Octavian Ciuhandu

Octavian Ciuhandu is the COO of Cloudbase Solutions, a company focused on cloud computing interoperability, based in Timisoara, Romania. Cloudbase Solutions provides integration between OpenStack and Windows, including the Hyper-V Nova Compute driver and Windows Cloud-Init. Octavian is a young entrepreneur that started his own business in 2004, right after graduating a research M.Sc. in Dublin, Ireland. He has over 20 years of experience with Microsoft and Linux platforms, network management and security. Proficiency in designing applications for scalability and availability is ensured following his research masters area of expertise. Since 2012, focusing on Openstack, integrating Openstack and Windows, and especially on deploying and running Openstack CIs for Microsoft Windows. In his free time, Octavian enjoys off-road driving and skiing.