Mihai Tabara
Engineering Manager, Backstage at Spotify
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMihai Tabara is an engineering manager and backend-focused leader with 13 years of experience automating CI/CD and release engineering for large-scale products. Currently managing Backstage engineering at Spotify, he previously led distributed release and automation teams at Mozilla, where his work on Firefox release pipelines and Kubernetes/GCP optimizations cut end-to-end release time by roughly 40%. Hands-on across DevOps, Taskcluster/taskgraph, and build automation, Mihai has contributed significantly to high-profile open-source projects like Firefox for Android and application-services, improving task graphs, signing, and artifact delivery. He blends people leadership with deep operational expertise—comfortable running on-call roles and rebuilding pipelines—and has a track record of turning release complexity into repeatable, measurable processes. Based in London with an MSc in Internet Systems Engineering, he brings a pragmatic engineer’s curiosity to developer tooling and release resiliency.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English, French, Romanian
Github Skills (36)
docker10
python10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
firefox10
android10
build-automation10
infrastructure-as-code10
automations10
devops10
task-list10
gradle9
gradlew9
android-developers8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/application-services
May 2019 - Sep 2020
Firefox Application Services
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 25 commits, 42 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Mihai focused on automating and improving the infrastructure related to the Firefox Application Services project. Their contributions include changes to the Taskcluster configuration, scripts, and Dockerfiles, specifically related to build processes, toolchain setup, and release automation. They also worked on migrating to taskgraph and adding resource monitoring, demonstrating a focus on improving CI/CD pipelines and release management.
firefoxfxasyncpush
mozilla-mobile/android-components
Sep 2018 - Jun 2020
⚠️ This project moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained at: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 96 commits, 31 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Mihai primarily contributed to the automation and release processes within the repository. Their commits include modifications to Taskcluster decision tasks, focusing on build, signing, and beetmover integrations. They addressed issues related to versioning, artifact handling, and dependencies in the CI/CD pipeline, improving the automation around nightly and release builds. The user also modified the build config and added artifact renaming scripts.
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