
CTO and Co-founder of InfoQ.com
Romania

CTO and Co-founder of InfoQ.com
Romania
I have about ten years of experience in software engineering, mostly spent on Java platform. At work, I enjoy offering technical leadership for teams with the main goal to deliver high quality software. I have been working in different types of environments and on various systems, and this offered me the possibility to widen my perspective on Java based solutions.
A big part of my spare time is spent on open source initiatives and bleeding-edge technologies, ranging from aspect oriented programming, testing to web frameworks (at this moment I am actively involved in the following projects: TestNG: http://testng.org, WebWork and XWork: http://opensymphony.com/webwork, Magnolia: http://www.magnolia.info).
I am also blogging in both English and Romanian. The Romanian blogs are about the future of web: http://koolapp.blogspot.com and about web 'made in Romania': http://dinfotoliu.ro.
Direct contact: the[dot]mindstorm[at]gmail[dot]com or alexander[dot]popescu[at]gmail[dot]com
Java, JEE, Dynamic Languages (Python/Ruby/Groovy), Design, Aspect-Oriented Programming, Open Source Strategy and Community Building, Domain-Driven Design, Object-Oriented Programming, Advanced Testing, Web and Enterprise Development, Application & System Architecture, Bytecode Manipulation and Compiler Design, Agile methodologies, Project Management
(Computer Software industry)
March 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Groovy developer. Contributed support for annotations, bug fixes, performance improvements.
(Internet industry)
August 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)
(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)
August 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)
TestNG co-founder, TestNG Eclipse plugin core developer
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2005 — 2007 (2 years)
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
October 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 11 months)
Mathematics, Computer Science 1999 — 2002
Advanced Economical Mathematics 1994 — 1999
Open Source, Testing, Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Information System Architecture, Application Architecture, Agile methodologies
TestNG: http://testng.org,
Groovy: http://groovy.codehaus.org.
WebWork/XWork/Struts2: http://opensymphony.com/webwork, http://opensymphony.com/xwork
Magnolia: http://www.magnolia.info,
DWR: http://getahead.ltd.uk/dwr/