Business Development Director for ROSPIN · Building Romania's space economy.
DevOps engineer at COERA. EO Platform PM at AIM-SPACE. Connecting cloud infrastructure to orbital ambition.
I'm a DevOps engineer with a foot firmly in the space industry. By day I build cloud-native infrastructure at COERA - AWS, Kubernetes, observability stacks designed for scale and reliability. By the second half of the day I lead the Earth Observation platform at AIM-SPACE, turning satellite imagery into products customers can actually use. And in the evenings, I help build the Romanian space ecosystem at ROSPIN, where I'm now stepping in as Business Development Director.
The pattern matters. Cloud infrastructure and Earth Observation aren't separate fields anymore - the future of space is increasingly built on cloud, and someone has to translate between those worlds. That's where I sit. My ROSPIN journey started years earlier, founding the community as its first Community Manager, launching ROSPIN School, building the Satellite Data Processing Masterclass with Babeș-Bolyai University. The Business Development Director role is a continuation, not a pivot.
I hold a BSc in Computer Science from Babeș-Bolyai University and I'm pursuing a Master's in Distributed Systems on the Internet there. Outside the work: violin and guitar, contemporary dance, third place at the National Astronomy & Astrophysics Olympiad. I speak Romanian, English (C1), and intermediate German. I'm based in Cluj-Napoca, and I'm building from here.
Leading partnerships, strategy, and ecosystem growth at ROSPIN. Connecting Romanian space tech to European institutions, industry partners, and academic networks. Building the structures that turn interest in space into long-term engagement.
Cloud-native systems at COERA: AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD, observability with Prometheus + Thanos + Grafana. Scale, reliability, delivery - the infrastructure mindset that increasingly powers modern space missions.
Leading product strategy at AIM-SPACE for an EO platform. Working with Sentinel-2, Sentinel-1 SAR, Copernicus pipelines, Google Earth Engine. Translating satellite data capability into customer-facing products and roadmaps.
Public-domain Earth observation imagery. The medium I work with daily - and the reason cloud infrastructure matters more every year.
ROSPINLeading the organisation's growth strategy and partnerships. Translating Romania's space ambition into structured engagement with European institutions, industry partners, and universities. The role is a continuation of work that began as Community Manager four years ago.
Cluj StartupsMentoring early-stage founders in the Cluj-Napoca startup community - product, cloud architecture, and the hard parts of going from prototype to production.
COERA BC SRLCloud-native infrastructure for production-scale systems. Kubernetes operations, AWS & Azure, Terraform, ArgoCD, Prometheus + Thanos + Grafana observability stacks. Speaker at CNCF Cluj-Napoca on Kubernetes autoscaling with Karpenter.
AIM-SPACELeading product strategy for an Earth Observation platform - Sentinel-2 optical, Sentinel-1 SAR, Copernicus pipelines, Google Earth Engine. Translating satellite-data capability into customer-facing products and roadmap.
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ROSPIN × Babeș-Bolyai UniversityBuilt and continues to run the program in partnership with Babeș-Bolyai University: a semester-long course teaching Sentinel-2, Copernicus, and Google Earth Engine to undergraduates.
ROSPINManages rospin.org infrastructure; mentors junior developers across WordPress, cPanel, and React.
AIM-SPACESatellite data processing and geospatial analysis. Promoted internally to EO Platform PM.
Romanian Science FestivalROSPINOrganised large-scale space-education events across 11 cities in Romania.
ROSPINFounded the program; inaugural edition reached 300+ high-school participants.
ROSPINBabeș-Bolyai UniversityBabeș-Bolyai UniversityROSPINThe latest from /in/simoneldavid. Auto-refreshed at every build from the live feed.
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A semester-long course teaching students to work with Sentinel-2, Copernicus, and Google Earth Engine - built and managed in partnership with Babeș-Bolyai University.
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