Irina Colgiu
YouTube Data SRE Manager
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolIrina Colgiu is a seasoned software engineering leader with 13 years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, currently managing YouTube Data Site Reliability Engineering at Google from Zurich. Her background spans bioinformatics and genomics tooling to NLP and information retrieval, reflecting a rare blend of data-intensive research systems and production SRE practice. At Google she progressed from software developer roles in Gmail and Calendar to senior SRE and manager positions, consistently focusing on reliability, large-scale data processing, and searchability of complex datasets. Early career work at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and EBI gave her deep experience designing REST APIs, archival systems, and pipeline orchestration for genomic data—skills she now applies to petabyte-scale product infrastructure. Colleagues describe her as a hands-on manager who mentors engineers while driving pragmatic, production-first solutions.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Bioinformatics, MSc, Bioinformatics at University of Applied Sciences Upper AustriaDiploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
english, advanced, german, intermediary, french, beginner
Github Skills (15)
bam10
metadata9
sequencing8
next-generation-sequencing8
htslib7
genomics7
bioinformatics7
mongodb6
pymongo5
python5
odm4
orm3
mapper3
api2
caller1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wtsi-hgi/bam2cram-check
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:60 commits, 48 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
wtsi-hgi/metadata-check
Dec 2014 - Nov 2016
Tests to perform on the iRODS metadata for a BAM file, versus the information in the file header
Contributions:1137 commits, 1 PR, 382 pushes in 2 years
headerfile-headerbammetadataversus
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