Tudor Popa
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Czechia
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Top SchoolTudor Popa is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with nine years of formal experience and a deep history building cloud-native platforms, design systems, and ML-driven products. He leads Fluent UI React v9, driving a model-first design system and integrating LLM-powered tooling, graph-augmented knowledge, and agentic workflows to redefine developer experiences. Previously a CTO and co-founder of a PaaS company, he architected distributed microservices and ML prediction systems serving multiple international markets and scaled engineering teams end-to-end. Tudor combines hands-on technical breadth—from frontend component architecture to backend infrastructure—with a passion for building high-trust engineering cultures and developing technical leaders. He’s particularly focused on turning emerging AI capabilities into practical developer leverage, often by embedding knowledge graphs and agentic flows directly into platform workflows.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Mathematics, Computer Science, Bachelor, Mathematics, Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
classifier10
bots9
nlp8
sentiment8
sentiment-analysis8
browser8
extraction8
entity-extraction8
entity8
server8
architecture7
nodejs7
javascript7
natural-language-processing7
conversational-ai7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
doidor/.dotfiles
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 150 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years
doidor/resume
Jan 2019 - Nov 2023
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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