Radu Popovici
Senior Mobile Engineer at TaskRabbit
Timiș, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolRadu Popovici is a Senior Mobile Engineer with 13 years of professional experience and over a decade building production mobile apps, currently modernizing and re-architecting TaskRabbit’s React Native codebase. A React and React Native specialist and early TypeScript adopter, he combines deep front-end expertise with systems-level experience from C/C++ and embedded work at Siemens, enabling large-scale refactors and legacy modernization. He has led teams and delivery processes across startups and enterprises, shipping consumer and B2B apps, wallets with self-sovereign identity, and production-ready features like encrypted chat and GraphQL integrations. An active open-source contributor, his background also spans high-performance tooling and numeric computing—he contributed performance-focused fixes and tests to the well-known numba/numba project—and he’s the creator of Blender Power Nodes and a Houdini skeleton extraction algorithm. Ambitious to move into CTO or mobile lead roles, he pairs hands-on engineering with hiring, Agile coaching, and product-minded architectural leadership.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at High School Aurel Vlaicu LugojAutomatics and Industrial Informatics, Computers, Automatics and Industrial Informatics, Computers at Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara
English
Github Skills (10)
compiler10
compiler-compiler10
numba10
python10
numpy10
llvm10
testing10
data-structure9
data-structures9
algorithms8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
numba/numba
Aug 2020 - Sep 2020
NumPy aware dynamic Python compiler using LLVM
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 53 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Radu primarily contributed to the `numba/numba` project by modifying and testing core data model components. Their work involved removing recursion, optimizing data structures, and adding new tests for struct references, indicating a focus on improving the performance and correctness of the compiler. The user also addressed code style issues to remove flakes8 errors and merged branch changes. These contributions show a balanced focus on both feature development and code quality assurance.
cudapythonparallelnumpynumba
rpopovici/mesh-utils
Feb 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:10 releases, 36 commits, 46 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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