Alexandru Topala
Team Lead at EPAM Systems
Bucharest Metropolitan Area Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandru Topala is a pragmatic team lead and fullstack engineer with eight years of experience building data-intensive, cloud-native systems across startups and large engineering organizations. He designs and ships backend microservices and real-time pipelines (Java/Spring, Python, Apache Pulsar) while also delivering modern frontends in React and TypeScript, and operates end-to-end on AWS/Azure and Kubernetes. As co-founder of a transcription-focused startup he threaded together real‑time messaging, CI/CD, and on‑prem/cloud deployments, showing a blend of product sense and hands‑on execution. At EPAM he now leads a team delivering large-scale ETL and analytics workloads, moving Parquet data between Snowflake, S3, and enterprise data warehouses. He pairs technical leadership with teaching experience—having mentored Java developers for years—so he’s as comfortable coaching engineers as he is troubleshooting complex distributed jobs. Based in Bucharest with a background in electronics and IT engineering, he tends to favor pragmatic automation and reproducible infrastructure over hype.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (12)
pyopenssl6
google-cloud-storage6
pulsar4
streaming4
messaging4
queuing4
pubsub3
event-streaming2
helm2
apache-pulsar2
apache2
kubernetes2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alexandrutopala/java1A_THU_OCT_2018
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:8 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
alexandrutopala/exercitii_java1A
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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