Who am I?
I’m Dragos Madarasan, a Lead Solutions Architect, speaker and author working in the cloud computing field. I work for Amazon Web Services, a subsidiary of Amazon that offers IT infrastructure services to millions of customers.
I currently lead a team of Solutions Architects based in Romania, driving technical pre-sales and GenAI go-to-market strategy for clients in the financial services, energy and retail sectors. My journey at AWS started in 2015 as a Cloud Support Engineer in Dublin, Ireland, followed by a Professional Services Consultant role in Stockholm, Sweden, and an Enterprise Solutions Architect position covering Germany and Romania before moving into my current leadership role.
Before AWS, I worked for several years at Endava, a managed services provider company based in London, UK, where I dealt with level 3 technical support. My first ‘job’ was for the Faculty of Architecture in Cluj-Napoca where I worked as a system administrator. I have a technical background and started my professional career as a network administrator, switched to Windows and virtualization in 2009 and then to cloud computing in late 2015.
Several times a year I speak at AWS Summits, Cloud Days and local meetup groups across Europe. I enjoy sharing my experience and anecdotes with the community and am a big believer that public speaking is a unique form of communication.
Why this blog?
Early on, I noticed the best way to memorize information is to write it down. I started writing about interesting troubleshooting scenarios I encountered and various scripts or commands that made my life easier. I have used many blogging platforms since then, including Kentico and WordPress, but now i prefer using static websites since they are simple to spin up and cost next to nothing to run.
Disclosure
As an employee of AWS, I own a small number of restricted stock units in Amazon. My opinions are my own and Amazon does not pre-approve any articles I post.