Alex Petrescu
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarAlexandru Petrescu is a software engineer with 15 years of experience building consumer-facing products and leading technical teams, currently focused on Assistant client platforms at Meta. He transitioned from web startups and agencies—where he co-founded Urban Pixels and led fast-paced product builds with strong design sensibilities—to scaling Android applications at Facebook used by billions. Known for thriving in uncertainty, he combines systems-level thinking with pragmatic execution to make complex implementations efficient and resource-conscious. He has repeatedly led 10–20 person teams and driven cross-org projects, blending hands-on engineering with long-term product vision. Based in Seattle, he brings a rare mix of startup agility and large-scale production experience.
15 years of coding experience
Github Skills (18)
android10
network-traffic10
cpp6
android-library6
thrift6
simulation6
synthetic-data5
unreal5
perl5
javascript4
duckduckgo4
computer-vision4
arcore3
machine-learning3
terminal-emulator2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebookarchive/device-year-class
Mar 2015 - Feb 2018
A library that analyzes an Android device's specifications and calculates which year the device would be considered "high end”.
Contributions:1 release, 16 commits, 16 PRs in 3 years
android
facebookarchive/network-connection-class
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Listen to current network traffic in the app and categorize the quality of the network.
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 5 months
network-traffic
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