Valentin Iliescu
Senior Software Engineer, Office Test Automation For Apple
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolValentin Iliescu is a Senior Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building test automation, build infrastructure, and BI systems at Microsoft, currently focusing on Office test automation for Apple. He blends deep engineering skills across C#, Python, Azure, and front-end technologies with a strong emphasis on Agile practices, pair programming, and team coaching. Valentin has repeatedly led integration efforts—from Excel and Power BI reports to AppInsights-to-Cosmos pipelines—and has a track record of shipping high-impact features and prototypes that became product roadmap items. He’s also a proud organizer and mentor who reintroduced retrospectives, ran coding katas and code retreats, and started recurring knowledge-sharing events to raise team craft. Comfortable across platforms (mobile, on-prem, cloud) and stages of the lifecycle, he thrives in collaborative teams that continuously improve. An early independent developer, he once shipped a wildly popular .NET Compact Framework chess app, demonstrating an entrepreneurial streak and user-focused engineering.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
B. Sc. in Mathematics, Mathematics, B. Sc. in Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Bucharest
Github Skills (47)
dotnet9
linux9
xamarin9
csharp9
azure8
dotnet-core8
desktop8
atom-editor7
connectivity7
cross-platform7
database-connectivity7
iot7
graphviz6
asp-net6
windows6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
valentiniliescu/GraphVizNet
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
.NET wrapper for the command-line GraphViz native binaries.
Contributions:21 commits, 1 PR, 15 pushes in 1 year 4 months
graphvizdotnetnative-binariesbinaries
valentiniliescu/PowerBI-visuals
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:53 pushes, 6 branches in 4 months
power-biinfrastructure-testingdata-qualitytestinginfrastructure
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