Mihai Branescu
Technical Lead at Palantir Technologies
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMihai Branescu is a Technical Lead based in London with 11 years of software engineering experience, including a strong six-year background in mobile (Android) development and three years building large-scale, end-to-end systems on Palantir Foundry. He blends hands-on mobile expertise—contributing UI/UX improvements, locale management, and unit-tested features to high-profile Mozilla Android projects—with production experience in distributed computing and LLM-driven solutions using Spark and modern ML tooling. At Palantir he moved from Forward Deployed Engineer to Technical Lead, bridging client-facing delivery with scalable platform engineering. Mihai’s work is notable for combining product-facing polish (recent apps modules, toolbar enhancements) with rigorous testing and data-driven, distributed architectures. He holds a Computer Science degree from University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and an MBA-focused master’s, reflecting both technical depth and business-minded delivery. Colleagues know him for shipping reliable, test-covered features in complex, cross-border projects while rapidly adopting cutting-edge ML and data technologies.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Academia de Studii Economice BucurestiPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English, French
Github Skills (23)
kotlin10
unit-testing10
browser10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
uid10
roomdb10
front-end-development10
android10
android-ui10
ui-components9
develop9
accessibility9
component-kit9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla-mobile/fenix
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
⚠️ Fenix (Firefox for Android) moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained as part of: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:70 commits, 114 PRs, 48 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Mihai primarily contributed to the Fenix (Firefox for Android) project by implementing and modifying UI components and features within the Android application. They updated string resources for the ETP onboarding popup and added a back shortcuts button to the awesomebar, refactoring provider logic. Furthermore, the user fixed private mode notification issues and addressed toolbar color problems within the edit bookmark fragment, demonstrating a focus on UI/UX and feature enhancements. Also, the user added unit tests for interactor and controller classes, ensuring code quality.
firefoxbrowserandroidfirefox-for-androidmozilla
mozilla-mobile/android-components
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
⚠️ This project moved to a new repository. It is now developed and maintained at: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/firefox-android
Role in this project:Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:13 commits, 15 PRs, 32 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Mihai contributed to the Android components repository, focusing on locale management and the share feature. They implemented functionality to reset the locale to the system default and added unit tests for locale handling. Furthermore, the user developed a recent apps module, including database interactions for storing and ranking recent apps, and added associated unit tests for this new module. They also made changes to the display and edit toolbars.
firefoxbrowserfirebasefirefox-androidandroid
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