Bogdan Matu
Production Engineering Manager at Shopify
Canada
Summary
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RockstarBogdan Matu is a production engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on experience building and scaling distributed platforms, currently leading a 13-person team at Shopify. He combines deep practical knowledge of Ruby on Rails, Go, Kafka, Redis, MySQL and Kubernetes with a penchant for automating away manual work to free up time for harder technical problems. Bogdan has shipped high‑impact systems—most notably a real‑time Black Friday/Cyber Monday event pipeline that handled millions of Kafka events and ~1 billion websocket messages with minimal resource usage. His background spans developer tools, CI/CD and release engineering, where he has repeatedly driven large gains in deployment speed and reliability. Based in Canada, he prefers developer-focused companies and brings a blend of hands-on coding, architecture leadership and mentorship to solve complex production challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (75)
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resumable10
background-service10
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asynchronous-tasks10
monkey10
job-scheduler9
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ruby9
php8
redis8
rails8
kue8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
BoGs/semian
Aug 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 7 months
railsmonkeyresiliencyruby
BoGs/translator-ui
Oct 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 20 pushes, 17 branches in 3 months
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