About

I am Alexandru Budurovici, a Senior Technical Lead in Zurich, working on architecture and platform engineering. Fifteen-plus years building software and shipping products. The work I want next is architecture and delivery across several teams.

I started in Madrid. I launched Videouri, a video search product built from scratch, and internal tooling that cut a logistics company's shipping-quote preparation from half a day to minutes. I also helped run hackathons and coworking communities there.

In the UK I co-founded a startup doing public-sector cloud work and high-profile digital campaigns. We were among the first teams putting AWS into production in that context.

Then seven years at Cloudreach, architecting and delivering enterprise cloud programmes for UBS, BP, Unilever, and Schneider Electric. That role ended in December 2024 when Cloudreach was folded into Eviden.

Since then I have been building and operating my own products.

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I operate what I design

Both of my products run on infrastructure I maintain myself. When a design decision is wrong, I am the one who finds out in production.

Architecture decisions before code

I would rather spend a week on the tenancy model than retrofit it in year two. The most expensive mistakes I have watched teams make were all committed before the first line of application code.

Boring infrastructure wins

I optimise for systems that can be left alone for a week. Anything needing routine manual intervention gets automated or removed.

End to end, or not at all

On my own products I run the whole chain alone: schema, billing, infrastructure, frontend, deployment. At Cloudreach I led the infrastructure side at portfolio scale for UBS, BP, Unilever, and Schneider Electric.

What I turn down

Greenfield rewrites of systems that currently work. Kubernetes for three services. Multi-cloud adopted because it sounds resilient rather than because a specific requirement demands it.

One permanent senior role in technical leadership, cloud architecture, or platform engineering. Architecture and strategy across teams, with accountability for the technical health of a product line or several engineering teams.

Switzerland-based, hybrid or remote, with purposeful on-site time. I am interested in problems where the architecture decisions still matter, and in organisations that expect a Senior Technical Lead to own them.

Now · Updated September 2026

Building out Heftli's billing and reconciliation layer, and writing a series on multi-cloud network topology decisions.

Areas of focus

Platforms and infrastructure

Linux, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Ansible on AWS, Azure, GCP, and hybrid estates with on-premises virtualisation, and the cost of running them.

Full-stack development

Products I build and run in TypeScript, Next.js, React and Remix, Node.js, Python, and PHP, on Supabase, Cloudflare Workers, and DigitalOcean.

Leadership and delivery

Multi-team architecture and strategy: roadmaps, system scalability, and the technical debt that accumulates when those decisions are deferred. Priorities agreed directly with the people who own the budget.

Certifications

AWSSolutions Architect Professional. DevOps Engineer Professional.

Google CloudProfessional Cloud Architect

AzureAdministrator Associate (AZ-104)

Practical

Based

Zurich, Switzerland. On-site across Switzerland, hybrid, or remote.

Languages

English, German, Spanish, Romanian, French.

I lead Rhine Valley Expats, a Swiss association with more than a thousand members, and I have organised and run outdoor programmes for hundreds of people. Both are the same skill as delivery: logistics, people, and things going wrong on a schedule.

I volunteer with the Isha Foundation on infrastructure, and with Wägmacher Sarganserland on local trail building.

Otherwise: mountains, motorbikes, and rebuilding things in a garage.

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