Octavian Purdila
Sr Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolOctavian Purdila is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 18 years of experience building low-level Linux, embedded, and systems software at companies from Intel and Ixia to Fitbit and Google. He combines deep kernel and driver expertise with product-minded architecture work—leading Android BSP and IoT scaling programs, security features, and device bring-up across complex hardware platforms. As a former lecturer and PhD-trained researcher, he also has a long history of teaching operating systems and mentoring engineers, bridging academia and industry. His hands-on contributions span kernel drivers, real-time embedded firmware, and front-end instrument UIs for flight-simulator open-source projects, showing both breadth and attention to UX details. Known for pushing features upstream and reducing system-level complexity, he excels at turning hardware constraints into scalable software solutions.
18 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BSc, MSc, Computer Science, BSc, MSc, Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din BucureștiPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyInternship, Computer Science, Internship, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Romanian
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Github Skills (6)
html10
javascript10
user-interface10
flight-simulation10
xml9
css7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Working-Title-MSFS-Mods/fspackages
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Working Title FS Packages
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 7 PRs in 9 days
Contributions summary:Octavian primarily contributed to the user interface and functionality of flight simulator instruments. They imported and updated JavaScript files for instrument displays, including the HSIndicator and Altimeter. The commits show a focus on displaying correct data and integrating persistent settings such as the barometric pressure unit, DME, and bearing sources. Additional commits addressed UI issues, like hiding wind data on the ground and improving the fastToFixed function for decimal formatting.
linux-kernel-labs/linux
May 2017 - May 2021
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:57 reviews, 97 commits, 101 PRs in 4 years
kernellinux-kernellinuxkernel-source
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