Monica Sarbu is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 12 years of experience building high-impact infrastructure products and scaling distributed teams from individual contributor to manager-of-managers. She co-founded the open-source Packetbeat project (part of the Beats family) which was acquired by Elastic and has since contributed to a codebase with over 300M downloads used widely for monitoring and security. As Founder and CEO of Xata.io and a prolific early-stage investor, she blends hands-on backend experience in C, Python and Go with product and go-to-market instincts. Known for servant leadership, she has grown teams of 40+ engineers and incubated solution teams that helped drive Elastic to IPO. Based in Berlin, she also co-leads nonprofit mentorship efforts to increase diversity in tech, reflecting a commitment to community-building beyond product metrics.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Stanford dy/dx, Stanford dy/dx at Stanford University Graduate School of Business
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
"Alexandru Ioan Cuza" Theoretical High School Bucharest
:tropical_fish: Beats - Lightweight shippers for Elasticsearch & Logstash
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:952 commits, 635 PRs, 389 pushes in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Monica contributed to the development of the HTTP and MySQL protocol parsers, adding functionality to extract and categorize data from HTTP requests and MySQL queries. They added parsing logic to identify HTTP methods, request URIs, and HTTP versions. Additionally, this user modified the code to extract and store the method of MySQL queries, improving the analytical capabilities of the system. Further improvements include adding the source country for HTTP messages and implementing the ability to drop HTTP parameters based on defined criteria.
Contributions:2 releases, 4 commits, 3 pushes in 8 days
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