Daniel Toader
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Toader is an engineering manager and backend specialist with 11 years of experience building high-performance, cloud-native systems and leading distributed teams from Bucharest. He has hands-on expertise in Go, PHP, Java, and Python, and has driven measurable product impact—most recently improving recommendation conversion and scaling services to tens of thousands of RPS at eMAG. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture and people leadership, he brings a pedagogy-minded approach proven by extensive internal training programs and a history of mentoring engineers into focused Go and PHP tracks. Daniel started coding at 16 and combines that long-running curiosity with formal business training (MBA) to align technical roadmaps with product and commercial outcomes. Now leading Canonical’s Livepatch team, he focuses on reliability and security at scale, bringing practical experience shipping AI/ML-backed features into production. An organized, empathy-driven leader, he emphasizes clarity, shared accountability and measurable delivery in high-velocity environments.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
High School Degree, Mathematics-Informatics, 9.13, High School Degree, Mathematics-Informatics, 9.13 at National College I.L. CaragialeMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Fast Track Management Program, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Fast Track Management Program at BISM - former MSM RomaniaAcademia de Studii Economice Bucuresti
Romanian, English
Github Skills (51)
capistrano10
php10
symfony10
stretch9
annotations9
caching9
symfony-bundle9
microsoft-teams8
kafka-cluster8
kafka8
vagrantfile8
scala8
apriori8
kafka-connect7
ksqldb7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
danieltoader/solr-tools
Apr 2019 - Oct 2022
Command line tools for Solr
Contributions:1 PR, 6 pushes in 3 years 7 months
command-line-toolssolr
danieltoader/capistrano-teams
Jul 2020 - Oct 2021
Microsoft Teams integration for Capistrano 3.x
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 3 months
microsoft-teamspowershellcapistrano3capistrano-plugincapistrano-microsoft-teams
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