Guide to Balancing Speed and Control in DevOps

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Flavius Dinu

Flavius is a passionate Developer Advocate with an Infrastructure as Code mindset and expertise in DevOps & Cloud Engineering. He is a Docker Captain and holds ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management and Hashicorp Terraform Associate Certification. He currently works at Spacelift, and in his free time, he blogs at techblog.flaviusdinu.com, where he provides tutorials, tips, and tricks for all levels of experience based on his exposure.

Highlights

Developer Advocate at Spacelift, AWS Community Builder & Docker Captain

Education

  • University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Master's degree, Internet Systems Engineering
  • University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

License and certifications

  • HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
  • ITIL Foundation Certificate in IT Service Management
Flavius Dinu

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