Alex Florescu
Engineering Manager at Google
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Florescu is an Engineering Manager at Google with 12 years of experience building polished, user-facing mobile products and growing resilient engineering teams. He combines hands-on Android development roots—evidenced by open-source contributions like an Android range seek bar component—with a track record of technical leadership from senior developer to manager roles. Based in the UK, he focuses on making technology approachable through delightful UX while prioritizing long-term team stability and growth. He’s comfortable moving between code and people, mentoring engineers and shaping product-facing technical decisions. A former backend/big-data and finance developer, he brings cross-domain pragmatism to mobile-first product challenges.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at The George Washington University
English, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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base64
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apache-commons
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Github Skills (20)
android-sdk10
ui-design10
java10
uid10
javas10
front-end-development10
android10
ui-components9
user-interface9
loops9
apache-commons9
base649
collections6
android-emulator6
threetenbp6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
anothem/android-range-seek-bar
Jun 2015 - Dec 2016
[DEPRECATED] It provides a SeekBar similar to the default Android one, but with two thumb controls allowing a range to be selected, and some other extras as well.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:3 releases, 84 commits, 55 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily worked on the Android-specific code for a range seek bar component. Their contributions included renaming packages for better organization, updating the component's styling and visual appearance by adding features like shadows, text color modifications, and adjusting padding. They also exposed methods like `isDragging()` for external use and fixed variable names after merges. The commits reflect UI/UX and component-level changes within the Android library.
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YahooArchive/android-range-seek-bar
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:2 releases, 26 commits, 16 PRs in 6 months
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