Robert Melcher
/ˈmɛrɒks/ • noun
Why "Merox"?
ME(lcher) + RO(bert) + X
formerly mer0x39 → 0x39 = 57 = July 5th birthday
Tech Stack
HPC & Infrastructure
PBS Pro InfiniBand iDRAC Altair
Cloud & Virtualization
AWS Oracle Cloud Docker Kubernetes Proxmox Rancher
DevOps & Automation
Terraform Ansible Puppet Salt GitOps Flux
Security & Networking
CCNA Fortinet Palo Alto Nessus StrongSwan CyberArk
Experience
HPC System Administrator
Forvia • 2022 – Present
Enterprise HPC cluster management, datacenter deployments, InfiniBand networking, PBS scheduling
Cybersecurity Engineer
Atos • 2020 – 2022
Firewall policy management, CyberArk PAM, Forescout NAC
System Administrator
Netex Romania • 2018 – 2020
Puppet to K8s migration, Asterisk VOIP, datacenter operations
Key Projects
- Full datacenter deployments with InfiniBand clusters at Forvia
- Homelab Kubernetes cluster with Talos Linux, Flux GitOps, and Cilium CNI
- Proxmox virtualization with automated deployments on Dell R720
- pfSense firewall with VLAN segmentation and WAF security
- AWS/EC2 applications and Oracle Ampere ARM testing
- Infrastructure automation with cert-manager, external-dns, and SOPS secrets
Education
Computer Science
West University of Timișoara • 2016–2018
CCNA Certification
Cisco • 2019–2020