Willy Lulciuc
Co-Founder & CEO at The Linux Foundation
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolWilly Lulciuc is a seasoned software leader and founder with a decade of experience building data infrastructure, currently serving as Co-Founder & CEO of Oleander in New York. He co-created and continues to steward open standards for data lineage as a TSC member for OpenLineage and Marquez at the Linux Foundation, bringing uncommon cross-cutting expertise in metadata, Airflow integrations, and CI/CD for production-grade pipelines. Previously a founding engineer at Datakin and a senior engineer at Astronomer, he blends hands-on backend and DevOps work—especially around Airflow integrations and release automation—with product and company-level leadership. Willy’s Github track record includes significant contributions to the widely adopted OpenLineage project, where he drove Airflow integration updates, Docker and CI changes, and multiple releases. He pairs startup grit with open-source stewardship, making metadata-first engineering both practical and interoperable.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) (unfinished) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) (unfinished) Computer Science at Temple UniversityComputer Science (transferred), Computer Science (transferred) at North Carolina State University
Romanian, English
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Github Skills (10)
apache-airflow10
release-management10
python10
cicd10
dockers9
docker9
git8
sql7
javas4
java4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OpenLineage/OpenLineage
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
An Open Standard for lineage metadata collection
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 releases, 420 reviews, 114 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Willy's contributions primarily revolved around the integration and maintenance of the OpenLineage project's Airflow integration and related infrastructure. They implemented changes to the Airflow integration, including version updates, and modified build processes. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the CI/CD pipeline, Docker configuration, and release processes. The user also performed several releases.
data-analyticsdata-managementcqllineagemetadata-management
MarquezProject/marquez
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
Collect, aggregate, and visualize a data ecosystem's metadata
Contributions:20 releases, 1420 reviews, 1341 commits in 4 years 7 months
datavisualizedata-catalogdata-dictionarymetadata
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