Adrian Michel is a versatile software engineer with over two decades of experience building full-stack web and native Windows systems, from early telecom research to recent C++ security work. He has led architecture and performance redesigns at companies like Reputation.com and Plaxo, founded and shipped Tradery (a trading platform with a custom C++ DSL and >5,600 users), and authored popular open-source utilities such as YLoader. Comfortable across PHP/JavaScript/Java backends, MySQL/MongoDB, and low-level C/C++ multithreaded code, he prioritizes OOP purity, fault tolerance, and low-maintenance production systems. Adrian pairs product-focused engineering with hands-on user feedback and instrumentation, and has delivered multi-million dollar cost savings through pragmatic redesigns. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends entrepreneurial initiative with a long track record of shipping scalable, reliable software.
9 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Electronics and Telecommunications, MS, Electronics and Telecommunications at Polytechnic Institute of Bucharest
A C++ library and utility for algorithmic trading system back-testing
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