Octav Zaharia
Software Engineer at Cognizant
Iași, Romania
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Top SchoolOctav Zaharia is a backend-focused software engineer and technical leader with over two decades of programming experience and nine years in senior roles building distributed systems. He combines hands-on expertise in Scala, Java, Kotlin and .NET with cloud-native practices (GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform) to design resilient, event-driven architectures using Kafka, Postgres and ZIO. Octav has led teams and mentored newcomers as a trainer while shipping production integrations for financial and observability platforms, and he frequently bridges architecture and implementation as a hands-on architect. He has a track record of introducing Scala into legacy Java stacks, building initial cloud infrastructure for startups, and improving data flows and GDPR-compliant warehouses. Based in Iași, Romania, he is open to part-time, full-time or project roles and brings a practical blend of mentoring, training, and production-facing problem solving. An unusual strength is his parallel focus on developer enablement—automating deployments and teaching functional programming to accelerate team velocity.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
No degree, Mathematics/Computer science, No degree, Mathematics/Computer science at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
Italian, French, Romanian, English
Stackoverflow
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1kreached
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Github Skills (200)
concurrent-programming10
continuation10
effects10
metals10
kitty10
concurrency10
todoist10
async10
zio10
coc-nvim10
opengl10
concurrent10
raii10
scala10
composable10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
octavz/idea
Oct 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:258 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
octavz/dotfiles
Dec 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
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