Tudor Plugaru
Senior Software Engineer II at Gorgias
Chișinău, Moldova
Summary
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Top SchoolTudor Plugaru is a Senior Software Engineer II with 11 years of experience specializing in backend systems, Python, and event-driven architectures. He has designed and productionized large-scale streaming platforms—leading migrations from Google Pub/Sub to Kafka and from Apache Beam to Flink—and platformized Debezium with upstream contributions for Google Cloud Pub/Sub Lite integration. Tudor combines DDD, event sourcing and outbox patterns to make systems resilient and scalable, and has a track record of measurable impact such as a ~30% reduction in RabbitMQ memory usage, eliminating a 10% endpoint error rate, and 300x p99 response-time improvements. He also writes tooling (a Python AVRO/event library) and drives Flink adoption across teams, showing both hands-on craftsmanship and effective platform advocacy. Based in Chișinău, Moldova, he brings a pragmatic DevOps mindset from roles spanning startups to larger engineering organizations and has experience teaching and coordinating technical teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Systems and Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Systems and Computer Engineering at Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei
English, Russian, Romanian
Stackoverflow
367reputation
15kreached
19answers
8questions
Github Skills (18)
kafka-connect10
debezium10
java10
javas10
event-streaming10
change-data-capture10
apache-kafka10
event-stream10
gcp9
databases9
database9
connectors6
namespaces6
apache-beam6
scopes6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
debezium/debezium
Oct 2021 - Apr 2022
Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://github.com/debezium/dbz/issues.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 13 commits, 10 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Tudor contributed to the debezium project by implementing features related to the Google Cloud Pub/Sub Lite sink connector. Their work included setting project IDs, moving change consumers, and implementing a basic change consumer for Pub/Sub Lite. They also added integration tests and addressed code formatting and import reordering issues. These contributions demonstrate a focus on integrating Debezium with Google Cloud services.
change-data-capturedatabasedatabasesdebeziumkafka-connect
PlugaruT/debezium
Oct 2021 - Dec 2025
Change data capture for a variety of databases. Please log issues at https://issues.redhat.com/browse/DBZ.
Contributions:40 pushes, 12 branches in 4 years 2 months
sqlchange-data-capturedatabasesdata-capturedatabase
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