Paul Cioanca
Engineer at forkbomb.tech
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Top SchoolPaul Cioanca is an experienced infrastructure and software engineer with eight years of professional experience and a track record of leading cloud migrations, reliability engineering, and large-scale system architecture. Based in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, he has led infra teams at Supabase and built multimillion-dollar, high-traffic platforms as Director of Infrastructure at Connatix, while founding forkbomb.tech to help teams modernize legacy systems and accelerate releases. He blends hands-on database and DevOps expertise—contributing to the popular open-source Supabase project with PostgreSQL automation, replication tooling, and cloud-provider-aware infrastructure changes—with strategic initiatives such as graceful degradation, observability standardization, and self-service IaC. Known for turning complex operational challenges into repeatable processes, he has reduced provisioning times from weeks to minutes and driven measurable reliability and cost improvements. Paul pairs technical leadership with mentorship and consulting, making him adept at both day-to-day engineering and organizational transformation.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Infoel Technical CollegeComputer Science, Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University
Romanian, English
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Github Skills (18)
postgresql10
webhooks10
bash10
database-administration10
automation10
script10
automations10
devops10
cloud-infrastructure9
databases9
ansible9
sql9
ansible-galaxy9
database9
system-administration9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
supabase/postgres
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Unmodified Postgres with some useful plugins
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Database Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Database EngineerContributions:354 reviews, 72 commits, 378 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the automation and improvement of the PostgreSQL database infrastructure. They implemented scripts for database upgrades, including the creation of migration tools, data disk mounting, and service restarts. Additionally, the user modified existing scripts related to managing the database, such as setting and checking read-only mode, further showcasing their focus on database administration and automation.
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supabase/supabase
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
The open source Firebase alternative. Supabase gives you a dedicated Postgres database to build your web, mobile, and AI applications.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 reviews, 2 commits, 39 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributes to the Supabase project by modifying database-related functionalities. They have been involved in altering the database menu options and conditional availability of webhooks based on the presence of specific extensions. Their work includes adding a replication status report SQL snippet and modifying the architecture based on cloud providers. They also made changes related to cloud providers, database triggers and infrastructure.
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