Dan Andreescu
Free Culture Engineer at Wikimedia Foundation
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolDan Andreescu is a Free Culture Engineer and software architect with 13 years of experience designing highly scalable systems, efficient Ajax interfaces, and performance-tuned databases. Based in New York, he brings practical implementation expertise in C# and Java to roles ranging from co-founding LinkLab to long-term engineering at the Wikimedia Foundation. His background blends rigorous theoretical training from Cornell with hands-on architecture work for enterprises like Comcast and Disney, enabling clean, scriptable HTML and maintainable system designs. Notably, he pairs startup CTO experience with nonprofit open-knowledge engineering, reflecting a rare mix of entrepreneurial drive and commitment to free culture.
13 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Cornell University
Romanian, English
Stackoverflow
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12questions
jqgrid
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compression
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statistics
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javascript
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jquery
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flask
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Github Skills (200)
plotly-dash10
mediawiki10
uwsgi10
python10
autocomplete10
metadata10
gerrit10
rest-api10
backend10
flask10
javascript10
jquery10
puppet10
wikipedia10
data-analytics10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/analytics-wikimetrics
May 2013 - Oct 2018
Github mirror of "analytics/wikimetrics" - our actual code is hosted with Gerrit (please see https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing
Contributions:470 commits in 5 years 5 months
analyticshostedgithub-mirrorgerritwiki
milimetric/vim-config
May 2015 - May 2024
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 9 years 1 month
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