MihaiĀ Nicolae
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMihai Nicolae is a Senior Software Development Engineer IV at GoDaddy with 11 years of experience delivering scalable cloud, backend, and developer-experience improvements. Based in San Francisco, he has led multi-quarter initiatives to deliver multi-region data center redundancy for Domain Broker Service and retire an on-prem Node.js API Gateway, while enhancing domain fulfillment through data-lake integrations. He specializes in infrastructure automation and cost optimization, including automating AWS infrastructure, performing global Aurora failovers, rotating IAM credentials, renewing certificates, and achieving 8% cost savings by switching non-prod workloads to EC2 spot instances. Earlier at IBM, he drove 99.9% build-system availability, reduced build times by 4x, and expanded support for custom runtimes and open-source libraries within Watson Studio and Db2 Security projects. He holds an Honours BSc in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, University of St. Michael's College, bringing hands-on engineering with large-scale systems thinking to production-grade software.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
continuous-integration9
testing9
aws9
aws-lambda8
lambda8
developer-tools8
python8
serverless-framework7
serverless6
aws-cloud6
localstack5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mnicolae/mnicolae.github.com
Jan 2015 - Mar 2024
My personal website
Contributions:4 PRs, 37 pushes, 6 branches in 9 years 3 months
reactnextjs
mnicolae/csc443
Sep 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:61 commits, 7 pushes in 6 months
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