Alexandru Turcanu
Founder at 851 Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandru Turcanu is a founder and product-focused software engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of hands-on experience building user-facing tools and productivity integrations. He has shipped full-stack and front-end work at startups like Palette, Campsite, and Amie, and contributed practical automation and utility scripts to the popular Raycast ecosystem—painted succinctly as "painting with pixels" on GitHub. Comfortable across iOS, web UI, and scripting, he pairs product sensibility with an engineer’s attention to detail, often refactoring and extending small tools that improve daily developer workflows (VPN control, network status, GitHub integrations). His background includes hardware leadership in competitive robotics, giving him a pragmatic systems mindset and a knack for translating complex requirements into reliable implementations. Currently leading 851 Inc., he blends rapid prototyping with product craftsmanship and a taste for delightful micro-optimizations that quietly boost team productivity.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
International Informatics High School of BucharestBachelor's in Applied Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor's in Applied Computer Science Computer Science at Make School
English, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
sh10
raycast10
scriptcs10
bash10
script10
shell10
openvpn10
vpn10
scripting10
rscript10
networkmanager9
management9
net9
manage9
system-administration7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
raycast/script-commands
Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
Script Commands let you tailor Raycast to your needs. Think of them as little productivity boosts throughout your day.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 27 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributed to the development of Raycast script commands. Their work included adding, updating, and refactoring shell scripts. They implemented commands for VPN control (connect, disconnect, status), network status, and adding spacers to the dock, as well as making adjustments to existing scripts for conversions, and Google Maps integration. They also addressed GitHub integration through command creation.
scriptscriptingproductivityraycastscript-commands
pondorasti/alexandru
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A corner on the internet dedicated to Alexandru Turcanu.
Contributions:333 commits, 91 PRs, 246 pushes in 3 years 7 months
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