Vlad Hanciuta
Software Engineer at Arista Networks
Ireland
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolVlad Hanciuta is a seasoned software engineer based in Ireland with over 10 years of experience building network and systems software across Arista, Google, and Cisco. He blends deep expertise in routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, ISIS, EIGRP), MPLS/VPN, multicast and IP fast reroute with hands-on engineering in C, C++, Python, Rust and functional languages like Haskell. Vlad’s career began in ISP operations and network administration, giving him rare end-to-end insight from kernel and device-level tweaks to high-level protocol implementations. He has contributed to notable open-source work such as adding Kafka 0.11 RecordBatch support and Castagnoli CRC handling in the popular Sarama Go client. Known for solving complex interoperability and performance problems, he thrives on bridging legacy network infrastructure with modern, efficient software. His background suggests a practical, systems-first approach coupled with curiosity for new languages and low-level optimizations.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BEng, Computer Engineering, BEng, Computer Engineering at Universitatea „Aurel Vlaicu” din Arad
Github Skills (7)
kafka10
apache-kafka10
go10
kafka-node10
kafkajs10
data-structure9
data-structures9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
IBM/sarama
Oct 2017 - Aug 2018
Sarama is a Go library for Apache Kafka.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily contributed to the `sarama` library, which is a Go library for Apache Kafka. Their work focused on implementing support for Kafka 0.11 features, including the new Record format and varint encoding for fields like record length. They added the ability to handle CRC32 checksums using the Castagnoli polynomial, and they created new data structures to support the RecordBatch format. This improved the library's compatibility with newer Kafka versions and extended its functionality.
golangsaramaapache-kafkago-libraryapache
aristanetworks/goarista
May 2016 - Jan 2020
Fairly general building blocks used in Arista Go code and open-sourced for the benefit of all.
Contributions:20 commits in 3 years 9 months
golangbenefitaristabuilding-blocks
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