Dumitru Savva
Lead Engineer at WorldQuant
Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolDumitru Savva is a Lead Engineer based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland with 12 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and distributed ledgers. He progressed from freelance and early PHP roles to senior engineering posts at Soramitsu and Actian, then to Scalable Solutions and WorldQuant where he now leads engineering efforts. His open-source contributions include refactoring and testing work on the Hyperledger Iroha project, demonstrating attention to code quality and blockchain-oriented architectures. Dumitru combines C++ and backend expertise with a strong academic background in computer science, including studies at KAIST and a master's in software engineering. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem solver who improves long-lived codebases rather than chasing trends. He also brings unexpected breadth from entrepreneurial and creative pursuits—founding a flight-price platform and serving as a club vice president—that inform his collaborative leadership style.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Olympic Student in Informatics Computer Programming, Olympic Student in Informatics Computer Programming at OrizontMaster's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Constructor GroupBS Comupter Science, BS Comupter Science at Innopolis UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Russian, Romanian, English, Turkish
Github Skills (5)
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
testing10
blockchain8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-iroha/iroha-dco
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
Iroha - A simple, decentralized ledger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:209 commits, 124 PRs, 423 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Dumitru's commits focused on refactoring the codebase by removing redundant elements, specifically removing `setTxCounter` and `setCreatorAccountId` from the `Transaction` class and removing unused imports. They also contributed to the testing framework and improved code style. They implemented functionalities related to amount interfaces and incorporated changes in several test files, including the YAC test and block query test.
ssidltconsensusp2piroha
x3medima17/twitter
Jun 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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