Dan Dinu
Chief Technology Officer at SOLO
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolDan Dinu is a seasoned engineering leader and CTO based in Bucharest with two decades of experience scaling product-focused engineering organizations from startup chaos to operational excellence. He has led distributed teams at Microsoft, Omio, Grafana Labs, Bolt and now Solo, specializing in aligning technical vision with business outcomes and building strong leadership layers. Known for a "make others great" leadership philosophy, he excels at hiring, mentoring senior engineers, and creating environments where technical leaders can thrive. His background spans large-scale distributed systems, high-availability cloud services, and launching new business lines including AI adoption in logistics and cloud logging at Grafana. Beyond corporate roles, he co-founded a mobile app studio and advised a healthcare startup, showing a practical founder’s mindset and hands-on operational experience. At Solo he’s tackling freelancer-first product challenges—removing tax and admin friction so independent professionals can focus on their craft.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Computer Science, Economics, Bachelors, Computer Science, Economics at Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest - Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Computer ScienceNational College of Computer Science " Tudor Vianu", BucharestMasters, IT Security, Masters, IT Security at IT&C Security Master - Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest
English, Romanian
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Github Skills (80)
grafana10
async-await10
monitoring10
prometheus10
asynchronous10
logging10
push-notifications9
obsolete9
react-native-app9
auth9
firebase9
jsp9
react-hooks9
crashlytics9
storage9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
grafana/github-escalations-issues-exporter
Jun 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:1 release, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
petrhajekomio/fi-java-service-commons
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
FI Commons for Java Microservices
Contributions:10 comments in 1 day
javacommonsmicroservices
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