Summary
Alexandru Cristian is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently leading architecture and delivery for Bing Maps Traffic at Microsoft where he designs distributed, horizontally scalable back-end systems processing terabytes of traffic data daily. He has deep expertise in real-time and batch pipelines—proposing Flink for streaming, Spark/Databricks for batch, and building a GRPC-backed map-matching API in C#—and recently led a ground-up rework of the traffic ingestion system using an actor-based distributed architecture. Alexandru blends systems engineering with applied ML, having integrated camera-image classifiers and custom FFMPEG-based time-lapse features into production traffic services to enrich user experiences. He also built enterprise-grade route optimization (MIO) and contributed research-collaborative work on large-scale routing, showing an uncommon mix of algorithmic insight and pragmatic engineering. Based in Timiș, Romania, he is passionate about solving hard scalability and latency problems and enabling teams to ship reliable, high-throughput services.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
"Gh. Lazar" National College, Sibiu
Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Software Engineering at Universitatea „Politehnica” din Timișoara