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Bogdan-Vasile Badiu — Cyber Security Engineer

About

Graduate of the Faculty of Engineering in the Multimedia System Engineering and Computer Science field. Cybersecurity Engineer passionate about Machine Learning, Generative AI, Game Theory and Quantum Computing. I am the type of person who tries to learn more each day and from each project. I like to solve problems and to understand the base of the problem — why it emerged and how to solve it.

Work Experience

01/12/2022 — Present | Sibiu, Romania

Cyber Security Engineer

NTT DATA Romania

Responsibilities:

Management of Google Security Operations (formerly Chronicle) and Exabeam SIEM platforms — role mapping, log source onboarding, feed and parser configuration, platform administration
Management of Elasticsearch and Elastic Stack
Ansible scripts and roles for server automation
Infrastructure creation using Terraform (Azure, AWS)
Linux administration and Bash scripting
User Management and SSO configuration with Keycloak (OpenID / SAML)
EDR Platform Administration (Carbon Black)
Docker container management with docker-compose
Azure / Azure DevOps workflows
OpenVPN administration

22/03/2022 — 01/12/2022 | Sibiu, Romania

Junior Cyber Security Engineer

NTT DATA Romania

Responsibilities:

Basic management of Elasticsearch and Elastic Stack
Ansible scripts and roles for server automation
Infrastructure creation using Terraform
Linux commands and Bash scripting to configure and monitor servers

21/01/2020 — 31/01/2020 | Sibiu, Romania

Employee Emotion Recognition Badge

"Lucian Blaga" University from Sibiu

Using Python with OpenCV library for image reading
Extracting characteristic facial landmark points from images
Calculating distances between points to determine emotion type
Applying machine learning algorithms for automatic emotion detection

07/07/2019 — 26/09/2019 | Sibiu, Romania

Summer Intern

S.C. Continental Automotive Sibiu

Writing Embedded C code
Writing C# code to modify existing applications
Understanding microcontroller concepts and architecture

Personal Projects & Self-Hosting

Ongoing | Self-Hosted

Self-Hosted Homelab Server

Personal Linux infrastructure

Linux server I administrate myself, used to host my own services and experiment with infrastructure tooling.

Server networking configured from scratch — static public IP and host-level firewall
DNS managed via Cloudflare (domain records and proxying)
NAT / port forwarding from the public IP to container HTTP / HTTPS endpoints
Segregated Incus container networks — services isolated from the host and from each other
Caddy as reverse proxy and HTTPS termination
Rootless Podman for application containers
Hands-on Linux administration, Bash automation and service deployment

Ongoing | Open Source

claude-sandbox — Author / Maintainer

github.com/BogdanBadiu/claude-sandbox

Open-source CLI tool I built and maintain for running isolated, per-project Claude Code sandboxes via rootless Podman.

Bash, rootless container design, per-repo SSH deploy keys
Cross-distro support (Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch, openSUSE, Alpine)
Per-project CLAUDE.md instructions and extended images via Containerfiles

Ongoing | Hands-On

AI Coding Agents

Self-taught practice

Day-to-day use of Claude Code (Anthropic's AI coding agent) on personal projects. Practical experience with prompt design, project-level CLAUDE.md instructions and sandboxing strategies that keep AI agents inside controlled environments.

Education & Training

01/10/2021 — Present | Sibiu, Romania

Advanced Computing Systems (Master's)

"Lucian Blaga" University — Faculty of Engineering

Research Methods in Advanced Computing Architectures
Advanced Studies in Programming Engineering
Advanced Text Mining Methods
Neuroprocessing
Artificial Intelligence in Game Theory
Advanced Compression Methods
Advances in Computer Vision
Agent and Service-Oriented Software Engineering
Multiagent Systems
Evolutionary Computing

30/09/2017 — 07/07/2021 | Sibiu, Romania

Multimedia Systems Engineering (Bachelor's)

"Lucian Blaga" University — Faculty of Engineering — Final grade: 9.60 / 10

Thesis: Comparative study between different clustering algorithms (Machine Learning) — download PDF (Romanian, 2.6 MB)

Object-Oriented Programming (C#, Java, C++)
Electronics, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
Design Patterns, Data Structures & Algorithms
Assembly language (MIPS, DLX, 8086)
Databases and SQL
Web Technologies (PHP, HTML, JS, CSS)
OpenGL and DirectX9 Graphics
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Mining
Operating Systems, Coding and Image Processing
Microprocessor and Dedicated Systems
GitHub & version control

14/09/2013 — 30/09/2017 | Sibiu, Romania

Technician in Economic Activities

"George Bariţiu" Economic College from Sibiu

Certificate in company organization and planning, obtained at the end of high school economic studies.

Digital Skills

Machine Learning Generative AI Quantum Computing Game Theory Python Android Studio Java C++ C C# Microsoft Office Linux Bash Scripting MySQL SQL Git / GitHub JSON Visual Studio Data Structures & OOP PHP HTML5 CSS3 Bootstrap jQuery Ansible ELK Stack Terraform Docker DevOps / DevSecOps Keycloak SSO OpenVPN Azure / Azure DevOps Google SecOps (Chronicle) Exabeam SIEM Administration Incus Podman Caddy Self-Hosting Networking / NAT DNS (Cloudflare) Network Segmentation AI Coding Agents (Claude Code)

Language Skills

Language	Listening	Reading	Spoken Interaction	Spoken Production	Writing
Romanian	Native
English	C1	C1	C1	C1	C1

Levels: A1/A2 — Basic user | B1/B2 — Independent user | C1/C2 — Proficient user

Additional Information

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Organisational Skills

Certificate in company organization and planning, obtained at the end of high school economic studies.

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Interpersonal Skills

Carried out multiple projects using different programming languages and environments. Developed strong teamwork skills through collaborative work.

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Communication Skills

Good communication skills acquired through group activities and professional team environments.