Octavian Geagla
Founding Engineer at Fondant
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolOctavian Geagla is a founding engineer with 13 years of software engineering experience, currently building at Fondant in the United States. He brings deep back-end expertise demonstrated by significant contributions to Metabase, where he implemented MongoDB integration, connection/authentication handling, migration tooling, and refactors with comprehensive tests. Trained in physics, mathematics, and nuclear engineering at UVA and NC State, he combines strong analytical rigor with practical systems design. Octavian is comfortable working on data-focused infrastructure and migration paths that make analytics tools more robust and extensible. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who prefers shipping well-tested, maintainable solutions over flashy one-offs. He often surfaces subtle reliability and testing gaps early, turning them into durable improvements.
13 years of coding experience
MNE, Nuclear Engineering, MNE, Nuclear Engineering at North Carolina State UniversityPhysics, Mathematics, Physics, Mathematics at University of Virginia
Github Skills (12)
clojure10
databases10
mongodb10
back-end-development10
clojure-cli10
mongodb-database10
database10
testing10
data-analysis9
analytics8
sql8
business-intelligence7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
metabase/metabase
Jun 2019 - Sep 2019
The easy-to-use open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics tool that lets everyone work with data :bar_chart:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 12 PRs, 91 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Octavian primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the Metabase project, focusing on integrating MongoDB as a data source. Their work included implementing connection strings, authentication, and testing various MongoDB connection options. Furthermore, they refactored existing code and added tests for humanization, along with refactoring and fixing bugs. The user also worked on dump to H2 command, for data migration, including testing and test fixes.
business-intelligenceembedded-analyticsanalyticsbusinessintelligencedashboard
ogeagla/sclaav
Nov 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:14 PRs, 59 pushes, 19 branches in 11 months
audio-visualscalavisual-libraryaudio
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