Ovidiu Predescu
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Objective

To work in a challenging environment and build world-class software solutions.

Skills summary:

• Experienced writing code using Google's internal tools to process and serve large amounts of data: BigTable, MapReduce, GFS, and other proprietary Google technologies.
• Programming languages: Java, Objective-C, C++, C, JavaScript, Python, Perl, Tcl, Emacs Lisp, Scheme, Prolog, TeX/LaTeX, Expect, Postscript, Pascal, SQL, all of the Unix shell script utilities (sh, csh, sed, awk, tr etc.)
• XML technologies: strong XSLT knowledge
• Extensive network programming experience: from low level TCP/IP socket programming to using high level RPC systems for large distributed systems at Google scale.
• Databases: Google's Bigtable, SQL databases
• Solid theoretical background in Formal Languages, Compiling Theory. Experienced using various compiler tools: antlr, yacc/lex (bison/flex), Cocktail, PCCTS
• Strong experience in Object Oriented technology for software design and implementation.
• Operating systems: Linux, MacOS X

Professional Experience:

• January 2003 - May 2010 - Software Engineer, Google Inc.

  I worked on various Google projects: Ads frontend, Web search infrastructure, Maps, and Android.

• August 1998 - January 2003, Software Engineer, Hewlett Packard
  • October 1999 - January 2003, E-speak Operations followed by HP Middleware Division.

    I worked on HP's middleware technology in Java

  • August 1998 to October 1999 - California Language Laboratory

    I worked on porting, adapting and extending GDB, the GNU debugger, to HP-UX and Linux.

• January 1997 to August 1998 - Software Engineer, NET-Community.

  Worked on the GNUstep free software project.

• August 1996 to December 1996 - Software Engineer, contractor for NET-Community.

  I wrote GNUstep Database Library (Objective-C).

• December 1993 - July 1996 - Software Engineer, Medisoft and Xpro Soft '95 (former Medisoft), Romania.

  Medical software running on NeXTSTEP.

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Open Source Projects

• Work on extending Apache Cocoon with advanced control flow based on high level programming concepts like continuations.
• Work on Anteater, a functional testing framework for Web services, and in particular for asynchronous Web services.
• XSLT processor and debugger interface for Java XSLT processors, the currently supported processors being Xalan and Saxon. The user interface is written in Emacs Lisp for XEmacs/GNU Emacs.
• Responsible for the design and implementation of much of the early work on GNUStep: makefile package, GUI libraries running in Display Postscript on X-Windows.
• Official maintainer of the GNU Objective-C compiler and runtime between 1998 and 2001.
• Added support for the Boehms's garbage collector to the GNU Objective-C compiler and runtime, to libFoundation and to the GNUstep Database Library (GDL).
• GDBbundle, a graphical interface to GDB, the GNU debugger, on OPENSTEP systems. See a screenshot of the tool in action or take a look at the sources.
• libFoundation, an OpenStep compliant Foundation Kit library (Objective-C)

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Education:

1990 - 1995 University of Bucharest, Computer Science Department

Mathematician Diploma, specialization Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science Department. Master thesis: ``Object Oriented Programming of Distributed Applications. Distributed Objects in Objective-C.''

As student I became interested in functional languages, compiler theory and distributed systems. I learned Scheme and Prolog on Unix systems and Objective-C on NeXT systems. I used the Cocktail compiler construction toolkit to build an interpreter for a C-like language.

September 1983 - July 1987 High School for Mathematics and Physics, Computer Science Department

I started learning the basic computer algorithms like sorting, searching and lots of numerical algorithms. The languages used were Fortran IV, BASIC, Pascal and C.

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References available upon request


Last modified: Wed Jun 16 10:10:49 PDT 2010