Pipiasi Bogdan
Junior DevOps Engineer
Profile
Self-taught infrastructure and software engineer with 15+ years building and operating internet-facing systems, from large-scale game-hosting platforms to production Kubernetes environments. Currently freelancing while formalizing that experience through structured DevOps training, and using AI tooling day-to-day to move faster across infrastructure and coding work. Looking to move into a full-time DevOps role.
Skills
Containers & Orchestration
IaC & GitOps
Cloud & Networking
Observability
Security
AI & Automation
Backend
Frontend
Databases
Web Hosting & Control Panels
Game Infrastructure
CMS / Forums
Experience
Independent Developer / Web Developer
Built and optimized backend systems end-to-end, from third-party control-panel APIs to full application infrastructure, with a constant focus on performance and reliability.
Built and hardened full-stack web applications (PHP OOP/MVC, Node.js, React), including SQL-injection audits and OWASP-aligned security remediation.
Operated game-server hosting infrastructure and a real-time player-tracking service supporting 10M+ players, built on custom Steam/Valve socket APIs.
(2024) Focused a year of R&D on deep-learning-driven, large-scale live data storage: built a real-time game-tracker platform storing player statistics by minute, hour, day, week, and year, and managed the full infrastructure for scalability, reliability, and high-volume traffic.
(2017 – 2018) Helped clients and community members set up and troubleshoot websites, online shops, and game servers; ran a gaming community forum, managing discussions and community resources.
GameQuery.dev (GQ)
Game-server query platform supporting hundreds of games, originally built to support CSB. Integrates with WordPress, Invision Community, and OBS. PHP, REST APIs.
Counter-Strike-Boost.com (CSB)
Full-stack platform for the CS 1.6 community with real-time server and player analytics, tracking 10M+ players. Runs on a polyglot microservices setup and a PHP MVC framework built from scratch.
Supervisor
Supervised daily on-site operations and staff at a retail betting location, full-time.
Web Developer (Self-Employed)
Hosted and administered web, VPS, and game-server infrastructure plus domain registration for 100+ clients, handling everything end-to-end from provisioning to ongoing support.
Administered Apache servers and built custom firewall rulesets (ipfw/pf); configured Cloudflare for DDoS protection and rate limiting to harden client infrastructure against abuse.
Deployed and maintained WooCommerce storefronts and CMS/forum platforms (WordPress, phpBB, MyBB, vBulletin) for clients.
Education
AI-Assisted Development
Applied AI-assisted engineering tools to modernize existing codebases, including GQ and CSB, migrating 20–30 containers to Docker and later to K3s with zero-downtime rolling deployments.
xConsole
Multi-VPS SSH terminal canvas with a built-in AI assistant, built as a daily-driver replacement for MobaXterm. Rust, Tauri 2, React, xterm.js, MCP, Ollama.
DevOps Engineer in Training
Formalizing hands-on infrastructure experience through structured coursework in containers, CI/CD, observability, and platform-engineering team processes.
ProdX / ProdXCD / ProdXTF
GitOps platform on GKE. FastAPI + React app, Terraform/HCP-provisioned GCP infrastructure, Argo CD + Helm deployments, HPA autoscaling, External Secrets + Vault for secrets management, Prometheus/Grafana monitoring, and Trivy vulnerability scanning in CI.
devops-battleship-aws
Real-time multiplayer Battleship built as an AWS DevOps showcase. Terraform-provisioned EC2, a 6-container Docker Compose stack, Redis, Vault, and zero inbound ports via Cloudflare Tunnel.
ServersMonitoring
Self-hosted monitoring tool for server stats, traffic, and service-health checks, with alerting and a browser-based installer. PHP, Docker, Node.js.
GitHub Organization as Code
Repositories, teams, and permissions for devopsitschool managed via Terraform.
Price Comparator & History Tracker
Fully automated platform that scrapes prices behind authentication and tracks price history over time. Live in production.
Automated News Platform
Fully automated news site built on n8n workflows with custom LLM API integrations. Live in production.
Engineer's Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Internship (2016 – 2017): Built custom control boards and embedded systems, including Arduino-based microcontroller programming, sensor development, and automation/robotics circuits.
Diploma of Education, Electrician
Internship (2014 – 2015): Maintained servers and IT systems, designed infrastructure, configured automated access control and security systems, and diagnosed/repaired electrical and wiring infrastructure.
Certifications
Claude Code in Action
Anthropic's official training on agentic coding with Claude Code — workflows, automation and best practices.
Languages
Romanian — Native
Italian — Fluent
English — Conversational