Andrei Raven Merlescu Staff Computer Engineer | Co-Founder | Father

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Co-Founder

Play and Prosper Therapy, PLLC

Feb 2020 - Current (6 years 7 months)

Assisted Dr Heather Ajzenman in the founding of Play and Prosper Therapy, PLLC in New Hampshire and Maine to provide equine assisted occupational, physical and speech therapy from licensed providers that accepts all major insurances with few exclusions that apply. Worked with managed Kubernetes services, including DigitalOcean, to support the organization's infrastructure.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Beamable

Mar 2025 - Sep 2025 (7 months)

Migrated a single-region 70+ microservices distributed platform written in Scala and C# and recovered their Terraform state from data loss and made their platform multi-region - something they were unable to perform until I fixed the problem. I chose to leave the gaming industry for personal reasons after my employment experience with Beamable. I also chose to turn the other cheek on a problem that I had with their company. It was easier for me to leave than make a hill of bananas out of hard evidence that would have costed the company 3x my annual salary. I chose to save them money by moving on after I saved their infrastructure. I just really don't like the egos and agenda in the gaming industry. They shut down good tech that saves hundr

Senior DevOps Engineer

SurgePays Inc NASDAQ SURG

Feb 2022 - Apr 2026 (4 years 3 months)

Recovered the company from a Zero Day Ransomware attack at 6AM on 12/6/25 where AWS systems were restored, 7 hours of data loss, and I collaborated with the EVP and CTO to bring disaster recovery policies forward company wide to prevent such an event from occurring again. Developed Infrastructure as Code (IAC) for their AWS + Underground Colo architecture. Managed GitLab, Wazuh, and other Linux Systems.

Senior Application Engineer

WB Games New York

Nov 2021 - Jun 2024 (2 years 8 months)

Administered 85 Helix Core Perforce servers (Windows + Linux) for over 1PB of assets across 12 AAA Game Studios and rolled out observability tooling (grafana + p4prometheus), data migration services (python p4transfer rewrite in go), and Window to Linux migrations.

Senior DevOps Engineer

Bit Fry Game Studios Inc

Jan 2021 - Oct 2021 (10 months)

Asked to reduce a $17K/mo AWS Game Build DevOps bill. I asked for $69K up front. I built a private colo in Wisconsin for them that reduced OPEX to $2K/mo and rendered game builds from 9 hours in a boiler room to 30 minutes in an off-site 12-Mac Pro + 360 TB QNAP NAS private cloud within 6 months.

Senior Release Manager

Oracle

Jan 2017 - Aug 2020 (3 years 8 months)

I joined Oracle through their acquisition of Dyn, signed by Larry Ellison himself, and one of the first employees of OCI. I inherited their Cloud Group's 80% release success statistic and Dyn's 99.9% release success statistic and I was assigned with overseeing that an organization growing from 500 employees to 5000 employees (10x) would be able to go from 80% to 99.9% in their release success. What I introduced was a postmortem process that was blameless and "own without ego" to find "engineering excellency" in the problems we faced. Some would take weeks to complete and have a hundred engineers across half a dozen time zones to solve. That brought the company to 99.9% and capable of competing with AWS in any meaningful capacity. I was invo

Senior Software Engineer

Cisco

Mar 2014 - Sep 2016 (2 years 7 months)

I joined the Cisco Cloud group out of San Jose and traveled around the world for the OpenStack summits including to Japan and Canada. I worked with RHEL and other enterprise flavors of SELinux enabled linux systems. I built DevOps pipelines in Gerrit for packages part of the OpenStack toolchain. Officially, I was part of the OpenStack at Cisco team. I did DevOps engineering work for them during this period.

Software Engineer

Cisco

Aug 2011 - Mar 2014 (2 years 8 months)

Supported LAMP (PHP+MySQL) Web Apps + Groovy on Grails Apps. Architected Ruby on Rails applications. Largest project, still running in 2026, is called VirtualDocs, and it transformed eCATS into SVS yielding a 10x gain on department efficiency under the leadership of Ed Carney and Marc Fath.

Engineer Intern

Cisco

Oct 2009 - Aug 2011 (1 year 11 months)

Recruited out of History Class at Wentworth during the last year serving as the IEEE Student Branch President. Dana Rock sought to speak with me and hired me on the spot despite 0 knowledge of computer networking. I joined because he wanted a Perl application to get upgraded and nobody else would do it. Through the grapevine, he heard what I did for the IEEE student branch, and he wanted to speak directly to me. I confirmed my interest, and that began a 6 year career with Cisco. The official job was networking engineer that performed rack and stack capabilities while studying for my CCNA. When I didn't have rack and stack tickets to work on, I worked on the Perl code building out JavaScript and CSS changes to the utility called omnitool. Ev

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Web Manager

S&W Publishing, LLC, Sawmill Publishing LLC

Sep 2006 - Sep 2023 (17 years 1 month)

Hired after winning Gold Medal in the Maine SkillsUSA 2005 Web Design competition by the Publisher of Sawmill and Woodlot Magazine in Belfast, ME by Walter Andrjewski. Paid $15/hr, I was to upgrade his HTML/CSS website once a month when a new issue came out. Upon end of my 3 month internship - which happened in my Junior year of High School - I asked for employment at that rate and built a digital magazine platform for his company. I stayed at $15/hr until the service ended 15 years later. Walter took a chance on me to let me build and grow with him and his business, and I rewarded him with loyalty.

Web Developer

MuggleNetcom

Jan 2003 - Dec 2005 (3 years)

PHP Developer working with MySQL, HTML and CSS building: 1. International News Translation Service (12 countries + USA/UK) 2. Developed Fan Fiction (LAMP) 3. Managed Coppermine Gallery (OSS LAMP) 4. Programmed JavsScript games (Wizard Cards, MuggleNet Interactive) Spent many hours in the high school computer lab working on Mugglenet.com when the Harry Potter books and movies were being launched. Did you know that 20 years later I would be in the credits to Hogwarts Legacy by WB Games? As Michael, I was literally the boy in the cupboard to my adoptive family. As Andrei, I launch my gaming career with getting in the credits to Hogwarts Legacy by helping WB Games for 3 years during that release.

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