Alexandru Popescu

Current

Groovy committer at Groovy
Co-founder/CTO at InfoQ.com
TestNG co-founder at http://testng.org

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Past

Developer at WebWork/XWork
Technical Leader at EZLegacy

Education

Universitatea din Bucuresti
Academia de Studii Economice din Bucuresti

Connections

169 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Alexandru Popescu’s Summary

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

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

Groovy committer

Groovy

(Computer Software industry)

March 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

Groovy developer. Contributed support for annotations, bug fixes, performance improvements.
Co-founder/CTO

InfoQ.com

(Internet industry)

August 2005 — Present (3 years 3 months)
TestNG co-founder

http://testng.org

(Non-Profit; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2004 — Present (4 years 3 months)

TestNG co-founder, TestNG Eclipse plugin core developer
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:

Open Source, Testing, Aspect-Oriented Software Development, Information System Architecture, Application Architecture, 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/