Mihai is pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in the field of Computer Science from the Faculty of Automation and Computing, currently being in his third year of studies at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Romania. He is very passionate about algorithms and performance optimizations, especially in relation to how they can affect large systems. During his stay at CERN, as part of the OIS group, he is working with CERN’s OpenStack cloud system, having the possibility to deploy and experiment with Manila, a file-sharing service of OpenStack.