Summary
Irina Petrea is a Senior Software Engineer based in Cluj-Napoca with seven years of industry experience building production systems at LSEG and earlier roles at Telenav. With a master's focus in Artificial Intelligence and a DeepMind scholarship, she blends strong theoretical grounding in AI and computer vision with practical engineering for search and data platforms. As a former Google Search engineer and algorithms enthusiast, she brings a curiosity for core algorithmic problems and a knack for optimizing large-scale systems. She has teaching experience in functional programming, reflecting a preference for principled, well-typed code and sound design. Passionate about linguistics, she often connects language insights to ML and search problems in creative ways. Colleagues know her for combining rigorous theory with pragmatic delivery across research-adjacent and production environments.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree, Artificial Intelligence at Technical University of Cluj Napoca
English, French, Romanian