# Alexandru Blidaru

> Software Engineer QE at Apple

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexandrublidaru

- Proficient in Python, C/C++, Matlab, JS, Java and C#
- Experienced with the ROS ecosystem, and Matlab robotics toolboxes
- Knowledgeable of various aspects of a robotics stack: mapping and localization, motion planning, robot vision, human-robot interaction
- Excellent communication and teamwork skills honed through multiple internship experiences.
- Working knowledge of electronic lab equipment, PCB design, Solidworks

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer QE @ Apple
Jan 2020 – Present | United States

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Univerisity of Waterloo
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Waterloo, Ontario
- Prototyped user interaction method to allow user to specify robot behavioural rules for a warehouse robot
- Began prototype implementation in RVIZ and ROS ecosystem

### Software Engineer Intern @ Nest
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Palo Alto
- Implemented new features on upcoming Nest devices and simulators
- Worked with PulseAudio and CoreAudio Frameworks
- Investigated interfacing the simulators and devices in order to aide in feature and application development

### Platform Architecture Video/Image Processing @ Apple
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Worked on the image processing architecture of the next generation of mobile chips.
- Extended the system to support higher quality formats and appropriate color space conversions and functions. 
- Created regression testing scripts to verify image integrity following changes to the codebase.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Endeca
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Created a modular and fully configurable performance testing suite for Oracle’s e-commerce platform
- Allowed for configuration of various features of the platform (user segments, product categories, generating request logs)
- Created internal RFC documentation, and worked closely with Project Management, as project would end up being used by multiple groups and for different functions

### Hardware and Software Developer @ Thalmic Labs
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
- Fixed and improved DIY-ed solder oven, originally made from a toaster oven.
- Created the API and technological framework for implementing the MYO with PC and Mobile systems that support HID protocols.
- Implemented framework on Windows (XP and up) that creates virtual devices (mouse, 3D mouse keyboard, game controller, joystick, touchscreen) and allows them to be controlled programmatically.

### Back-end Developer @ Peek
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | New York, NY
- Implemented user authentication system.
- Added security measures to protect against common attack forms (ex. replay attacks).
- Created messages, contacts, photos backup MVP service with NodeJS, mongoDB and Twitter Bootstrap.

### Embedded System and Mobile App Developer @ Pebble Technologies
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
- Researched and developed new features for the inPulse smartwatch (precursor to Pebble).
- Added features to BlackBerry app and created base framework for Android.
- Responded to customer issues, worked with dev community and evangelized product through demos, hackathons and presentations.
- Participated with Pebble in various YCombinator events (YC W11 batch).

### Research Internship Job @ Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
- Programmed a distributed data analysis framework on a an 8 computer cluster.
- OpenMP with C++ was used to communicate in the cluster environment.

### Research Internship Job @ Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
- Installed and Configured a 10 computer, 20 processor based cluster.
- Wrote program to find numerical solution for the BioHeat equation in 3D, using data given in a HDF5 file. BioHeat equation models thermal field in a tumor. Optimized the program for cluster use.
- Languages: Matlab and C++


## Education
### Master of Applied Science in Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering
University of Waterloo

### Bachelor in Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

### Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute - TOPS Program


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexandrublidaru
- Portfolio: http://alexblidaru.wordpress.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-29