Dan Persa
Head Of Engineering at Zalando
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolDan Persa is a seasoned engineering leader with 15 years of hands-on software and management experience, currently Head of Engineering at Zalando in Berlin. He combines deep Java and backend expertise—validated by Sun certifications and contributions to projects like Zalando's Skipper HTTP router—with proven people and delivery leadership from roles at SumUp and Zalando. Comfortable across the stack and with operations, he has implemented dynamic route management and DevOps improvements while guiding teams through large-scale e-commerce and payments platforms. His background spans legacy C/C++ and embedded/mobile Java to modern Spring, REST, and cloud-native patterns, giving him a practical appreciation for evolving architectures. Known for blending technical depth with delivery focus, he often bridges product, platform and infra concerns to ship reliable systems at scale.
15 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Github Skills (14)
http10
user-authentication10
router10
authentication10
go10
api10
reverse-proxy10
apidoc10
routers10
kubernetes-pods9
etcd9
kubernetes9
go-modules8
cloud-computing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
zalando/skipper
Sep 2015 - Jul 2016
An HTTP router and reverse proxy for service composition, including use cases like Kubernetes Ingress
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:66 commits, 11 PRs, 29 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Dan primarily contributed to the backend logic of the `skipper` project, integrating with the Innkeeper API for dynamic route management. They implemented features to read routes from the Innkeeper service and write route definitions to it, including authentication and error handling. They also addressed configuration, added features to support write operations, and improved existing filter implementations, demonstrating proficiency in the project's core functionality.
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