Mircea Pricop
Software Engineer at Jane Street
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMircea Pricop is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience and a decade-long tenure at Google, now applying his expertise at Jane Street. He specializes in web development with strong experience across backend infrastructure and batch data processing, frequently tackling ill-defined problems and driving projects from prototype to production. At Google he contributed to YouTube Creator Studio web infrastructure and internal people/team directories, demonstrating both product-facing and corporate engineering breadth. Mircea is a hands-on technical leader and mentor who thrives on mentoring junior engineers and guiding teams through complex technical decisions. He also contributes to open-source work—improving a JavaScript k-d tree implementation with mutable operations, balance factors and visualization examples—showing attention to robust algorithms and developer UX. Based in London, he combines deep practical experience with a curiosity for mastering new technologies to solve novel problems.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Hamburg
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Github Skills (14)
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
javascript10
data-structure10
front-end-development9
google-maps-api9
data-visualization8
data-visualisation8
data-visualizations8
pty6
linux6
ruby6
kill6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ubilabs/kd-tree-javascript
May 2012 - Apr 2015
JavaScript k-d Tree Implementation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mircea primarily focused on enhancing and refactoring the JavaScript k-d tree implementation. Their contributions include adding new examples, such as a map-based visualization using Google Maps, and refactoring the code to support mutable trees, enabling insertion and deletion operations. They also implemented features such as a balance factor, and addressed an important edge case in the deletion algorithm to prevent tree corruption.
javascript
mirceapricop/trl
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Train transformer language models with reinforcement learning.
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 days
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