Ciprian Tibulca
Staff Software Engineer at MongoDB
Dublin, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolCiprian Tibulca is a Staff Software Engineer based in Dublin with 11 years of experience building scalable APIs, observability platforms, and cloud-native systems across startups and large enterprises. He has held senior technical and leadership roles at MongoDB and Walmart Global Tech, where he designed CI/CD, monitoring, and workforce management architectures and mentored engineering teams. Ciprian combines back-end, DevOps and full‑stack experience—having implemented Kubernetes operator improvements for the popular mongodb/mongodb-kubernetes-operator, integrated Cert‑Manager, and automated resource lifecycle handling. He is fluent in building reliable developer tooling and CLIs, setting up fast local dev environments, and shipping production-grade API upgrade strategies. Known for pragmatic system design, he blends hands-on coding with platform-level thinking to simplify operations and accelerate teams. Outside of product work, he brings a history of observability and deployment-focused contributions that quietly reduce toil for operators and developers alike.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Engineering, BS, Computer Engineering at University of Suceava
English
Github Skills (11)
testing10
kubernetes10
develop10
go10
mongodb10
kubernetes-pods10
mongodb-database10
operator10
cicd9
yaml9
helm8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongodb-kubernetes-operator
May 2021 - Dec 2021
MongoDB Community Kubernetes Operator
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:53 reviews, 11 commits, 24 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ciprian primarily focused on enhancing the Kubernetes operator for MongoDB. Their contributions included implementing resource cleanup mechanisms, specifically setting owner references for secrets and services to ensure proper lifecycle management. They also added functionality to expose connection strings, enabling easier access to deployments. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating the Cert-Manager and updating the controller runtime, indicating involvement in infrastructure and deployment aspects.
kubernetes-communityoperatormongodb-databasekuberneteskubernetes-operator
tibulca/mongodb-operator-ui
Oct 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:45 commits, 43 pushes in 3 months
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