IT Operations Engineer | M.Sc. Data Science | Exploring Machine Learning & Computer Vision through side projects
4+ years supporting enterprise infrastructure (Windows Server, Linux/Unix, databases, virtualization, ITSM) across multi-country operations in Germany, Austria, CEE and the Nordics. Outside of work, I build Python/ML side projects — from satellite cloud forecasting to computer vision experiments and game prototypes.
- Role: IT Operations Support Engineer (Sept 2021 – Present)
- Scope: Incident management, patch coordination, failover clustering, backup operations, cross-team escalation
- Platforms: ServiceNow, Grafana, TrueSight/BSA, VMware/vCenter, Citrix, Active Directory
- Databases: Microsoft SQL Server (AlwaysOn), SAP Basis, Oracle
Satellite cloud-movement prediction pipeline — started in TensorFlow/Optical Flow, rebuilt as a production-oriented PyTorch system. Applied automated data-pipeline engineering and ML workflows.
Forecasting for Romania using epidemiological modeling + Google Mobility data and ML (SVM, Random Forest).
Panoramic image stitching using SIFT keypoints, RANSAC homography estimation, and perspective warping with OpenCV.
An Android game inspired by Stack, built in Unity.
Interactive lessons teaching C, from basic syntax to pointers and structures.
Enterprise/Ops: 
Data/ML: 
- M.Sc. Big Data – Data Science, Analytics & Technologies, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara (2019–2021)
- B.Sc. Computer Science, Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara (2016–2019)
Timișoara, Romania 🇷🇴