Alex Ungurianu is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, developer platforms, and high-impact tooling at Bloomberg. He moves between backend and frontend concerns, having led JavaScript infrastructure and Charts Platform work as well as security-focused projects, and earlier built trader-facing dashboards at JPMorgan. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved core primitives in the widely used Python Kazoo Zookeeper library, demonstrating deep systems-level understanding. Curious by nature and committed to mentoring, he pairs rigorous computer-science training (First-class honours, St Andrews) with practical product instincts—once reducing a common trading workflow from eight clicks to two.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree (Honours), Computer Science, First, Bachelor’s Degree (Honours), Computer Science, First at University of St. Andrews
High School, Computer Science, 9.61/10, High School, Computer Science, 9.61/10 at National College of Informatics
Kazoo is a high-level Python library that makes it easier to use Apache Zookeeper.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:23 reviews, 9 commits, 6 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the `kazoo` library, focusing on improving the implementation of specific recipes like locks and caches. Their work involved refactoring existing code, addressing Windows path joining issues, and replacing deprecated or inefficient components. Furthermore, the user made changes to improve the codebase by removing unnecessary imports and refactoring to leverage Python's built-in implementations where possible. The contributions demonstrate a deep understanding of the library's internal workings.
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Alex Ungurianu - Senior Software Engineer at Bloomberg