Summary
Raul-mircea Crivineanu is a seasoned backend engineer and engineering leader based in Bucharest with over a decade of experience designing and operating high-traffic, scalable systems in Go. He has held Staff Engineer and Engineering Manager roles at Vivino and now contributes to core infrastructure at MinIO, blending hands-on development with team leadership and cross-functional alignment. His technical strengths span Golang, distributed systems, Kafka, Elasticsearch, MySQL, observability, and performance optimization, with practical experience in incident management and system reliability. He co-founded a software and cybersecurity consultancy, giving him uncommon end-to-end exposure from low-level engineering to product delivery and security practices. Comfortable working remote in B2B EU contexts, he excels at turning complex system design into production-grade implementations and aligning engineering efforts with strategic goals. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic architect who still writes elegant, efficient code while mentoring teams through scaling challenges.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
"Cantemir-Voda" National College
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Coventry University
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Bucharest
Romanian, English, Spanish