Vlad Marica
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Marica is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building Android and location services at Google, currently focused on Google Play Services and Android authentication. His career blends repeated internships and full-time roles at top tech firms—Google, Bloomberg, and Microsoft—where he has shifted research prototypes (WiFi/indoor location) into production-grade features. Based in Chicago and finishing a Computer Science degree at the University of New Brunswick, he combines strong academic foundations with hands-on systems engineering across mobile, authentication, and account transfer domains. Known for returning to teams as a trusted contributor, he brings institutional memory and deep product knowledge that accelerates delivery. Vlad’s trajectory reflects a pattern of tackling hard systems problems at scale while mentoring younger engineers from his early TA and intern experiences.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of New Brunswick
English, Romanian
Github Skills (47)
minecraft10
tower10
localhost10
windows10
forge10
defense10
scripting-language10
roblox10
firefox10
chrome10
roblox-studio10
logger9
ios9
humio9
linux9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
vladmarica/energy-meters
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
A Minecraft mod that adds energy meters for FE, RF, MJ, and EU
Contributions:3 releases, 30 commits, 16 pushes in 18 days
minecraftminecraft-mod
Quintinity/TransitTracker
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 11 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 6 months
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