Mihai Târnovan
Engineering Team Lead at Steady
Sibiu, Romania
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Top SchoolMihai Târnovan is an engineering team lead and seasoned software engineer based in Sibiu, Romania, with 11 years of professional experience and deep backend expertise. He brings entrepreneurial instincts from multiple co-founder roles and a long history with Ruby (8+ years) while leading teams that now favor Elixir (5+ years) for scalable web systems. Mihai has repeatedly stepped into leadership at Steady and other remote-first organizations, combining hands-on development with people management and delivery ownership. His background in both startups and consulting gives him a pragmatic approach to architecture and a knack for shipping maintainable systems. Notably, he pairs formal computer science training from Cluj-Napoca with a multi-decade track record of building products and engineering teams across the full stack.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics - Physics (German Curriculum), Mathematics - Physics (German Curriculum) at Brukenthal Highschool, SibiuB.D., Computer Science (English Curriculum), B.D., Computer Science (English Curriculum) at Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca
English, German, Romanian
Stackoverflow
662reputation
54kreached
8answers
0questions
Github Skills (200)
piping10
heroku10
elixir10
adapter10
dokku10
buildpack10
bamboo10
html-parser9
scalable9
html9
ruby9
mvc9
paas9
pipedrive9
lifecycle9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
steady-media/pipedrive
Feb 2019 - Sep 2020
Elixir client for Pipedrive's REST API
Contributions:3 reviews, 30 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 7 months
api-clientapielixirelixir-clientpipedrive
mtarnovan/validators_ro
Sep 2016 - Jan 2024
Validators for Romanian CIF, CNP and IBAN in Elixir
Contributions:6 PRs, 15 pushes, 7 branches in 7 years 5 months
biccifcnpcuielixir
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