Vlad Ionescu
Founder, CEO at Earthly Technologies
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolVlad Ionescu is a serial founder and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, developer tools, and security products from first principles. As founder and CEO of Earthly Technologies and prior founder of ShiftLeft and Qwiet AI, he has led fundraising, hired world-class remote teams, and shipped products that reimagine CI/CD and DevSecOps for modern containerized workflows. His engineering pedigree includes low-latency infrastructure work at Google’s search and ads teams, mission-critical telco systems for EE, and authoring the RabbitMQ Erlang client with dramatic performance gains. Vlad is an active open-source contributor—his work on BuildKit improved networking, caching and stability for a widely used build toolkit—and created Lever OS, an open-source serverless runtime that runs on Docker. Based in Redwood City, he combines a hacker’s focus on performance and reliability with founder-level product instincts and a proven ability to take ideas to market. An uncommon thread in his career is repeatedly rebuilding core platform primitives (from serverless runtimes to build automation) rather than only layering on top of existing tools.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Founder Alumni of AngelPad, Founder Alumni of AngelPad at AngelPadBachelor’s Degree Computing, Bachelor’s Degree Computing at Imperial College LondonPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
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Github Skills (22)
docker10
buildkite10
dockers10
go10
golang10
buildkit10
concurrency10
javascript9
caching9
networking9
cloud-native8
kubernetes-pods8
dockerfile8
kubernetes8
occi7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
moby/buildkit
Mar 2020 - Feb 2022
concurrent, cache-efficient, and Dockerfile-agnostic builder toolkit
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 15 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily contributed to the `buildkit` project by addressing issues related to networking, caching, and build process stability. They fixed race conditions in CNI namespaces and authorizer, implemented retry mechanisms for temporary network failures, and added configurations to limit parallelism. Additionally, the user made code improvements by renaming variables and adding comments to enhance code clarity and maintainability. These changes indicate a focus on improving the reliability and performance of the build process.
containersdockerfilegolangoci-imagebuildkit
earthly/earthly-demo
Jul 2020 - Jun 2024
Files used for live earthly demos
Contributions:1 PR, 17 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 11 months
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