Catalin Toda
Production Engineer at Meta
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCatalin Toda is a Production Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale data and ML infrastructure, currently ensuring reliability for Facebook and Instagram ML models at Meta. He has deep systems and backend expertise—from implementing RTSP streaming and SAT>IP protocols in his long-standing open-source project minisatip to contributing kernel and video driver support for Rockchip platforms in Armbian. At Lyft and Facebook he led Spark infrastructure, migrations and compute consolidation efforts that improved performance and simplified orchestration for data and ML workloads. Skilled in debugging across layers (kernel, networking, distributed compute) and fluent in C, Python and production tooling, he combines hands-on embedded work with cloud-scale production engineering. Based in Redwood City, he blends operational rigor with low-level systems craftsmanship—often surfacing subtle hardware-software interactions that others miss.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University
Github Skills (26)
rtsp10
c-language10
compilation10
dvb10
broadcast-channel10
linux-kernel10
stream10
device-driver10
sys10
compile10
arm10
embedded10
protocols10
cprogramming-language10
streaming10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
armbian/build
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Armbian Linux build framework generates custom Debian or Ubuntu image for x86, aarch64, riscv64 & armhf
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:20 reviews, 11 commits, 26 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Catalin's commits primarily focus on adding and modifying drivers within the Armbian Linux build framework for the rockchip platform, including supporting hardware video decoding and fixing HDMI issues. The contributions involve adding new video decoder drivers (rkvdec) and adding/fixing the build on specific Rockchip-based platforms. These changes require deep knowledge of the kernel build process and hardware interaction. The user is also involved in debugging and resolving hardware-related issues, like the CEC disconnecting on TV restart.
kerneldocker-imagearchlinuxkernel-compilationlinux-kernel
openatv/enigma2
Nov 2017 - May 2022
openatv-gui
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 11 PRs, 4 comments in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Catalin primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the `enigma2` project, focusing on RTSP streaming capabilities. They implemented an RTSP server (`rtspstreamserver.cpp`) to accept SATIP URLs. Modifications were made to core DVB components, like `filepush.cpp` and `pmt.h`, suggesting an understanding of the underlying streaming and service management systems. Additional changes involved setting up the DMX socket and incorporating branding information.
oe-alliancegui
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