do — across every environment.
Release & configuration management
Branching strategy, versioning, artifact control and database schema synchronisation, so every release is traceable.
Identity & enterprise integration
LDAP directories, ITSM workflows and enterprise platforms wired into your delivery process, not bolted on beside it.
A delivery process you can audit, repeat and hand over.
Assess
Map how code really reaches production today — tools, handoffs, environments, bottlenecks and risks.
Design
Define target pipelines, branching and release strategy, environment topology and quality gates.
Automate
Build it as code — pipelines, playbooks, containers and monitoring — iteratively, without stopping delivery.
Operate & hand over
Run, measure and improve — then leave documentation and runbooks your team can own.
Fluent in modern stacks — and the legacy ones behind them.
Linux and Windows. Dockerised, virtual and bare-metal. Cloud-native and on-premises. Real organisations run all of it at once.
From national security systems to global enterprise platforms.
Twenty years across environments where downtime, security and auditability genuinely matter — including architecture and delivery of EU-funded programmes such as the Romanian Police SIS II integration.
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Romanian Police · Ministry of Interior
DBA, developer and Head of IT&C Unit. Architecture for ~€20M of intelligence-data programmes and SIS II (€26M) implementation.
Pick the shape that fits your team.
Audit & roadmap
A short, fixed-scope review of your delivery process and infrastructure, ending in a prioritised, costed improvement plan.
Project delivery
A defined outcome: a pipeline migration, a container platform, a monitoring stack or an automated release process.
Embedded contractor
A senior DevOps engineer inside your team, long-term — remote or hybrid, working your rituals and your tools.
Tell me where delivery hurts.
Slow releases, fragile deploys, no visibility in production? A 30-minute call is usually enough to know whether I can help.
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