Andrei Picus
Software Engineer at Navigraph
Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolAndrei Picus is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building resilient front-end systems and leading architecture discussions, currently at Navigraph after a long tenure as Frontend Lead and Staff Engineer II at Tink. He has modernized checkout and analytics experiences at companies like Spotify and Hootsuite, and brings practical full-stack experience from TypeScript monorepos to legacy jQuery UI internals. An active open-source contributor, Andrei has improved widely used projects—adding drag-and-drop and resizing robustness to Hootsuite’s grid, hardening React Cosmos’ data fetching mixin, and contributing tests and fixes to the official jQuery UI repo. Known for combining hands-on coding with tooling and QA improvements, he favors pragmatic refactors and strong test coverage to reduce regressions in complex UIs. Based in Sweden and grounded in a computer engineering background from Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, he pairs product-focus with deep front-end craft.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
"Mircea cel Batran" National CollegeBachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti
English, French, Romanian
Github Skills (26)
unit-testing10
javascript10
jquery10
ui-components10
testing10
typescript10
nextjs10
user-interface10
component-kit10
typescript-types10
jquery-ui10
typescripts10
react10
debug9
sandbox9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
NiGhTTraX/ts-monorepo
May 2019 - Jan 2023
Template for setting up a TypeScript monorepo
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 251 commits, 49 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily contributed to setting up and providing examples for a TypeScript monorepo, focusing on various frontend frameworks and build tools. They implemented examples for Next.js, Jest, Webpack, ts-node, Create React App, Storybook, and Vite. Their work involved configuring build processes, integrating dependencies, and creating basic application structures to showcase different technologies within the monorepo context.
typescript-monorepojestdevcontainerworkspacesswc
hootsuite/grid
Apr 2014 - Jun 2016
Drag and drop library for two-dimensional, resizable and responsive lists
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:71 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Andrei primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `hootsuite/grid` library, focusing on front-end features. Their work included adding draggable options to the grid list and passing draggable options when creating new instances. The user also implemented unit tests to ensure the correct handling of item resizing and positioning. These changes involved modifications to the core JavaScript files and the demo examples.
reactgrid-systemgrid-layouttwo-dimensionalgrids
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