Alex Nitu
Lead Founding Engineer at TalentLynk.ai
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAlex Nitu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating scalable, security-conscious distributed systems across cloud platforms. He has driven stability, performance, and large-scale feature launches at Snyk—contributing to the popular Snyk CLI by improving SARIF types, ignored-issue handling, and SCM reporting—before moving to TalentLynk.ai. Pragmatic and curious, he balances engineering craftsmanship with product urgency, owning incident response, observability, and CI/CD for both single- and multi-tenant environments. Comfortable across backend, full-stack and DevOps domains, he pairs hands-on coding with system design and cross-team collaboration. Outside work he explores open-source projects, game development and music production, bringing a disciplined yet playful curiosity to technical challenges.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Humanities/Humanistic Studies, Humanities/Humanistic Studies at Spiru Haret National CollegeMaritime Engineering, Maritime Engineering at Constanta Maritime UniversityEconomics, Economics at Economic College
English, Romanian
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Github Skills (12)
snyk10
vulnerabilities10
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
sarif10
cli10
security10
testing9
nodejs9
monitor8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
snyk/cli
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Snyk CLI scans and monitors your projects for security vulnerabilities.
Role in this project:
Backend & Security Engineer
Backend & Security EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 1 commit, 57 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Alex contributed to the Snyk CLI project by correcting code analysis return types and handling ignored security issues. They also refactored the code to add Sarif types and move filtering functions for better code organization. Furthermore, the user implemented SCM report functionality, adding support for reporting on SCM projects, including relevant tests and data flow adjustments.
clisecuritysnykvulnerabilitiesmonitor
novalex/goof
Jun 2021 - Dec 2021
Super vulnerable todo list application
Contributions:106 PRs, 606 pushes, 58 branches in 5 months
vulnerablenodejstodo-listtodo
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