# Vucomir Ianculov — DevOps Consultant & Infrastructure Engineer > Senior DevOps consultant and infrastructure engineer based in Timișoara, Romania. > 15+ years building and operating cloud infrastructure — from enterprise Unix at > scale to modern cloud-native platforms on AWS and Kubernetes. Runs DevHat, his own > consultancy, serving multiple clients across media tech, blockchain, IoT, and > enterprise as a solo infrastructure engineer. Available for contracting and > infrastructure engagements. ## About - **Name:** Vucomir Ianculov - **Title:** DevOps Consultant & Infrastructure Engineer - **Company:** DevHat (own consultancy, CEO since 2022) - **Location:** Timișoara, Romania - **Email:** vukomir@ianculov.ro - **GitHub org:** https://github.com/DevHatRo - **Site:** https://ianculov.io - **Specialties:** AWS, Kubernetes (EKS/AKS), Terraform, CI/CD, GitOps (ArgoCD), IoT device fleets, blockchain/Polkadot node infrastructure, Go & Python tooling. - **Background:** Started in enterprise Unix sysadmin (HP-UX, AIX) at scale, then transitioned to cloud-native DevOps. 15+ years in infrastructure (2010–present). ## Services & Engagement Vucomir contracts as a hands-on, solo infrastructure engineer — designing, building, and operating production cloud infrastructure end to end. Typical engagements: greenfield AWS/Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD and GitOps pipelines from scratch, IoT device provisioning, blockchain node infrastructure, Terraform module libraries, and custom Go/Python automation. - [Get in touch](https://ianculov.io/#contact): Contact form and direct email (vukomir@ianculov.ro). - [Download CV](https://ianculov.io/cv.pdf): Full CV (PDF). ## Current Clients - **Telly** (telly.com) — Smart TV / media tech startup. Sole infrastructure engineer for 4+ years; 200k+ connected devices, 50+ microservices on AWS. - **Aventus** (aventus.io) — Enterprise blockchain / Polkadot parachain. Sole infrastructure engineer for 4+ years. - **Truth Network** (truth-network.io) — Blockchain / web3, Aventus ecosystem. - **Enigmatic Smile / VOW Token** (enigmaticsmile.com) — Digital rewards / blockchain. - **Softpro** — Romanian software company; full managed hosting and infrastructure. ## Case Studies & Projects Full write-ups at https://ianculov.io/#work - **Telly — Cloud Infrastructure for Smart TV Platform:** Sole infra engineer, 4 years. Built the entire CI/CD pipeline from scratch (GitHub Actions); 50+ microservices across ECS, EC2, and Lambda; IoT device provisioning and certificate management via AWS IoT Core. Tech: AWS (ECS, EC2, Lambda, IoT Core, SQS, RDS, Firehose, CloudFront), GitHub Actions, Terraform, Python. - **Aventus — Blockchain Node Infrastructure (Polkadot Parachain):** Sole infra engineer, 4 years. Event-driven EBS snapshot pipelines, S3 state backups via rclone, Windows Authenticode code signing using AWS KMS (RSA 4096), Ansible-based EC2 provisioning, reusable Terraform modules, Jenkins pipelines, ArgoCD GitOps. Tech: AWS (EKS, EC2, KMS, S3, EventBridge, SQS), Terraform, ArgoCD, Jenkins, Ansible, Python, Go, GitHub Actions. - **Truth Network & VOW Token — Blockchain Infrastructure:** Deployed identical parachain infrastructure for Aventus ecosystem clients — full Kubernetes clusters, ArgoCD GitOps, CI/CD from scratch. Tech: AWS, EKS, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Polkadot/Substrate. - **Softpro — Managed Infrastructure Hosting:** End-to-end managed hosting — on-prem servers, CI/CD, monitoring, operational support. Tech: Linux, CI/CD, Prometheus/Grafana/Zabbix. ## Career History - **Azets** (2015–2022) — Head of Operations & DevOps Technical Lead. Led operations and DevOps teams, owned the operations budget, established DR/business-continuity plans, integrated CI/CD into the SDLC. - **Dell** (2013–2015) — Unix System Administrator, Bucharest. HP-UX & RedHat for Enterprise Holdings (Vanguard / National / Alamo); ServiceGuard Metro Cluster, ITIL. - **Atos** (2010–2013) — Unix System Administrator, Timișoara. Enterprise clients: Siemens, BBC, Coca-Cola HBC, Adidas. Led datacenter migration of 200+ HP-UX servers. ## Open Source (github.com/DevHatRo) - [zero-trust-proxy](https://github.com/DevHatRo/zero-trust-proxy): Zero-trust reverse proxy over mTLS — agents tunnel out from private networks, no inbound firewall holes. (Go) - [argocd-proxy-api](https://github.com/DevHatRo/argocd-proxy-api): Authenticated proxy in front of the ArgoCD API — token management, project filtering, for building dashboards. (Go) - [ipfailover](https://github.com/DevHatRo/ipfailover): Daemon that watches IPs and rewrites DNS records on failure — lightweight DNS-based failover. (Go) - [ClamAV-API](https://github.com/DevHatRo/ClamAV-API): HTTP API in front of ClamAV antivirus — file scanning, streaming uploads, health checks. (Go) - [clamav-api-sdk-go](https://github.com/DevHatRo/clamav-api-sdk-go): Official Go SDK for ClamAV-API. (Go) - [clamav-api-sdk-node](https://github.com/DevHatRo/clamav-api-sdk-node): Official TypeScript/Node SDK. (TypeScript) - [clamav-api-sdk-python](https://github.com/DevHatRo/clamav-api-sdk-python): Official Python SDK. (Python) - [tf-state-move](https://github.com/DevHatRo/tf-state-move): Bulk Terraform state surgery — move, import, and rename resources across state files. (Go) - [pgbackup](https://github.com/DevHatRo/pgbackup): PostgreSQL backups with automatic daily/weekly/monthly rotation — single static binary, tiered retention, cron/systemd-friendly. (Go) - [helm-charts](https://github.com/DevHatRo/helm-charts): Production-grade Helm charts for common DevOps infrastructure. Indexed at https://devhatro.github.io/helm-charts. (Helm) - [homebrew-tap](https://github.com/DevHatRo/homebrew-tap): Homebrew tap for DevHat CLI tooling — `brew install` the tools (tf-state-move and friends) straight from source. (Ruby) ## Tech Stack - **Cloud & Infrastructure:** AWS (ECS, EKS, Lambda, IoT Core, CloudWatch, S3, KMS, SQS, RDS, Firehose, CloudFront, EventBridge), Terraform, Ansible, Linux (HP-UX, AIX, RedHat, Ubuntu). - **Containers & Orchestration:** Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), Docker, ArgoCD, Helm. - **CI/CD & GitOps:** GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD. - **Monitoring & Logging:** Prometheus + Alertmanager + Grafana, Zabbix, ELK Stack, AWS CloudWatch. - **Programming & Scripting:** Go, Python, Bash. - **Databases:** PostgreSQL, Aurora, MySQL / MySQL Cluster. - **Blockchain:** Polkadot / Substrate, node lifecycle management, chain bootstrapping. ## Contact - **Email:** vukomir@ianculov.ro - **Contact form:** https://ianculov.io/#contact - **GitHub:** https://github.com/DevHatRo - **Location:** Timișoara, Romania