Alexandru Eftimie
Staff Engineer, Developer Enablement at GetYourGuide
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Eftimie is a Staff Engineer in Developer Enablement at GetYourGuide with 15 years of experience building web and infrastructure tooling across backend and frontend stacks. Passionate about functional programming and free software, he combines hands-on engineering with platform thinking to improve developer productivity and CI/CD workflows. He has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Backstage, Argo CD and Woodpecker, adding practical features like iterative scaffolding steps, UI/UX improvements and snapshot/restore support for Elasticsearch management. His background ranges from leading small teams and startups to operating at scale in developer tooling, and he brings a strong interest in education and automation to his work. Based in Zurich, he pairs academic training in network and computer security with a steady record of shipping pragmatic, community-minded solutions.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Highschool Diploma at Colegiul Naţional Vlaicu VodăMaster of Science (MS), Network and Computer Security, Master of Science (MS), Network and Computer Security at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, German, French
Github Skills (41)
scaffold10
ux-design10
javascript10
python-click10
python10
amazon-elasticsearch10
command-line-interface10
typescript10
ui-design10
cicd10
elasticsearchquery10
backstage10
aws-elasticsearch10
typescript-types10
command-line10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
woodpecker-ci/woodpecker
Feb 2021 - Oct 2021
Woodpecker is a simple, yet powerful CI/CD engine with great extensibility.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 14 commits, 11 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributed to the front-end development of the Woodpecker CI/CD platform, implementing UI enhancements for build details and build listings. They added functionality to display author information and integrated a branch filtering feature. Additionally, the user fixed linting issues and updated documentation links. They also made minor code changes in the backend.
devopsdockerwoodpeckercidrone-cidrone
argoproj/argo-cd
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Declarative Continuous Deployment for Kubernetes
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:103 reviews, 43 commits, 45 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributed to the UI/UX aspects of the Argo CD project. They implemented features such as sorting in the resource list view and displaying auto sync status. Additionally, the user made various UI/UX improvements, including mobile CSS fixes, improved dropdown menus, and the display of application age. The user also fixed UI related bugs such as making the remove override button clickable and fixing incomplete drop-down resource actions.
cdcontinuous-deploymentdokkupipelinehelm
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