Ovidiu Popa
Staff Software Engineer at No-Company
Brasov, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolOvidiu Popa is a Staff Software Engineer based in Brașov, Romania, with a decade-long track record designing and delivering enterprise Java systems across transport, logistics, and commodity trading domains. He combines hands-on backend engineering with DevOps sensibilities—helping teams adopt CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code—and has led development and architecture efforts on cloud-native platforms running on Azure and IBM Cloud. A prolific open-source contributor, he has made notable backend contributions to high-profile projects such as Spring Security, Spring Authorization Server (OIDC client registration and JDBC support), and Spinnaker’s clouddriver (Azure SDK migration and caching). He’s comfortable mentoring teams, shaping product-driven solutions from customer feedback, and improving platform performance and maintainability. Notably, he implemented reactive R2DBC persistence for OAuth2 clients and advanced JDBC-based authorization services, reflecting a blend of deep protocol knowledge and practical persistence engineering.
5 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Telecommunications Engineering at Universitatea Transilvania din BrașovJunior Programmer, Mathematics and Computer Science, Junior Programmer, Mathematics and Computer Science at Colegiul National Dr. Ioan Mesota
English, Romanian
Github Skills (27)
application-framework10
spring10
groovy10
azure-vm10
azure-sdk10
r2dbc10
openid-connect10
app-framework10
jdbc10
java10
azure-cli10
security10
javas10
sql10
spring-boot10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
spring-projects/spring-authorization-server
Dec 2020 - Nov 2021
Spring Authorization Server
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ovidiu primarily contributed to the implementation of the Spring Authorization Server, focusing on core features related to OpenID Connect client registration and the JDBC implementation for authorization services. This included creating new classes and methods to support client registration, along with providing JDBC implementations for OAuth2AuthorizationService and OAuth2AuthorizationConsentService. The user also updated the JdbcRegisteredClientRepository to support update functionality and hashed the client secret during save operations.
spring-bootspring-dataauthorizationauthorization-serverspring
spinnaker/clouddriver
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
read and write operations across cloud providers
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 5 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ovidiu focused on refactoring and upgrading the Azure SDK within the clouddriver project. They addressed breaking changes related to the Azure SDK migration, updating dependencies and code to align with the latest versions. Furthermore, they contributed to caching mechanisms for Azure managed images, including adding caching agents and enhancing image lookup controllers to leverage these caches. Additionally, they resolved a bug in the CreateAzureServerGroupWithAzureLoadBalancerAtomicOperation, ensuring proper load balancer configuration and operation.
gcpproviderscloudcloud-providersazure
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