Daniel Ancuta
Backend Engineering Team Lead at LivaNova
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorDaniel Ancuta is a Backend Engineering Team Lead based in London with 15 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, event-driven microservices and migrating legacy monoliths into modern architectures. He is fluent in PHP and Python, has deep hands-on expertise with message-driven systems (RabbitMQ, Celery, SNS), and has led teams through cloud migrations, multi-region deployments, and database transformations. Daniel combines technical leadership—roadmapping, CI/TDD practices, infrastructure-as-code with Terraform/Chef/SaltStack, and Docker—with people management, hiring, and onboarding to grow high-performing teams. His track record includes driving platform-wide migrations (Postgres to Cognito, monolith to microservices), building an event-driven core used across services, and operating high-throughput indexing pipelines into Elasticsearch. He also maintains a personal site with technical articles, signaling an interest in sharing practical engineering insights beyond his day job.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Polish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
dependency-management10
python10
authentication10
rest-api10
lambda-functions10
gunicorn10
python-packaging10
api10
moto10
dependency-manager10
aws-lambda10
package-manager10
aws-appsync10
pytest10
packaging10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
whisller/ecs-tool
Jun 2019 - Aug 2021
ecs-tool tries to eliminate common caveats for your day-to-day work with Elastic Container Service (ECS).
Contributions:136 commits, 38 PRs, 83 pushes in 2 years 2 months
ecsservice-containerelasticdayelastic-container-service
whisller/pytest-serverless
May 2019 - May 2022
Automatically mocks resources from serverless.yml in pytest using moto.
Contributions:5 reviews, 124 commits, 84 PRs in 3 years
pythonmotoserverlessmocksyml
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