Tony Ghita
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Ghita is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building performant, production-grade APIs and distributed systems for companies like Netflix and Twitch. He specializes in GraphQL and backend infrastructure, having designed first-party GraphQL APIs and edge reliability/SLA practices at Twitch and contributing key fixes and features to notable open-source projects such as graph-gophers/graphql-go and dataloader. Tony has a strong track record of optimizing high-throughput services—at Boomtrain he built a personalization pipeline handling 400K ops/s with sub-10ms p90 latency while cutting AWS costs—and he pairs that systems expertise with pragmatic product sensibilities. Comfortable across polyglot stacks and operational ownership, he brings deep debugging, refactoring and testing discipline, and an inclination to improve developer ergonomics in the libraries he touches.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Engineering (Computer Science), Bachelor of Science, Engineering (Computer Science) at University of MichiganUniversity of Michigan-Dearborn
Romanian, English
Stackoverflow
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2answers
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Github Skills (23)
batching10
testing10
wpgraphql10
go10
wordpress-graphql10
golang10
graphql10
batch10
dataloader10
caching9
disk-cache9
web-cache9
object-cache9
memory-cache9
api-design8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
graph-gophers/dataloader
Dec 2016 - Sep 2022
Implementation of Facebook's DataLoader in Golang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 30 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tony contributed to the core logic of the `dataloader` library. Their work involved refactoring and configuration options, including adding configurable batch sizes, input queue sizes, and wait times. Further, the user addressed potential issues in the batching function to improve the overall robustness and reliability of the library. They also implemented the `LoadMany` functionality.
golangfacebook-dataloadergofacebookcache
graph-gophers/graphql-go
May 2017 - Aug 2022
GraphQL server with a focus on ease of use
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 56 commits, 37 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `graphql-go` project, focusing on improving the core functionality. Their work included fixing critical bugs related to resolver pointer handling and ID scalar implementation. Further contributions involved refactoring code for modularity and adding test cases to ensure proper functionality.
golanggraphql-servernodejsgraphqlease-of-use
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