Mihai Nita
Sr. Software Engineer - Internationalization
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarMihai Nita is a senior internationalization engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience bringing products to global markets, currently driving i18n efforts at Google after roles at Netflix and Adobe. He blends deep C/C++ and system-level expertise with Java, C#, Android, macOS, web and cross-platform experience, and has led both engineering and consulting teams since the late 1990s. Mihai has authored internal and customer-facing best-practice guides, taught classes on Java/XML and web i18n, and helped major services expand into regions like Canada, Latin America and Europe. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved ICU’s MessageFormat and Eclipse SWT’s StyledText export, showing attention to messy real-world issues like skeleton formats and clipboard/whitespace handling. Unusually for an i18n specialist, his background includes developing systems for Romanian air traffic control and bank printing, reflecting a taste for high-integrity, safety-critical software.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
French, Romanian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (30)
date-formatting10
platform-agnostic10
c-language10
multiplatform10
internationalization10
date-format10
cross-platform10
ui-design10
messageformat10
rtf10
java10
javas10
time-format10
localization10
html10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
unicode-org/icu
Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
The home of the ICU project source code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Localization Specialist
Back-end Developer & Localization SpecialistContributions:410 reviews, 14 commits, 238 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Mihai primarily focused on improving the ICU project's message formatting capabilities. Their work involved enhancing the handling of number arguments in MessageFormat, specifically documenting skeleton support. Furthermore, the user contributed to the localization efforts by updating the documentation for ListFormatter, expanding the date/time skeleton support, and fixing measure format issues, demonstrating an understanding of internationalization requirements. They also fixed documentation errors and improved the API documentation for the project.
cppc-plus-plusicu4cunicode-consortiumicu4j
eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Eclipse SWT
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Mihai implemented features related to rich text formatting, specifically focusing on integrating HTML and RTF output formats for the `StyledText` widget. They extracted common code into a base class, refactoring the code and improving code reuse. Additionally, they addressed issues related to whitespace handling in the HTML output, contributing to improved clipboard functionality and overall user experience.
swtjavaeclipsecross-platform-guiui
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