Ionut Lepadatescu
Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolIonut Lepadatescu is a Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 13 years of hands-on experience building mobile and embedded experiences, especially Android and Bluetooth-enabled products. At Fitbit and now Google he has progressed from lead to staff-level roles, blending deep platform engineering with product-focused delivery and organizational leadership. He’s comfortable across native Android, React Native integrations, and CI-driven release processes, and has contributed practical improvements to open-source mobile components (e.g., enhancing a native iOS search bar for React Native). Known for tackling both technical complexity and team/process challenges, he prioritizes enabling users and shipping reliable, polished experiences. His background in IT&C security and economics-informed informatics gives him a pragmatic, security-aware perspective on mobile systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Academia de Studii Economice BucurestiBachelor of Science (BS) Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Informatics at Facultatea de Economie si Administrarea Afacerilor
English
Github Skills (6)
objective-c10
ios10
react-native10
uid8
interface-design8
ui-design8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
umhan35/react-native-search-bar
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
The high-quality iOS native search bar for react native.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ionut primarily worked on enhancing the React Native search bar component. Their contributions focused on adding and implementing a `textColor` prop to customize the text color within the search bar. This involved modifications to both the JavaScript (React Native) and Objective-C (native iOS) components of the search bar. They also refined the Objective-C code to improve the handling of the `textColor` property.
reactsearch-barreact-nativeios-nativehigh-quality
Fitbit/bitgatt
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022
The FitbitGatt API is designed to provide a strong state machine around all Android gatt operations with the aim of making Android BLE development across Android vendors as straightforward and side-effect free as possible.
Contributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 76 commits in 2 years 3 months
apiaimvendorsbluetoothble
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