Adrian Catangiu

Adrian Catangiu is an experienced software engineer with a strong background in cloud computing and network optimization. Currently serving as Team Lead at Parity Technologies since October 2021, Adrian leads Bridges and XCM initiatives and has made significant contributions to the BEEFY consensus protocol and Polkadot's trustless bridges. Prior to this role, Adrian spent over four years at Amazon Web Services as a Senior Software Development Engineer, focusing on AWS serverless cloud foundations and maintaining the Firecracker Hypervisor. Earlier experience includes roles at Ixia as a Principal Software Engineer and Software Engineer, where Adrian specialized in high-performance networking within the OS team, and as a Systems Software Engineer at Hitachi Data Systems, contributing to NAS products. Adrian holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest.