Nicolae Surdu is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of professional experience, currently building products at Smilecloud from his base in Timișoara, Romania. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at 3Pillar Global and AMVTek, combining hands-on development with team and module leadership. An active open-source contributor to the widely used NativeScript project, he focuses on cross-platform mobile consistency—adding features like TextView maxLines and fixing observable-array bugs across iOS and Android. Technically minded and curious, he enjoys applying his free time to practical IT and hardware projects, reflecting a blend of software engineering and physics training from Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara. Colleagues value him for turning platform inconsistencies into reliable, maintainable solutions and for shipping pragmatic improvements that benefit multiple mobile ecosystems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
IT & Physics, IT & Physics, IT & Physics, IT & Physics at Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara
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Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android/iOS)
Contributions:7 commits, 10 PRs, 81 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicolae primarily contributed to the NativeScript project by implementing and improving core functionalities across both iOS and Android platforms. Their work included adding the `maxLines` property to the `TextView` component, making the `startMonitoring` method behave consistently on iOS, and enabling more flexible background positioning. They also fixed bugs related to `observable-array` methods. These changes show a focus on cross-platform mobile development and maintaining consistency between the different target platforms.
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