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Engineering leadership · Platform & infrastructure

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Byte
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Bogdan Marieșan

Engineering leader by day. FunkByteTech by night.
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Director of Engineering, Platform @ Tekmetric.
16+ years building scalable platforms and the teams behind them — from Cluj-Napoca to billions in payments.

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Track record

Experience
0+

years in engineering

Scale
0+

engineers scaled through hypergrowth

Payments
$B+

processed annually by a payments orchestration platform I architected

Arsenal
JavaGoKotlin AWSKubernetesTerraform PostgreSQLLLMsAgentic AI
Base

Cluj-Napoca, RO

travels well for good conferences

Now

Teaching robots to funk

Data at scale, ML & LLMs

research & applied agentic AI

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Status

ALL SYSTEMS FUNKTIONAL ALL SYSTEMS OPERATIONAL UPTIME: 16+ YEARS · 0 PERMANENT OUTAGES
2024-06 Multi-wave DDoS attack, millions of requests — read the post-mortem → MITIGATED
2021 → now Hypergrowth scaling event — engineering org grew from a handful to 50+ ABSORBED
ongoing Payments orchestration platform — billions flowing annually OPERATIONAL
ongoing Data at scale, ML & agentic AI research IN PROGRESS

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Speaking

I talk. A lot. Preferably on stages — DevTalks, TechSummit, and anywhere else with a mic and a distributed system worth complaining about. These are my favorite rants:

Conference speaker — DevTalks, TechSummit, and community meetups. Talks that turn production war stories into practical lessons on architecture, platforms, and people. Topics I cover:

01

Distributed Systems

consensus, failure modes, and everything that breaks at 3 AM

02

Platform Engineering

golden paths, internal platforms, and infra teams developers actually like

03

Scaling Engineering Teams

from a handful to 50+ through hypergrowth — org design without the drama

04

AI & ML, Applied

LLMs and agents put to work where they actually pay off

05

Java & Spring

a love letter to the stack that quietly runs the world

06

Event-Driven & Software Architecture

message brokers, clean boundaries, and systems that age well

Invite me to speak → Or just read the saga See my work on GitHub

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