Alexandru Popescu

Current

Founder at The.DailyCloud.net
Co-founder/CTO at InfoQ.com
TestNG co-founder at http://testng.org

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Past

Groovy committer at Groovy
Developer at WebWork/XWork
Technical Leader at EZLegacy

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Education

Universitatea din Bucuresti
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti

Connections

247 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Alexandru Popescu’s Summary

I have more than ten years of experience in software engineering, mostly spent on the Java platform, but also playing with a couple of dynamic languages. 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 large scale applications.

I am a geek on the internets. I love the web and the world wide web is still one of the best (if not the best) large scale application I've seen to this point.

Some of my spare time is spent on open source initiatives and bleeding-edge technologies, ranging from aspect oriented programming, dynamic and exotic languages, 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 maintain a blog about significant web, cloud and software architecture, a flavor of tech startup http://jots.mypopescu.com.

Direct contact: alexander[dot]popescu[at]gmail[dot]com

Alexandru Popescu’s Specialties:

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

Alexandru Popescu’s Experience

Founder

The.DailyCloud.net

(Internet industry)

June 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Co-founder/CTO

InfoQ.com

(Internet industry)

August 2005 — Present (4 years 4 months)
TestNG co-founder

http://testng.org

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2004 — Present (5 years 4 months)

TestNG co-founder, TestNG Eclipse plugin core developer
Groovy committer

Groovy

(Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 10 months)

Groovy developer. Contributed support for annotations, bug fixes, performance improvements.
Developer

WebWork/XWork

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2007 (2 years )
Technical Leader

EZLegacy

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

October 2003 — August 2005 (1 year 11 months)

Alexandru Popescu’s Education

Universitatea din Bucuresti

Mathematics, Computer Science 1999 — 2002

Activities and Societies:

Computer Science studies, Advanced mathematics
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti

Advanced Economical Mathematics 1994 — 1999

Activities and Societies:

Risk theory, Game theory, Advanced Economical Mathematics

Additional Information

Alexandru Popescu’s Websites:

Alexandru Popescu’s Interests:

Cloud computing, Information System Architecture, Application Architecture, Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Open Source, Testing, Agile methodologies

Alexandru Popescu’s Groups:

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/