Sever Băneșiu
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSever Băneșiu is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building production-grade infrastructure and payment systems, now working on pre-training and data at OpenAI in San Francisco. He has held senior and staff roles at Cash App/Block and Uber, driving real-time infrastructure, storage, workflows, and open-source initiatives across high-throughput systems. A pragmatic backend and QA contributor, he has hands-on experience with RPC frameworks like the well-regarded connect-go project, adding nuanced test capabilities and robustness checks around payload handling and routing. Known for bridging deep technical implementation with operational reliability, Sever combines systems-level thinking with a developer-first approach to testing and tooling. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Babeș-Bolyai University and brings a consistent track record of shipping resilient, scalable services in demanding production environments.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University
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Github Skills (7)
rpc10
go10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
testing10
php6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
connectrpc/connect-go
Aug 2021 - Aug 2021
The Go implementation of Connect: Protobuf RPC that works.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 6 PRs in 10 days
Contributions summary:Sever contributed to the Go implementation of Connect, a Protobuf RPC framework. Their work included adding a variable-length field to ping requests and responses for testing purposes. The commits also included testing handler functionalities, specifically related to ReadMaxBytes limits for different content types like Twirp JSON and Protobuf, as well as gRPC. Additional commits introduced more assertion tests and tested for bad routes within the system.
golangrpcinteroperableprotobufgrpc
severb/slang
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
Contributions:264 commits in 10 months
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