Victor Dodon
Software Engineer at Stripe
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolVictor Dodon is a seasoned backend engineer with 14 years of experience building high-performance, production-grade systems and leading small engineering teams. He has deep expertise in Go, C, PHP/Laravel and Linux system internals, and a strong toolset spanning Docker, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, and Postgres/MySQL. Victor has led server-side work for urban mobility at CTO level and scaled C-based TCP servers handling thousands of connections as a team lead, and now contributes his systems expertise at Stripe. An active open-source contributor, he improved MPRIS2 remote-control behavior in the widely used Clementine music player, demonstrating care for user-facing integrations beyond pure backend plumbing. He combines pragmatic infrastructure automation with a focus on delivering real user value, and brings hands-on debugging and low-level systems knowledge (including assembly and kernel work) to solve complex problems. Based in Bucharest, he values collaboration, knowledge sharing and building software that helps people.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
"Politehnica" University of Bucharest
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
music10
linux8
macos8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
clementine-player/Clementine
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
:tangerine: Clementine Music Player
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Victor focused on enhancing the Media Player Remote Interface (MPRIS2) implementation within the Clementine Music Player. Their contributions include adding and modifying notifications for various events like song changes and repeat mode changes. They also addressed a bug related to playlist updates and improved code formatting, highlighting a focus on the player's core functionality and API interactions. The user's work directly affected the player's remote control capabilities.
windowsclementinelinuxc-plus-plustangerine
printesoi/machinery
Apr 2021 - Feb 2025
Machinery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
Contributions:2 PRs, 9 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 10 months
asynchronous-tasksmachineryasynchronousasynchronous-taskmessage-queue
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