Tudor Sandu is a Product Manager with 14 years of experience blending a software engineering background and a strong focus on UX to design and optimize user flows across consumer and B2B2C platforms. He has led product efforts at Bitdefender and UiPath, driving innovation projects and managing critical user services like subscriptions and authentication. Earlier roles span analytics-driven conversion optimization, solutions architecture, and backend engineering, giving him a rare mix of data-informed UX instincts and technical depth. An active open-source contributor, he has fixed bugs and added features to the widely-used Home Assistant core, including conversational components and climate control enhancements. A self-described perfectionist and puzzle solver, he pairs rigorous analytical skills with hands-on debugging experience and community leadership (Romanian Home Assistant language lead). Based in Romania, he consistently turns complex technical constraints into clear, user-centered product outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Colegiul National B.P. Hasdeu - Buzau
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
:house_with_garden: Open source home automation that puts local control and privacy first.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:61 reviews, 36 PRs, 135 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Tudor primarily contributed to bug fixes and implemented new features within the Home Assistant core. Their work included addressing issues related to conversation components, such as translation errors and handling empty sentence triggers. They also introduced new functionality, such as adding a scene.delete service and integrating script_mode parameters for custom intent scripts. Additionally, the user updated climate control features.
Contributions:33 commits, 12 PRs, 16 pushes in 12 days
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