Summary
Ioana Chiorean is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 11 years of experience blending community leadership, QA discipline, and engineering management across open-source and product-driven organizations. She has led and scaled engineering teams at CodeSandbox and now guides technical strategy and execution at the Interledger Foundation while continuing long-standing community stewardship at Mozilla. Her background spans hands-on QA and automation, project management, and community program design—helping teams ship reliable software and grow contributor ecosystems. Ioana is a seasoned DevRel speaker and mentor who builds developer programs, curates speaking pipelines, and represents projects at conferences. Notably, she contributed to a digital transformation book and has deep experience creating pathways that turn volunteers into sustained contributors. She combines operational rigor with a talent for growing communities and developing people across technical and outreach disciplines.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at Technical University of Cluj Napoca
Mathematics and Informatics, Mathematics and Informatics at Technical Highschool of Aiud (Colegiul Tehnic Aiud)
English, French, Spanish, Italian