Valerian Gabriel Both

Betfair

• Part of a central DevOps team, supporting development teams in a global, cross-functional environment to ensure smooth and reliable deployments.
• Perform AWS operational tasks like auditing and cleaning up resources, managing S3 buckets, and running DNS analysis across Cloudflare.
• Investigate and troubleshoot deployment issues, working from incident and service-request queues.
• Support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitHub Actions; script and automate tasks to improve team workflows and dependency management.

Betfair

• Designed, implemented and tested gaming and sports promotions; resolved operational issues and coordinated with stakeholders. Automated repetitive tasks with Python scripts.

Avram Iancu International Airport, Cluj-Napoca

• Monitored and maintained computers, peripherals and network equipment to ensure reliability and security.
• Installed and configured operating systems and applications; managed user and network access within security policy.
• Set up and troubleshot network devices and connectivity, applying security best practices.
• Implemented data backup and recovery procedures to protect user data and support quick recovery.

Avram Iancu International Airport, Cluj-Napoca

• Monitored access points and video surveillance systems to ensure site security, identifying breaches and potential threats and coordinating with law enforcement.

Gameloft — Cluj-Napoca, Romania

• Created and executed test cases from design documents, reporting bugs and issues while working closely with developers and project managers to deliver on time.

Self-Hosted Home Lab

Proxmox • Terraform • Docker/LXC • Cloudflare

• Run a Proxmox server hosting 13+ containerized services. Built an automated media pipeline (Radarr/Sonarr + Prowlarr + qBittorrent + Bazarr) where a single request triggers automatic download of media and subtitles, with Overseerr for requests and Maintainerr for automated library cleanup.
• Exposed services securely from behind CGNAT using Cloudflare Tunnel (cloudflared), with Nginx Proxy Manager as reverse proxy, Cloudflare Access for authentication, and AdGuard DNS rewrites routing each service to its internal host over HTTPS.
• Built end-to-end monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana and Uptime Kuma, with automated alerting on Telegram.
• Provisioned the lab's containers as Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, so the whole stack can be rebuilt on a fresh Proxmox node with a single command, used for backup/disaster recovery and to learn IaC hands-on.

Cinemate

TypeScript • Cloudflare Workers • CI/CD

• Built a Tinder-style movie/series matching web app on Cloudflare Workers, using D1, KV and R2 for storage and hosting.
• Set up an automated GitHub Actions pipeline that builds and deploys to Cloudflare on every merge to main, with credentials managed through GitHub Secrets.

IT School

• Linux, Docker & Kubernetes, CI/CD (Jenkins), Ansible & Terraform, AWS, Prometheus/Grafana.

Bachelor's Degree, Security Studies

Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca