Alex Viscreanu
Software Engineer at ScyllaDB
Brno, South Moravia, Czechia
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Top SchoolAlex Viscreanu is a software engineer with 10 years of experience based in Brno, Czechia, blending backend systems work with hands-on developer tooling and frontend improvements. He currently builds Scylla Cloud backend at ScyllaDB, focusing on scalable, high-performance distributed systems. At Kiwi.com he progressed from platform engineer to Staff Software Engineer on the search team and led platform teams that improved developer experience and code quality. An active open-source contributor, he’s worked on the Zed code editor (from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter), adding workspace and editor UX features, and has improved frontend projects by modularizing components and migrating styling to Tailwind. Alex is known for pragmatic, performance-minded engineering and attention to small UX details that materially improve developer workflows, and holds a degree in computer engineering from Universitat Politècnica de València.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Universitat Politècnica de València
Catalan, Romanian, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
60reputation
2kreached
3answers
3questions
Github Skills (33)
rust-lang10
editors10
javascript10
ui-d10
text-editor10
tailwind-css10
workspace10
user-interface10
ui-design10
editor10
graphical-user-interface10
human-interface10
workspaces10
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Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
zed-industries/zed
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Code at the speed of thought – Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 1 PR, 17 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the code editor's workspace functionality. Their work involved implementing features for splitting and opening files, including adding modifier keys. They also focused on editor enhancements like go-to-definition features, providing options to open definitions in a split view. Furthermore, the user worked on improvements related to the display of Git status and the addition of options for tab management, such as moving the close button position and closing inactive editors.
gpuirust-langtext-editorzed
eidam/cf-workers-status-page
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Monitor your websites, showcase status including daily history, and get Slack/Telegram/Discord notification whenever your website status changes. Using Cloudflare Workers, CRON Triggers, and KV storage.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 6 commits, 5 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the status page. They implemented a monitor filter, enabling users to search for specific monitors, and refactored the code to move the status header into its own component, improving modularity. Additionally, the user made cosmetic changes to spacing and added a link to the monitored URLs. The user also made the change to switch the CSS framework to tailwind.
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