Diana Cretu
Software Engineer at bp
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Summary
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Top SchoolDiana Cretu is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web and systems software across enterprises like Microsoft, ING, and bp, currently based in Dubai. She has driven measurable improvements—halving runtime for an internal license-scanning tool at Microsoft and cutting Azure image-delivery costs by 75% through a scalable image caching design. Her background spans full-stack web app delivery, cloud and on-prem services, test automation, and embedded/firmware work, evidenced by contributions to the Sound Open Firmware project supporting i.MX8 platforms and adding fuzzer APIs. Diana combines a hands-on engineering approach with a focus on efficiency and security, having led efforts to harden services and streamline processing pipelines. Trained at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, she thrives on challenges and continuous learning, often stretching beyond conventional roles into low-level platform and testing work. Colleagues describe her as ambitious and persistent, consistently pushing to exceed expectations while producing auditable, production-ready solutions.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
National College "Mihai Viteazul" PloiestiPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
Github Skills (11)
firmware10
embedded10
dspic10
mx10
sys10
imx810
qemu10
dspace10
c119
c179
audio8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
thesofproject/sof
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
Sound Open Firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 6 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Diana primarily contributes to the support of the i.MX8 family of processors within the Sound Open Firmware project. Their commits involve adding and modifying platform-specific configurations and checks for QEMU, including the i.MX8, i.MX8X, and i.MX8M platforms, indicating a focus on hardware emulation and testing. Additionally, the user implemented fuzzer APIs for the i.MX8, demonstrating an involvement in testing and validation of firmware functionality on this platform. These changes suggest a deep understanding of the i.MX8 platform's architecture and integration within the SOF framework.
firmwaremidiaudiodspsound
dianacretu/qemu
Dec 2019 - Apr 2020
Official QEMU mirror. Please see http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch for how to submit changes to QEMU. Pull Requests are ignored. Please only use release tarballs from the QEMU website. SOF - Please use sof-stable branch for SOF development.
Contributions:72 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
netbsdtarballsqemusubmitpull-requests
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