Vlad Ureche
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolVlad Ureche is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with 15 years of experience building compiler technology, JVM optimizations, and production-scale backend systems. He combined academic research (PhD-level work on miniboxing at EPFL that influenced JVM Valhalla discussions) with practical engineering at companies such as Google and Cyberhaven, shipping anti-abuse systems and kernel-space components. An active open-source contributor, he helped improve Scala 3’s build and CI infrastructure and authored the miniboxing project that can speed up Scala generics by up to 20x. Comfortable spanning research and product development, he brings deep expertise in programming languages, compilers, and big-data tooling, and a track record of turning low-level performance ideas into deployable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Programming Languages, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Programming Languages at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneColegiul National Mihai ViteazulBachelor, Systems: Compilers, Operating Systems and Distributed Systems, Bachelor, Systems: Compilers, Operating Systems and Distributed Systems at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Romanian, English, French
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Github Skills (12)
compiler10
sbt10
compiler-compiler10
devops10
build-automation10
scala10
travis-ci9
dotty9
eclipse-plugin6
staging6
plugin6
virtualization6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
scala/scala3
Jan 2014 - Feb 2014
The Scala 3 compiler, also known as Dotty.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:17 commits, 9 comments in 28 days
Contributions summary:Vlad contributed to the build infrastructure of the Scala 3 compiler, making changes to the build configuration files (Build.scala, build.sbt, and plugins.sbt). Their contributions included adjusting the classpath for running tests and the main application, and adding Travis CI integration. They also addressed error messages and other build-related configurations, indicating an involvement in continuous integration and improving the build process.
compilerscala3scaladottyepfl
scaladyno/scaladyno-plugin
Dec 2013 - Apr 2015
Contributions:23 commits, 2 pushes, 5 comments in 1 year 4 months
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