Alexandra Zaharia
Cloud Software Engineer at Upsun (formerly Platform.sh)
Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolAlexandra Zaharia is a Cloud Software Engineer with over eight years of hands-on experience spanning cloud platforms, embedded systems, machine learning and bioinformatics, anchored by a PhD in Computer Science. She combines low-level C/C++ and RTOS expertise with Python-driven data and ML pipelines, and is actively growing her system design, container and Go skills while working on multi-cloud PaaS at Platform.sh. Her background includes prototyping embedded firmware and algorithms (fingerprint sensor, flat EEPROM filesystem), building backend microservices and factory test frameworks, and scaling research-grade ML workflows that handled 100+ GB datasets. A GNU/Linux enthusiast and experienced educator, she has taught university courses, presented widely, and published open-source tools from her research. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic engineer who favors elegant, maintainable solutions to complexity and enjoys mentoring and technical communication.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Biology General, Bachelor of Science - BS Biology General at Paris-Sud University (Paris XI)Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Universitatea „Spiru Haret” din BucureștiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Université Paris-Saclay
English, French, Romanian, Spanish
Github Skills (34)
bootstrap10
rubygems10
technical-writing10
jamstack10
devcontainer10
jekyll10
jekyll-theme10
interprocess-communication8
database-replication8
ipc7
non-relational-database7
platformsh7
semi-supervised-learning6
java6
database5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
alexandra-zaharia/platformsh-docs
Apr 2022 - Dec 2025
Platform.sh documentation. Templates available at https://github.com/platformsh-templates/
Contributions:4 pushes, 6 branches in 3 years 8 months
platform-shplatformsh
alexandra-zaharia/Linux-IPC
Feb 2019 - Apr 2019
Learning Linux inter-process communication (IPC)
Contributions:72 commits, 2 PRs, 68 pushes in 2 months
interprocess-communicationipclinux
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