Andra Cismaru
Software Engineering Manager at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAndra Cismaru is a Software Engineering Manager based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 25 years of experience designing high-performance, real-time distributed systems and a decade-plus in cloud-native and service-mesh technologies. She has led technical teams at Google driving GKE and Anthos Service Mesh (Istio OSS) and contributed to the Istio project—improving mixer integration and ingress gateway debugging—to bridge production reliability with open-source ecosystems. Her background in networking (BGP, MPLS, L2/L3 VPNs, OpenFlow) and deep systems programming (Java, C/C++, multithreading, performance tuning) informs pragmatic architectures that emphasize scalability, HA, and observability. Comfortable managing multicultural remote teams, she combines network protocol expertise with cloud-native patterns to deliver operationally resilient services. An early career in game engine and network OS development gives her a rare blend of low-level systems craftsmanship and large-scale cloud service leadership.
11 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyHigh School Bacalaureat, High School Bacalaureat at Colegiul National de Informatica Tudor Vianu, Bucharest
English, French, Romanian
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Github Skills (16)
ingress10
istio10
env10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
microservices-application10
go10
microservices10
envoyproxy10
convoy10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
devops9
autopilot9
docker9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Feb 2017 - Jul 2020
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:298 commits, 186 PRs, 386 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Andra's contributions primarily focused on integrating and managing Istio components within the `istio/istio` repository. They implemented and tested the mixer component and related integration steps within deployment workflows. Further work involved improving the debugging and testing of the ingress gateway and general infrastructure. The changes involved integrating the mixer and proxy debug images, with core file handling.
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