Victor Mateescu
Senior Engineering Manager at ACV Auctions
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolVictor Mateescu is a seasoned Senior Engineering Manager with 9 years in leadership roles and two decades of hands-on engineering across cloud infrastructure, automation, and DevSecOps. He has led core Kubernetes infrastructure and autoscaling at Shopify and now drives engineering at ACV Auctions, consistently optimizing cloud cost, resilience, and deployment pipelines. Victor combines deep platform expertise (Linux, AWS, GCP, Kubernetes) and automation (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet) with a security-first mindset honed as a Principal DevSecOps Architect at Kijiji. He mentors high-performance teams and has a track record of delivering capacity planning and reliability improvements that materially impacted peak events like Black Friday/Cyber Monday. An active contributor to the popular QMK open-source firmware project, he also brings embedded/IoT firmware experience alongside his cloud-native background—an uncommon cross-domain skill set that helps bridge hardware-software operational gaps. Based in Toronto, he pairs strategic IT planning with pragmatic engineering to build resilient, efficiently scaled platforms.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Academia de Studii Economice Bucuresti
English, French, Italian, Spanish, Romanian
Github Skills (22)
c-language10
qmk-firmware10
firmware10
qmk10
c1110
keymaps10
c1710
keyboard-layout10
keymapping10
sys10
embedded10
cprogramming-language10
atmel9
keyboard9
keyboard-input9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Dec 2018 - Feb 2019
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily contributes to the QMK firmware, focusing on creating and modifying keymaps for various keyboard layouts. Their work involves defining key mappings, layers, and custom keycodes, indicating a strong understanding of keyboard firmware development. The user's contributions also extend to include support for different keyboard models, showcasing a proficiency in adapting to diverse hardware configurations within the QMK ecosystem. Furthermore, the integration of features like tap dance actions and RGB lighting control suggests familiarity with advanced firmware customization.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
OMGVee/100
Apr 2017 - Jan 2025
Contributions:29 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
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