Calin Don
Co-Founder at Bitpoke
Timiș, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolCalin Don is a pragmatic, language-agnostic engineering leader and co-founder with 13 years of experience building cloud-native and web platforms from Romania. As Co-Founder & CTO at Bitpoke and previously co-founder/CTO of Presslabs, he blends hands-on backend development with product-level ownership, shipping infrastructure and SaaS features. His open-source contributions show deep systems chops—improving Kubernetes controller-runtime reliability and enhancing versioned filesystem and MySQL orchestration tooling—highlighting a focus on resilient, containerized deployments. A perfectionist and lifelong WordPress tinkerer since 2005, he pairs a service-oriented mindset with careful attention to logging, error handling and operational edge cases. He is equally comfortable writing low-level fixes (statfs, symlink support, `.gitignore` parsing) and designing Docker-friendly deployment flows. Based in Timiș, he brings entrepreneurial grit, deep DevOps/database experience, and a bias for shipping robust, observable systems.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Politehnica University of TimisoaraElena Ghiba Birta
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Github Skills (26)
git10
kubernetes10
docker10
controller-manager10
python10
mysql10
fuse10
dockers10
go10
sql10
kubernetes-pods10
api-design9
filesystem9
replication9
macos8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
presslabs/gitfs
Jul 2014 - Nov 2015
Version controlled file system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:61 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Calin primarily focused on enhancing the `gitfs` version-controlled file system project. Their contributions include implementing features like support for symbolic links and fixing issues in the current view. They also addressed mounting on OSX, added functionality for `statfs` to the index view, and refactored the code to handle comments and line endings within the `.gitignore` file. The commits also include enhancements to the router and integrating changes from the master branch.
filesystemfuse-filesystempython
openark/orchestrator
Dec 2016 - Mar 2018
MySQL replication topology management and HA
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Database EngineerContributions:6 PRs, 9 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Calin primarily focused on integrating Docker support for the orchestrator application. This involved creating a Dockerfile and modifying the entrypoint script for containerization. Additionally, the user addressed configuration issues within the Docker image and adjusted the configuration to use environment variables. Furthermore, the user demonstrated knowledge of database interaction by modifying the pseudo-gtid SQL script.
mysql-replicationmysqlreplicationhigh-availabilitymanagement-system
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