Summary
Vlad Barosan is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building and operating cloud-native distributed systems, currently focused on product security at Snowflake. He previously led a ~20‑engineer team at Google Cloud, scaling Certificate Authority Service to handle over 5 billion certificates and advising on PKI, workload identity, Zero Trust, and post‑quantum readiness. Before that he contributed to global Azure networking services at Microsoft, bringing deep operational experience across high‑availability, security-sensitive infrastructure. Based in Kirkland, WA, he combines hands‑on engineering with systems thinking and a long-standing passion for making cloud platforms more robust, reliable, and accessible—an interest that traces back to his bachelor’s thesis.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Information Technology Project Management, Master of Science (M.S.) Information Technology Project Management at KU Leuven
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English, French, Romanian, Chinese