Radu Gheorghe
Software Engineer at Vespa.ai
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolRadu Gheorghe is a search engineer with 14 years of hands-on experience building and improving search and log-processing systems, currently contributing to Vespa.ai after a long tenure at Sematext. He brings deep expertise in Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Solr and rsyslog, having implemented features, tests and documentation that improve observability and data pipelines. Based in Bucharest, he combines backend development and technical writing—clarifying complex modules like omelasticsearch and adding HTTPS support—so his contributions help both code quality and user experience. His background in psychology gives him an edge in understanding user needs and communication, which complements his technical focus on reliable, scalable search infrastructure.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at Universitatea din București
English, French
Stackoverflow
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elasticsearch
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Github Skills (26)
sphinx10
amazon-elasticsearch10
http10
c1110
rsyslog10
c1710
elasticsearchquery10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
logging10
documentation10
elasticsearch-api10
syslog10
json9
configuration-management9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
rsyslog/rsyslog-doc
Mar 2014 - Jun 2017
documentation for the rsyslog project
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:38 commits, 34 PRs, 33 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Radu primarily contributed to the documentation of the rsyslog project. Their commits focused on adding, modifying, and clarifying documentation for various modules, including omelasticsearch, ompgsql, and omfwd. These documentation updates included explanations of configuration parameters, usage examples, and notes about specific functionalities and best practices. The contributions aimed to improve the clarity and usability of the documentation for users of the rsyslog software.
rsyslogloggingsphinx
rsyslog/rsyslog
Jan 2013 - Jul 2016
a Rocket-fast SYStem for LOG processing
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 5 PRs, 55 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Radu primarily contributed to the rsyslog project by adding features and improving existing modules. They added functionality to the property replacer, enabling the use of `$!all-json` and `$!<name>` for CEE-enhanced syslog messages. The user also implemented the initial documentation and HTTPS option for the omelasticsearch module. Furthermore, the user enhanced the codebase by adding a new test for imfile ReadMode=2, and a new external plugin for sending metrics.
syslogloggingrocketelasticsearchkafka
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