Radu Velea
Principal Software Engineering Manager - Azure Compute at Microsoft
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolRadu Velea is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 12 years of experience designing and optimizing low-level systems for security and high performance. He combines deep C and assembly expertise—especially SIMD and Linux internals—with leadership across Azure Compute and security teams (Microsoft Defender for Endpoint), and a background in automotive and graphics platform optimization from Intel and Mentor Graphics. A PhD candidate in Information Security and former lecturer, he bridges academic rigor with pragmatic engineering and has led teams delivering trace/replay tools, bootloader and MMU optimizations, and cyber threat intelligence features. Based in Bucharest, he is known for squeezing performance from constrained platforms and mentoring the next generation of engineers through teaching and internal diversity initiatives.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Security, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Security at Military Technical Academy of BucharestColegiul National Carol IMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Network Security, 10, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Network Security, 10 at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, Italian, German
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Github Skills (33)
read-write10
audio10
codec10
compression10
ffmpeg9
gstreamer9
internet9
api9
vaapi9
pcapng8
manipulation8
chrome-extension8
youtube7
chrome7
pipeline7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rvelea/LightPcapNg
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
PcapNg read, write and manipulation API.
Contributions:23 commits, 4 PRs, 22 pushes in 6 years 6 months
manipulationapipythonread-writepcapng
rvelea/opus
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 13 days
compressionaudio-compressionaudiointernetffmpeg
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