Alexandru Palade
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Educational Background:
2010 - – July 2010:
Romanian-Master of Science in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, University of Oslo,
Norway.
Faculty of Automatic Control and Computers, Politehnica University
Bucharest, Romania.
Professional Experience (Technical):
July 2012
Freelance work1
– present
keywords: C/C++, Python, backend development, API development and
integration, databases, exposed to wide range of technologies
July 2011
– October 2011
Software Engineer2 at Google Inc., Mountain View, USA
keywords: code optimization, memory profiling, large data sets, C++.
July 2009
– October 2009:
Site Reliability Engineer3 at Google Inc., New York, USA
keywords: high-quality code, reusability, metrics gathering, software
architecture, C++, Python.
July 2008
– November 2008:
Internship4 at SellerEngine Software, Romania
keywords: team work, Backend Software Engineer, scalable applications,
scalable databases, Python, PostgreSQL.
May 2007
– April 2008:
Freelance work5 on www.rentacoder.com
keywords: Top Coder distinction, web development, various projects,
PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, C.
October 2007
– March 2008:
Web Programmer6 for Sci Group, Norway
keywords: international e-commerce platform, multilingual, PHP, MySQL,
CMS, PEAR.
March 2007
– November 2007:
Web Developer at Leaders Romania N.G.O.
keywords: voluntary work, web development, web maintenance, PHP,
Mambo, MySQL.
2004
– December 2006:
IT Advisor at Clarus Impex SRL., Romania
keywords: network administration, FoxPro, Linux, Windows.
Professional Experience (Start-ups):
January 2012
Co-founder7 at Glazeon.com
– June 2012:
keywords: seed investment, development, managing developers, going
from idea to market
March 2011
– June 2011:
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Product Manager Intern8 at Skimlinks Ltd, London, UK
keywords: specifications development, managing
iterations, affiliate marketing, London start-up scene.
developers,
fast
Reference on request
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Reference to Vasile Butnaru – e-mail:-Reference to profile on rentacoder.com – http://loopback.ro/work/rac
Reference to Eivind Ingebrigsten, Norway – e-mail:-Reference on request
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September 2010
– December 2010:
Marketing Intern9 at Elecape AS, Norway
keywords: social media strategy, market research, business plan,
hands-on start-up experience.
June 2010
– August 2010:
Co-founder at Fingo.ro
keywords: failed start-up, social network, wrong direction, unclear goals,
learning process.
Open Source Work:
April 2010
– July 2010:
March 2008:
Extracurricular activities:
September 2010:
BlobSeer10
keywords: distributed data storage service, auto-adaptive module,
dynamic deployment.
DEX Online11
keywords: Firefox add-on, easy-access interface, Romanian dictionary.
Winner of Leaders for Romania12 contest
keywords: project Developing Entrepreneurship among Youths 13,
Romanian entrepreneurship, improvement points, 1-year scholarship.
May 2010:
Participant in Think Online program
keywords: online entrepreneurship, conferences, practical workshops,
presentation, pitch.
March 2010:
Participant in Business School 2010 program
keywords: entrepreneurship, intensive classes, start-ups difficulties,
training, real-world simulation game.
November
Participant in Leadership Education program
– December 2009:
keywords: leadership basics and values, emotional intelligence, time
management, positive thinking, authentic leadership.
December 2009:
Encouraging students to participate in abroad Internships
keywords: personal idea, motivational article 14, presentation, University
support, audience of 30+ students.
2008 – 2009:
Miscellaneous presentations
keywords: cryptography15, cloud computing16.
Computer Skills:
Programming
Languages:
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C, Python, PHP, Java, C++, (X)HTML, bash, JavaScript.
Databases:
PostgreSQL, MySQL, FoxPro.
Certificates:
PHP (Zend Certified Engineer17, April 2008), C/C++ (Ministry of Education
and Research, Romania, May 2006).
Reference to Siv-Rita Svendsen – email:-http://blobseer.gforge.inria.fr
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4756/
http://www.strada32.com/regulament_dp/ [Romanian]
http://loopback.ro/work/scholarship_leaders_for_romania.pdf [Romanian]
http://loopback.ro/work/intern [Romanian]
http://loopback.ro/work/bic
http://loopback.ro/work/cloud
Reference to Zend Yellow Pages – http://loopback.ro/work/zend
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