Catalin Gangalic
Software Engineer at Stripe
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolCatalin Gangalic is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and core cloud infrastructure, currently focused on safe continuous deployments at Stripe. He holds dual engineering masters from INSA Lyon and KTH, and has shipped production work across Microsoft Azure, Facebook, Amazon, HubSpot and Amadeus, spanning C++, C#, Python, JavaScript and functional languages like Clojure. His background blends systems-level engineering (IPv6, scalable services) with practical orchestration and CI optimization—his master’s thesis work at HubSpot reduced CI queue times by up to 20% using time-series prediction. Equally comfortable refactoring high-impact UIs and tuning backends, he’s improved complex queries from 30s+ to under 1s in an internal Facebook tool used by 10k+ engineers. A polyglot both technically and culturally, he’s lived and worked across seven countries and visited 100+ nations, bringing global perspective to distributed-system design and team collaboration.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Software Engineering of Distributed Systems, Master of Engineering - MEng Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyHigh School Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Mathematics and Computer Science at Liceul Teoretic OrizontMaster of Engineering - MEng Computer Science and Informational Technology, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Science and Informational Technology at INSA Lyon - Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon
English, Romanian, Russian, French, German, Spanish, Swedish
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Gangalic/PolarIceChallenge
Oct 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:34 pushes in 21 days
Gangalic/PLD-SMART
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
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