Alex Necula
Software Development Engineer L4 at Adobe
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolAlex Necula is a Software Development Engineer L3 with 10 years of experience specializing in backend systems, Java (Spring Boot/Quarkus), distributed systems, and cloud-native architectures. Based in Bucharest and currently at Adobe, he has driven impactful platform work—leading a migration to GitOps with ArgoCD and building Kafka-based rate limiting that protected downstream teams and unlocked revenue opportunities. He has deep operational expertise running petabyte-scale Kafka pipelines, defining SLIs/SLOs, and improving observability with Prometheus/Grafana and anomaly detection to cut MTTR. Alex pairs hands-on engineering with product-minded outcomes, delivering tenant-level visibility, quota monitoring, and cost-saving Kafka routing that removed HTTP hops and reduced infrastructure costs. His background includes building Kubernetes operators and automation tools that replaced manual interventions, reflecting a strong focus on reliability and developer velocity. High academic performance in computer engineering underpins a pragmatic approach to solving complex distributed-systems challenges.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 9.4/10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, 9.4/10 at Universitatea POLITEHNICA din BucureștiLiceul Teoretic "Traian" Constanta
Romanian, German, English, Spanish
Github Skills (68)
k8s-operator10
continuous-delivery9
pipeline9
helm9
python9
automation9
docker9
devops9
continuous-deployment9
cicd9
cd9
gitops9
jsonnet8
kustomize8
monitoring8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
alex-necula/go-cruise-control
Mar 2023 - Apr 2023
It's client library written in Golang for interacting with Linkedin Cruise Control using its HTTP API.
Contributions:5 releases, 6 reviews, 2 PRs in 29 days
alex-necula/Assembly-Labs
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Repository public IOCLA
Contributions:2 PRs, 10 pushes in 24 days
public-repository
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