Catalin Hofnar
Go Developer at VOIS
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolCatalin Hofnar is a Go developer with 7 years of experience building cloud-native microservices, gRPC/Protobuf APIs, and CI/CD pipelines across OCI, AWS, and Azure ecosystems. He combines backend and DevOps responsibilities—writing Kubernetes manifests, ArgoCD workflows, Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions pipelines—while optimizing memory and execution time in production services. His open-source work on the zot registry shows a practical focus on efficient synchronization and debugging improvements in OCI-native artifact tooling. Comfortable from CLIs and desktop apps to distributed services, he also brings a QA and security-minded background that sharpens testing and reliability. Based in Bucharest, he rapidly learns new technologies and prefers projects that blend automation, performance, and pragmatic engineering.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (6)
occi10
docker10
go10
dockers10
testing10
cicd9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
project-zot/zot
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
zot - A scale-out production-ready vendor-neutral OCI-native container image/artifact registry (purely based on OCI Distribution Specification)
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:73 reviews, 20 commits, 33 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Catalin contributed significantly to enhancing the synchronization logic within the project, focusing on preventing redundant blob downloads and re-pushes, and optimizing data transfer. They refactored code to use new signatures for image references and added tests to validate the changes. The user also implemented an on-demand synchronization test for ORAS artifacts, indicating a focus on improving the registry's capabilities and sync mechanisms. Furthermore, the user modified sync log calls to include the error type, enhancing debugging capabilities.
containersdistribution-specdistributionvendorhelm
chofnar/release-bot
Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
release-bot - A Telegram Bot (@prgitrelbot) that notifies you of new Github releases
Contributions:6 releases, 39 commits, 50 PRs in 3 months
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