Andrei Mihu
Co-Founder & CTO at Heroic Labs
England, United Kingdom
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Andrei Mihu is a seasoned software leader and co-founder who has spent 12 years building massively scalable, high-availability systems as CTO of Heroic Labs, a Y Combinator company enabling social and multiplayer infrastructure for games and apps. He combines hands-on backend development with strategic product direction, driving Nakama — an open-source distributed server for realtime games — and personally contributing performance-focused improvements like WebSocket session refactors and process isolation. Based in England, he blends system design, high-performance data processing, and interoperability to help studios ship multiplayer experiences that operate at massive scale. Andrei’s engineering approach is pragmatic and data-driven, often optimizing APIs, protobufs, and SQL to eke out real-world efficiency gains. He holds a BSc in Computer Science from Queen Mary University of London and brings founder-level ownership to both technical architecture and developer-facing tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science at Queen Mary, U. of London
Romanian, English
Github Skills (12)
go10
back-end-development10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
client-websocket9
server9
realtime9
websocket-client9
gameserver9
websocket9
websockets-client9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
heroiclabs/nakama
Feb 2017 - Jan 2023
Distributed server for social and realtime games and apps.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 363 reviews, 676 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Andrei's commits primarily focused on implementing and improving the back-end functionality of the Nakama server. Contributions include refactoring the WebSocket session management, enhancing performance through isolation of processes, and adding new functionality like the group get runtime function. Additionally, the user made changes to the API, protobuf definitions, and SQL queries, indicating a focus on optimizing performance and adding new features.
realtimegamechat-servergame-frameworkbackend-as-a-service
zyro/hyde-x
Aug 2014 - Feb 2018
Enhanced port of the Jekyll "Hyde" theme to Hugo
Contributions:45 commits, 18 PRs, 31 pushes in 3 years 6 months
hugojekyllhugo-themehyde
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