Andrei Gurau
Software Engineer at Google
Durham, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Gurau is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building backend systems and developer tooling, currently on Google’s engineering team after progressing through Capital One’s Technological Development Program. He has hands-on experience with Java and Go in production environments, having implemented APIs, data pipelines, and security-focused service brokers at The Home Depot and feature-driven improvements at Capital One. An active open-source contributor to the widely used Apache Beam project, he has improved Java SDK schema inference, Splunk integration, gzip support, and root certificate handling—work that strengthens large-scale batch and streaming data processing. Based in Durham, NC, Andrei blends enterprise-scale engineering with practical DevOps sensibilities and a track record of shipping robust, maintainable code.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.60/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.60/4.0 at University of Florida
English, Spanish
Github Skills (14)
javas10
apache-beam10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
java10
data-processing10
streaming9
batching9
batch9
big-data9
gcp7
golang4
python4
sql3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
apache/beam
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Apache Beam is a unified programming model for Batch and Streaming data processing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 5 commits, 10 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily focused on improving the Apache Beam project's Java SDK, specifically in the areas of schema inference and Splunk integration. Their work involved fixing bugs, enhancing the codebase with new features like enabling gzip compression, and integrating root certificate functionality. They also addressed code style issues and optimized various modules within the Java SDK, including the protobuf extension. These improvements contributed to better functionality and maintainability of the project's data processing capabilities.
apache-beamstreaming-datapythonjavabig-data
andreigurau/DataflowTemplates
May 2022 - Jan 2024
Google-provided Cloud Dataflow template pipelines for solving simple in-Cloud data tasks
Contributions:1 PR, 96 pushes, 33 branches in 1 year 8 months
data-cloudgcpsolvinggoogle-cloud-platformbigquery
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