Vicențiu Ciorbaru
Business Owner at TBD
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolVicențiu Ciorbaru is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with 14 years of experience, now based in Bucharest and running his own business. He spent over a decade at MariaDB Foundation rising from contributor to Chief Development Officer and briefly serving as VP of Software Engineering, shaping roadmap and technical direction for a major open-source SQL server. Deeply practical, he has hands-on expertise in database internals and access control—having contributed code to MariaDB server (notably adding a roles_mapping table and extending ACL/SHOW CREATE USER functionality). His background includes performance work at Google Chrome for Android and teaching algorithm design, reflecting a blend of systems-level engineering and mentorship. Vicențiu holds advanced degrees in computer engineering and artificial intelligence and is known for translating complex database features into robust, maintainable code.
14 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Romanian, English
Github Skills (7)
sql10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
schema-design9
data-modeling9
database-security8
performance-tuning8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
MariaDB/server
Oct 2013 - Jan 2023
MariaDB server is a community developed fork of MySQL server. Started by core members of the original MySQL team, MariaDB actively works with outside developers to deliver the most featureful, stable, and sanely licensed open SQL server in the industry.
Role in this project:
Database Engineer / Database Administrator
Database Engineer / Database AdministratorContributions:96 reviews, 1271 commits, 146 PRs in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Vicențiu contributed to the MariaDB server's database structure by adding and initializing a new `roles_mapping` table within the `mysql_system_tables.sql` script. This included creating columns, defining foreign key constraints, and adding code to handle edge cases around the table creation. The user also made modifications in the C++ files related to Access Control Lists (ACL) and made several changes to the codebase, adding the ability to use the SHOW CREATE USER syntax, and extending the functions to include more options.
licensedsql-servermysqlsqlmariadb-server
cvicentiu/Symbolic-and-statistical-learning
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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