Andrei-florin Bencsik
Independent Contractor at Self-employed
Romania
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Top SchoolAndrei-florin Bencsik is a C++ systems engineer with a decade of experience delivering low-latency, high-performance software across HFT, telecoms, mapping, and computer vision domains. He specializes in writing hardware-aware, memory- and cache-efficient C++ (often on x86 with Mellanox NICs) and has repeatedly cut order and strategy latencies by large margins through careful allocation, pre-faulting, alignment and kernel tweaks. As an independent contractor and former senior engineer at firms like Broadridge, Telenav and Everseen, he blends deep hands-on optimization with modern tooling—CMake, sanitizers, CI, and containerized deployments—to keep code small, testable and fast. He also contributes to notable open-source projects such as the Wesnoth game engine, improving build consistency and modularity, showing attention to developer experience as well as runtime performance. Comfortable both leading small teams and doing focused solo work, he pairs pragmatic data-driven decisions with a passion for elegant, non‑pessimized code. Based in Romania, he brings a practical mix of systems-level expertise and continuous learning in modern C++ practices.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree - Télécom Bretagne, Computer Science, Master's degree - Télécom Bretagne, Computer Science at IMT AtlantiqueBachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications, Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor's degree in Electronics and Telecommunications, Telecommunications Engineering at Politehnica University Timisoara
English, French, Romanian, German
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Github Skills (16)
build-system10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
st8
videogames8
gameplay8
2d-game7
open-source7
constexpr6
struct6
casting6
namespaces6
opengl6
networking6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
wesnoth/wesnoth
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
An open source, turn-based strategy game with a high fantasy theme.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 reviews, 13 commits, 11 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andrei-florin primarily refactored CMake files, focusing on code consistency and adding imported targets. They also worked on refactoring various `Find*.cmake` files to streamline the build process, introducing macros for code reuse and improving modularity. Further contributions involved small fixes and cleanup in `about.[h|c]pp` and in `arrow.h/cpp`. The user demonstrated expertise in improving build system configuration and code quality.
2d-gameturn-based-strategygamec-plus-plusstrategy
bencsikandrei/redis-cpp
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
redis-cpp is a header-only library in C++17 for Redis (and C++11 backport)
Contributions:1 release, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 2 months
cppredisbackportheaderc-plus-plus
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