Alexandru Uta
Team Lead Engineering Manager at DFINITY
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAlexandru Uta is a Team Lead and Engineering Manager based in Zurich with eight years of experience at the intersection of industry and academia, specializing in large-scale distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and serverless platforms. He holds a PhD in Large-scale Computer Systems and has transitioned academic rigor into production-focused roles at DFINITY and AWS, previously serving as an assistant professor and recipient of the competitive NWO Veni award. Alexandru blends hands-on systems design and performance engineering with people leadership, having taught and supervised students across levels while guiding research-to-product efforts. His background spans postdoc work and internships at Databricks and Hyves, reflecting both deep research credentials and practical software engineering chops. Notably, he brings a researcher's emphasis on measurement and performance optimization to building resilient, efficient distributed storage and data-processing systems.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Large-scale Computer Systems, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Large-scale Computer Systems at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Bucharest
Github Skills (16)
portal10
internet10
motoko10
internet-computer10
web-application10
dfinity10
nodes10
blockchain10
docker9
programming-language8
altium-designer8
rep7
mac-address6
specification6
infrastructure2
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
alexandru-uta/measure-tcp-latency
Aug 2019 - Apr 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 25 pushes in 8 months
alexandru-uta/alexandru-uta.github.io
Nov 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 7 months
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