Alexandru Cihodaru
Software Engineer at Bitdefender
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandru Cihodaru is a senior software engineer from Bucharest with 7 years of experience building secure, high-performance system software and observability tools. He is an eBPF and systems-programming specialist who has contributed to and maintained critical pieces of the Firecracker microVM project, improving HTTP handling and edge-case correctness in a widely used serverless VMM. His background spans security research and production engineering at Bitdefender, Garmin, AWS and Intel, with hands-on proficiency in Rust, C, and Python and growing expertise in Go and Kubernetes. Alexandru combines a strong academic foundation in computer security (MSc) with practical open-source impact, especially around low-level performance and monitoring. Colleagues know him for tightening attack surfaces and squeezing latency out of runtime components while keeping tests and diagnostics thorough. He thrives at the intersection of security, performance, and pragmatic engineering.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance, Master's degree, Computer and Information Systems Security/Information Assurance at Technical University of Cluj NapocaBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (UBB) / Babeș-Bolyai University
Github Skills (5)
http10
rust10
virtualization9
serverless8
container7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Aug 2020 - Apr 2022
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:249 reviews, 97 commits, 54 PRs in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributed to the `firecracker-microvm/firecracker` project by modifying the HTTP request handling logic within the micro-http module. They made the `InvalidHeader` error more verbose, changed how `TransferEncoding` is handled, and added new test cases. Additionally, the user added support for the `Accept-Encoding` header and implemented necessary functions for queue manipulation.
containerssecureminimalistrustserverless
AlexandruCihodaru/vm-allocator
Feb 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:78 pushes, 16 branches in 1 year 2 months
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