Dan Vatca
Managing Partner - CTO at S.C. Syneto S.R.L.
Timiș, Romania
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Top SchoolDan Vatca is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with over a decade of hands-on experience building embedded and web-facing systems from the Linux kernel up to product firmware. As Managing Partner and CTO at Syneto, he leads R&D, shapes technical strategy, and manages engineering teams while maintaining deep expertise in unix systems, networking, and performance tuning. His background includes developing custom Linux distributions, kernel modules, bootloaders and remote upgrade systems for constrained hardware, reflecting a pragmatic approach to low-level engineering and productization. Comfortable coding in C/C++, Java, PHP, Perl and shell, he blends agile software practices with systems-level thinking to deliver reliable, remotely manageable appliances. Based in Timișoara, Romania, he pairs entrepreneurial leadership with a continuous-learning mindset—an engineer who still digs into firmware and network stacks to solve thorny problems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Liceul de Informatica "Grigore Moisil" TimisoaraBachelor of Science, Electronics and Telecommunications, Bachelor of Science, Electronics and Telecommunications at Universitatea „Politehnica” din Timișoara
Romanian, Italian, English, French
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Github Skills (46)
unix9
operating-system9
latency8
metrics-server8
redis-client8
cpu-monitoring8
linux8
kernel8
prometheus-exporter8
collectd8
snmp8
daemon8
amqp-client8
consolidation7
statistics7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SynetoNet/solaris-utils
Nov 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 5 months
SynetoStorageOS/illumos-omnios
Apr 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
consolidation
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