Alina Radu
Engineering Manager - Ad Products (Biz Multi Location Group)
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlina Radu is an engineering manager based in London with 12 years’ experience building secure, scalable distributed systems and leading cross-functional teams at Yelp. She blends deep hands-on expertise in security, Python, Kafka, Kubernetes and AWS with a strong record of growing engineering talent and shipping mission-critical streaming and ad-product platforms. Her background in network security and operational work—such as enhancing PaaSTA’s security-checks and automating Kafka key rotation—reflects a practical focus on improving security posture in production systems. She’s also been an active D&I leader, running Ally Skills workshops and leading the AWE UK chapter, which speaks to her commitment to inclusive engineering culture. Colleagues know her for combining technical rigor with stakeholder-driven product delivery across US, Canada and Europe.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Spanish, Romanian, English
Github Skills (12)
it-security10
paas10
python10
cicd10
security10
dockers9
kubernetes-pods9
docker9
kubernetes9
infrastructure8
automation8
automations8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Yelp/paasta
Apr 2017 - Jun 2018
An open, distributed platform as a service
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:18 commits, 16 PRs, 28 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Alina primarily focused on enhancing the security-check process within the PaaSTA platform. Their contributions included modifying the security-check script to return test results, updating the output format, and integrating notifications via email and Jira tickets upon failure. Furthermore, the user updated the documentation and made improvements to the security-check parameter handling. They appear to be heavily involved in operational improvements around security.
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
transcedentalia/git-secret
May 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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