Alex Simonescu
Senior Engineering Manager Fotocasa Group
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolAlex Simonescu is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Madrid with 11 years of experience building high-performing teams and scalable backend platforms for large online marketplaces. He currently leads engineering for Fotocasa and Habitaclia at Fotocasa Group, driving reliability, performance and business value while shaping a Backend Community and Champions Program. Previously he enabled cross-marketplace adoption of shared architectures and internal developer platforms across Adevinta’s European marketplaces, bridging global strategy and local delivery. Alex’s hands-on roots in backend engineering and migrations—from monoliths to microservices using Kotlin/Java and Spring Boot—inform his pragmatic approach to architecture and operational excellence. He also contributes to open-source mobile tooling, having refactored and modernized the Glucosio Android app, reflecting a continued craft mindset beyond management. Motivated by clarity, collaboration and solutions-first thinking, he focuses on measurable outcomes, developer experience and sustainable engineering practices.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Técnico superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Multiplataforma Programación informática, Técnico superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Multiplataforma Programación informática at IES Juan de la CiervaTécnico superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web Programación informática, Técnico superior en Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Web Programación informática at IES Vista AlegreTécnico en Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes, Técnico en Sistemas Microinformáticos y Redes at IES Sagrado Corazón
Spanish, English, Romanian
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Github Skills (17)
mobile-development10
java10
javas10
android-app10
android10
android-application10
webview9
android-webview9
network-connection8
net8
connectivity8
audio-recording6
android-emulator6
iphone6
sqlite6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Glucosio/glucosio-android
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Glucosio Android App
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 28 comments in 25 days
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on developing and refactoring the Glucosio Android app. Their contributions include updating deprecated code, moving URLs to fields, extracting methods for cleaner code, and implementing network connectivity features. They also refactored the LicenceActivity, introducing a presenter and incorporating testing, and renamed the LicenceActivity to ExternalLinkActivity, improving modularity and maintainability.
android-appandroiddiabetesandroid-glucosio
alxsimo/alxsimo.github.io
May 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 16 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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