Matei-dan Dragu
Senior Software Engineer at Toucanberry Tech
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMatei-dan Dragu is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 13 years building cloud-native distributed systems, data platforms and event-driven pipelines for insurance, reinsurance and fintech. He has deep hands-on expertise across Go and Python, Java/Spring, Kubernetes, Terraform and cloud services (AWS, GCP, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub), and consistently delivers scalable ETL, streaming and observability solutions. He has led engineering teams and founded a consultancy, Stellarator, while serving as first hire and principal engineer to establish core data infrastructure at startups like honu.ai. His recent focus is on reinsurance cloud data platforms, combining protocol buffers, Argo/Argo Events, Airflow, and BigQuery to turn complex legacy flows into performant, observable pipelines. Colleagues rely on him for practical platform SME knowledge (Java/Spring and Go) and for bridging infra-as-code with data engineering needs. Beyond code, he brings a scientific-method mindset from early work at CERN, applying rigorous testing and operational tooling to production systems.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Universitatea Transilvania din Brașov
English, French, Romanian
Github Skills (28)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zhoushineyoung/zookeeper-ui
Sep 2012 - Dec 2013
Contributions:43 commits in 1 year 2 months
aws/containers-roadmap
Mar 2022 - Aug 2023
This is the public roadmap for AWS container services (ECS, ECR, Fargate, and EKS).
Contributions:21 comments in 1 year 4 months
containersecsfargateecreks
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