Ovidiu Tirla
Software Engineer at Google
Poland
Summary
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Top SchoolOvidiu Tirla is a software engineer with six years of experience building backend and cloud-native systems, currently contributing at Google after a stint as a Java engineer at FanDuel. He combines strong Java and systems skills with hands-on DevOps and Kubernetes experience—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile Cilium eBPF project where he improved observability and identity resolution. His background spans performance tooling, protocol-level work in Java/C/C++, and modern AWS infrastructure (Terraform, EKS, Lambda), enabling him to bridge low-latency internals and scalable cloud deployments. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he often focuses on operational visibility and resource indexing that make distributed systems more reliable in production.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai UniversityLiceul de Informatica "Tiberiu Popoviciu"
Github Skills (13)
kubernetes10
observability10
go10
networking10
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
metric10
bpf9
cni9
container8
kubernetes-networking8
security8
cicd8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:190 reviews, 36 PRs, 615 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ovidiu contributed to the Cilium project by adding metrics for monitoring service programming duration, enhancing the observability of the system. They also updated the documentation for the new metric. Furthermore, they made changes to identity resolution and label handling within the endpoint package, which is crucial for network policy enforcement. Their work also involved moving methods from package to package and adding indexers and listeners for various resources which aligns with responsibilities in infrastructure and k8s operations.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
ovidiutirla/cilium
Apr 2024 - Jan 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 240 pushes in 9 months
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