Raluca-elena Podiuc
Software Engineering Manager at WhatsApp Inc.
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolRaluca-elena Podiuc is a Software Engineering Manager with 15 years of hands-on experience building Android products and infrastructure at scale, currently leading the WhatsApp Android Consumer Product team from Mountain View. She combines deep low-level expertise (C/ASM, debugging, Linux) with large-scale backend experience (Hadoop, HBase, ZooKeeper) and an MSc in Artificial Intelligence from ENSTA ParisTech and Politehnica University. Her background spans mobile platform engineering at Facebook and WhatsApp, performance and IoT prototyping at Mozilla, and systems verification at Infineon, giving her a rare cross-domain perspective from firmware to consumer apps. Known for improving test and infrastructure velocity—such as cutting Adobe test runtimes dramatically—she blends rigorous engineering discipline with product-focused delivery. Colleagues describe her as a technically curious leader who mentors teams to ship robust, performance-sensitive features while keeping an eye on research-driven solutions.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BSc., Electrical Engineering and Computers, Scholarship student, BSc., Electrical Engineering and Computers, Scholarship student at Politehnica University of Bucharest, RomaniaApplied functional programming, Applied functional programming at Summer school Utrecht UniversityMSc., Artificial Intelligence, Second in class of 40., MSc., Artificial Intelligence, Second in class of 40. at ENSTA ParisTech, France & Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania
English, French
Github Skills (3)
frontend9
telemetry9
mozilla2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
raluca-elena/telemetry-analysis-base
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:82 commits in 16 days
raluca-elena/cheese
Mar 2011 - Aug 2011
Contributions:26 commits in 4 months
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