Decebal Dobrica is a Senior Software Engineer and founder with 11+ years of experience designing and shipping production Rust at scale across event-sourced platforms, fintech monorepos, embedded engines, and hybrid native/wasm backends. He runs Wolven Tech, a Rust-only advisory practice, and has delivered over 1M lines of production Rust while tuning release profiles and workspace lints to achieve dramatic memory and binary-size reductions. Decebal blends deep systems knowledge (Tokio, Axum, Tonic, SQLx, Tauri, Leptos) with product-minded event sourcing (CQRS, durable projections, feature-flagged editions) and has driven measurable platform improvements and cost savings in multiple leadership roles. He embeds GenAI into engineering workflows to triple developer productivity without degrading review quality and publishes production tooling like monorepo-meta and the rust-v1 template. Comfortable as a fractional CTO, architect, or hands-on engineer, he’s delivered technical due diligence, platform sprints, and resilient low-footprint backends for fintech, SaaS, and Web3 clients from London and remotely. An early polyglot contributor, he also has roots in PHP/GraphQL testing and practical blockchain proofs-of-concept across Ethereum and Sui.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Mathematics and Computer Science at Military Highschool, Breaza
Bachelor, IT, Maths, Bachelor, IT, Maths at Military Technical Academy
PHP implementation of the GraphQL specification based on the reference implementation in JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Decebal primarily contributed to the testing and refinement of the GraphQL-PHP implementation. Their commits involved adding and modifying test cases, specifically focusing on fragment merging and aliasing within GraphQL queries. They also addressed and fixed a typo within existing test cases. Additionally, the commits suggest an understanding of GraphQL query parsing and execution logic as well as php based development.
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.