Andrei Savu
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorAndrei Savu is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 17 years of experience building large-scale data platforms, cloud infrastructure, and AI agent tooling from startup to enterprise. Currently at Rippling he focuses on context engineering and low-latency analytics—authoring a patent-pending Trino extension that leverages S3 Express for fast, cost-effective queries—and on making autonomous agents do useful work unattended. His background spans founding and exiting startups, leading cloud product efforts at Cloudera, and designing multi-petabyte analytics at Twitter, giving him rare fluency across architecture, operations, and product. An active open-source contributor (notably improving jclouds integration tests and CloudStack features), he combines pragmatic engineering with a taste for high-impact, measurable systems. Colleagues describe him as feedback-driven and outcome-obsessed, with a knack for turning complex data problems into operational solutions.
17 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
json-parser10
javas10
json10
jsonp10
parsing10
apache-cloudstack10
java10
testing10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
jclouds/legacy-jclouds
Nov 2011 - Oct 2012
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:195 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily focused on improving the integration tests for CloudStack, fixing bugs related to KT cloud environments, JSON parsing, and adding new features. Contributions involved modifying existing code, including fixing tests to prevent failures on specific cloud providers, fixing JSON parsing issues for IP forwarding rules and allowing users to reference a keypair. The user's work included implementation of a few CloudStack features.
apache/incubator-retired-provisionr
Oct 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:176 commits in 11 months
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