Mike Dinescu
Software Engineer, Alexa at Amazon
Irvine, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorMike Dinescu is a seasoned full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale web services and consumer-facing products, currently developing new capabilities for Alexa at Amazon. He has a strong background in distributed systems and microservices from his time at AWS where he helped scale Mobile Analytics and launched Amazon Pinpoint, and earlier founded Donaq LLC to ship commercial software. His career spans diverse domains—Big Data, home automation, polygraph systems, online music services and vending software—bringing deep hands-on experience across cloud, firmware, and UI work. Passionate about AI, cryptography and info-sec, he pairs practical DevOps instincts with protocol and systems-level thinking. Based in Irvine, CA, Mike is an avid coding competitor who enjoys tackling algorithmic and real-world integration challenges that sit at the intersection of hardware and cloud.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English, Romanian, French
Stackoverflow
54,924reputation
8.1mreached
1,052answers
46questions
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Github Skills (84)
buttons10
pyaudioanalysis10
amazon-dynamodb10
audio10
directives10
sql10
database10
boto10
mysql10
aws-lambda10
localhost10
mir10
amazon-web-services10
signal-processing9
nosql9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
alexa-samples/skill-sample-nodejs-buttons-colorchanger
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Color Changer buttons skill opens with buttons roll call and asks the user to push buttons to change their colors with various animations. It covers roll call, starting and stopping the Input Handler, and defining animations for different button events. It also demonstrates how Echo Buttons can interrupt text-to-speech (TTS).
Contributions:11 commits, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 11 months
pushinput-handlerhandlercoverstts
alexa-samples/skill-sample-nodejs-buttons-hellobuttons
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Hello World buttons skill opens with buttons roll call and asks the user to push two buttons. On button one press, she changes the color to red and on button two press she changes the color to blue. Then closes. This skill demonstrates how to send directives to, and receive events from, Echo Buttons.
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 11 months
eventsbluepushpressdirectives
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