Elena Tanasoiu

Elena Tanasoiu is an accomplished Staff Software Engineer at GitHub, where notable contributions include enhancing performance engineering, achieving significant reductions in issue creation time and CPU consumption, and improving observability. Prior to GitHub, Elena served as a Senior Software Engineer at FutureLearn, leading product development in a digital education platform, and at TRX TV, where Elena contributed to team growth and feature development for an online marketplace. With earlier experience at companies like Unboxed.co, Funding Circle UK, and Government Digital Service, Elena specialized in Ruby on Rails and built various web applications and APIs, while managing backend jobs and enhancing system performance. Elena holds a Master’s degree in Technology Based Business Development from Aarhus University and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest.