Ștefan Muraru is a cloud-native Team Lead and senior engineer with 10 years of experience building and operating Kubernetes-driven platforms, scalable microservices in Node.js and Go, and cloud infrastructure on AWS and GCP. He currently leads a seven-engineer integrations team at CloudQuery, shipping source integrations, destination plugins, SDKs, a CLI and an in-house K8s operator that automates sync lifecycle and marketplace validations with partners like Wiz and Tenable. Previously he cut cloud costs by over 60% and implemented zero-trust service meshes and high-throughput APIs at Kubeshop, and delivered production-grade operators and multi-region infrastructure at Bitdefender. An active open-source contributor to the CloudQuery project, he focuses on destination plugin reliability, connection testing and database type fixes (DuckDB, MSSQL, ClickHouse, Neo4j). He holds a master’s in Distributed Systems and Web Technologies and combines hands-on engineering with product-led delivery and community building. Outside work he balances software craftsmanship with a passion for travel and global perspectives.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Distributed Systems and Web Technologies, Master's degree, Distributed Systems and Web Technologies at Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Universitatea Tehnică „Gheorghe Asachi” din Iași
Contributions:44 reviews, 30 PRs, 31 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ștefan primarily contributed to enhancing the CloudQuery platform, focusing on destination plugin improvements and connection testing. They removed logging of error events in multiple destination plugins and fixed an issue with DuckDB connections. The user also addressed MSSQL type mapping issues by replacing string type mapping with nvarchar(max) and fixed ClickHouse Date issues. Further contributions included adding connection tests to the Neo4j destination plugin and passthrough of AWS-prefixed environment variables.
Contributions:154 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 4 months
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