Vlad Merticariu is an independent contractor and seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building high-availability, data-intensive distributed systems from bare metal clusters to cloud deployments. He specializes in scalable storage engines, write-heavy time-series stores, and real-time event processing pipelines that handle millions of events per second while maintaining low-latency reads. Vlad has hands-on experience managing hundreds of servers, designing multi-tenant authentication/authorization, and creating tooling to automate failure mitigation and cluster management. His background includes shipping enterprise database features and federated geospatial platforms used by major research and government institutions, revealing a talent for turning complex distributed requirements into production-ready systems. Based in Iași, Romania, he blends low-level performance engineering with pragmatic product-facing services such as GraphQL and secure JWT/Cognito integrations.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Jacobs University Bremen
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Vlad Merticariu - Independent Contractor at True Distributed