Summary
Dragos Tatulea is a Senior System Software Engineer with 17 years of experience specializing in Linux kernel and systems programming, currently contributing to the mlx5 upstream driver at NVIDIA. He combines deep expertise in networking stacks, device drivers, filesystems and performance optimization with hands-on embedded and cloud experience across containers and Kubernetes. Comfortable in C/C++/Python/Bash and familiar with Go, he has a track record of upstreaming patches (e.g., modem and networking work) and balancing evolutionary maintenance with disruptive redesigns. His background spans telecom protocols (SIP/RTP/MEGACO), RDMA/Multipath TCP and high-throughput traffic statistics, reflecting a pragmatic focus on reliably moving data at scale. Based in Berlin, he pairs patient, thorough problem solving with an inclination for plumbing complex systems end-to-end—from platform bring-up to kernel subsystems.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English, French, German