Alexandru Petruș is a Senior Software Engineer and remote-first consultant with over six years of hands-on experience building high-performance front-end applications in Angular and React and complementary Node.js backends. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy systems into reusable component libraries, boosting development velocity and test coverage while cutting integration costs for enterprise clients. At 8x8 and 3Pillar he drove front-end architecture and cross-browser component work that measurably improved load times and developer productivity. Alexandru also contributes to notable open-source projects like Jitsi Meet, where he enhanced screen-sharing UX and fixed cross-browser chat behavior, showing attention to both user experience and platform interoperability. Based in Cluj-Napoca with a Computer Science degree from Babeș-Bolyai University, he pairs deep frontend expertise with pragmatic CI/CD, testing and microservices practices to deliver reliable, scalable products.
3 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Colegiul Național „Emil Racoviță”
Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences that you use as a standalone app or embed in your web application.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:4 reviews, 7 commits, 10 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributed to the front-end of the Jitsi Meet application. They fixed a scrolling issue in the chat feature for Safari browsers. They implemented a new ScreenSharePlaceholder component for the large video view, improving the user experience during screen sharing. They also added functionality to the invite dialog by including a dial-in limit message.
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Alexandru Petruș - Senior Software Engineer at Remote Work