Radu Matei
Chief Product Architect at Akamai Technologies
Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
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Top SchoolRadu Matei is a software leader and founder with a decade of hands-on experience building cloud-native, distributed systems and advancing WebAssembly-powered serverless platforms. As founder and CTO of Fermyon (acquired by Akamai) and now Chief Product Architect at Akamai, he blends product vision with low-level engineering, particularly around WebAssembly runtimes and cloud developer tooling. He’s an active open-source contributor and creator of the Spin framework, having implemented core HTTP and Redis engines and integrated Wasmtime/TinyGo workstreams. Earlier roles at Microsoft and contributions to projects like Brigade reflect a strong background in cloud-native compute, DevOps, and real-time systems. Known for shipping pragmatic, production-ready primitives, he frequently bridges research and product delivery while documenting evolving interests on his technical blog.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Romanian, English, German, Dutch
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Github Skills (36)
kubernetes10
tinygo10
middleware10
spin10
realtime10
redis10
http10
hard-real-time10
websocket10
signalr10
cicd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
dotnet-core10
wasmtime10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
radu-matei/websocket-manager
Dec 2016 - Nov 2019
Real-Time library for ASP .NET Core
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:169 commits, 35 PRs, 85 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Radu primarily developed the core functionality of the WebSocket manager library. They implemented essential classes such as `WebSocketManager`, `WebSocketMessageHandler`, and `WebSocketManagerMiddleware` to handle WebSocket connections, message processing, and middleware integration within an ASP .NET Core environment. Further contributions include the addition of extension methods and helper classes, such as `Utils`, to improve dependency injection and overall functionality. They also added a sample project to test the implemented functionality.
dotnetwebsocketsmiddlewaredotnet-corereal-time
spinframework/spin
Nov 2021 - Jan 2023
Spin is the open source developer tool for building and running serverless applications powered by WebAssembly.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 482 reviews, 263 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Radu's primary contribution focused on building core functionalities for the Spin framework, specifically centered around the HTTP and Redis trigger and engine components. They implemented the initial HTTP and Redis engines, adding the necessary trigger, and executor traits. Additionally, the user revamped the HTTP executor with wildcard route matching and environmental variables. Their work includes significant interaction with the Wasmtime and TinyGo SDKs.
serverless-applicationswebassemblyspinserverless
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