Alex Morega
Chief Technology Officer at Freelancer
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolAlex Morega is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Bucharest with 17 years of hands-on experience building production web platforms, developer tooling, and observability for startups and public-sector clients. He combines full-stack engineering and product ownership—ranging from Django/Flask backends and React mobile apps to search engines and GIS/RDF systems—with a track record of shipping pragmatic, maintainable solutions as both a freelancer and senior engineer at agencies like Torchbox. An active open-source contributor, Alex has improved testing and Python 3 compatibility across critical projects such as pip, RQ, Werkzeug and Babel, demonstrating a strong focus on reliability, internationalization, and Unicode correctness. At GoWoofer he helped take a prototype to a live V1 and is integrating AI tools as force multipliers across engineering and product; previously he packaged an on-prem search platform for investigative journalism funded by Google DNI, showing an aptitude for mission-driven tooling and privacy-conscious deployments.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, BS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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python
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flask
top-1%
jinja2
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Github Skills (59)
babel610
objective-c10
filesystem10
javascript10
webview10
rails-i18n10
werkzeug10
python10
redis10
rqt10
api-design10
scripting10
file-manipulation10
testing10
packaging10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
python-babel/babel
Jul 2013 - Mar 2014
The official repository for Babel, the Python Internationalization Library
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:93 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on adapting the Babel library for different locales. Their commits include changes related to handling changes in CLDR (Unicode Common Locale Data Repository) data, modifying datetime and currency formatting, and addressing week number variations across locales. They also removed and updated locale-specific data, and fixed issues related to time zone name formatting.
pythoncldrgettexti18nl10n
jigish/slate
Jan 2013 - Jan 2013
A window management application (replacement for Divvy/SizeUp/ShiftIt)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alex significantly enhanced the Slate window management application by adding JavaScript scripting capabilities. They implemented a JavaScript API, allowing users to define custom behavior through `.slate.js` files. The contributions included creating methods for core operations such as binding hotkeys, nudging, resizing, and relaunching. This involved integrating a WebView and enabling communication between JavaScript and Objective-C code.
window-management
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