Alex Stefanescu
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bothell, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Stefanescu is a Principal Software Engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale systems across Amazon and Microsoft, currently based in Bothell, WA. He progressed from SDE roles to senior and principal engineering positions, demonstrating deep expertise in cloud-scale architecture and delivery. Known for open-source and community building, he blends hands-on coding with mentoring and cross-team collaboration to accelerate product impact. His background from Colorado School of Mines gives him strong engineering foundations, while years at hyperscalers honed his ability to operationalize reliable services. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex requirements into pragmatic, production-grade solutions and to cultivate engineering craft within teams. He often pairs systems thinking with a community-first approach, contributing beyond code to developer ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Colorado School of Mines
English, Romanian
Github Skills (122)
python10
django-framework10
vote10
ontology10
graph-database10
excel10
earthquake10
django10
crowd10
data-model10
arcgis-js-api10
entity10
code4ro10
linked-open-data10
tax10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
catileptic/CCTV-ApTI
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
code4romania/tfsg.code4.ro
Jul 2019 - Feb 2022
Website for the Tech for Social Good program
Contributions:1 review, 151 commits, 164 PRs in 2 years 7 months
social-good
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