Summary
Dan Samargiu is a versatile software engineer with 13 years of experience building high-performance C/C++ systems and full-stack web services, currently at Google after prior senior and principal engineering roles across startups and enterprises. He combines deep expertise in concurrency, secure coding, and unit testing with practical cloud-native skills (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes) and a polyglot toolset spanning Python, Go, C#, TypeScript, and modern frontend frameworks. Having worked on large-scale products at Google and led engineering at VidIQ and Creator Now, he bridges low-level systems thinking with product-focused web and data work using Postgres, BigQuery, MongoDB and CI-backed workflows. He also experiments with AI and LLM integrations and publishes creator-focused content on YouTube, reflecting an ability to communicate technical ideas to broader audiences. Trained at the University of Waterloo, Dan is known for software craftsmanship and pragmatic architecture choices that keep performance, security, and developer productivity balanced.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Romanian, English