Summary
Matei-Alexandru Gardus is a software engineer based in San Diego with over a decade of hands-on experience and more than two years of professional work across cloud-native infrastructure, DevOps, and systems engineering. Currently at Sigma Computing, he has built cross-cloud tooling and Kubernetes job management systems, and as an intern managed infrastructure across GCP, AWS and Azure in 10+ regions. He’s led student engineering efforts at UCSD—mentoring a Supercomputing competition team to podium placement and maintaining open-source internal tooling for large student organizations. His background spans low-level systems optimization (including measurable runtime improvements for genomics pipelines) to full-stack product work using Go, React, TypeScript, Terraform, and Ansible. Colleagues know him for blending operational reliability with developer-facing tools and for enjoying public speaking and workshops that translate complex systems into practical learning.
11 years of coding experience