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 (73)
minecraft10
scripting-language10
minecraft-fabric10
cpp10
derived10
tower10
ping10
localhost10
linux9
firefox9
winston9
roblox-studio9
humio9
defense9
cmake9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
vladmarica/roblox-vscode-icon-theme
Sep 2022 - Nov 2024
A VSCode icon theme using Roblox Studio icons
Contributions:3 releases, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 years 2 months
Quintinity/TransitTracker
Mar 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:21 commits, 11 pushes, 1 issue in 1 year 6 months
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