Ioana Chirca
Production Engineer at Facebook
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolIoana Chirca is a Production Engineer with 10 years' experience building and operating reliable, secure systems across major cloud platforms; she currently works at Facebook after prior engineering roles at AWS and internships at Google. She specializes in backend and systems-level work—her notable open-source contributions to Firecracker demonstrate hands-on experience improving microVM block and network device persistence, rate-limiting versioning, and API hygiene for serverless workloads. With a Master's in Computer and Network Security and a background teaching CCNA, she blends practical SRE discipline with security-minded design. Comfortable in languages and environments from Go to systems APIs, she focuses on maintainability and robustness in distributed infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Github Skills (14)
rust10
virtualization10
virtio10
apidoc9
persistence9
api9
version-control9
virtual-machine8
rate-limiting8
device-management8
container8
serverless8
open-source8
blockdevice8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
firecracker-microvm/firecracker
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 44 commits, 46 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Ioana primarily worked on refactoring and modifying the Firecracker microVM API and block device functionality. They removed the `RescanBlockDevice` action from the API and updated documentation to use the existing `PATCH /drives API`. Furthermore, the user implemented persistence and versioning for the rate limiter, as well as the block and net device, which are core components for managing the VM. The contributions indicate focus on improving the robustness and maintainability of the Firecracker project.
containerssecureminimalistrustserverless
ioanachirca/firecracker
Jan 2020 - Aug 2020
Secure and fast microVMs for serverless computing.
Contributions:226 pushes, 59 branches in 6 months
secureserverlessmicrovmscomputingserverless-computing
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