# George Rusu

> Software Engineer II @ Cisco

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

Passionate, product - driven engineer with interests in distributed computing, machine learning, and developing intuitive, user friendly consumer tech
Recruiters reach out via LinkedIn

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II - APIX @ Cisco
Jan 2024 – Present

### Software Engineer II - Data Platform @ Cisco
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States
Designed, built, maintained secure data pipelines handling Cisco Umbrella/Security Service Edge client analytics

### Software Engineer - Webex @ Cisco
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Jose, California, United States
REST API team
Designed and developed In-Meeting Events Microservice which processes Webex meeting events then produces and sends webhooks to public API users.

### Teaching Assistant @ Brown University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States
CSCI 1470 - Deep Learning
- Mentored three student groups (7 undergraduate and 3 graduate students) through final course project by providing instruction, debugging help, and by guiding students toward final deliverables.
- Instructed over 30 students in lab session, working through example problems, providing feedback, and explaining course material. 
- Graded Homeworks, provided feedback, and held debugging and conceptual hours to provide in-depth explanations to students.

### Software Engineer @ Tagg
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Designed and implemented user sign-up/login flow (generate and refresh FB/IG auth tokens, link Snapchat, TikTok, Twitter accounts), and forgot password feature that uses Twilio API to verify and. reset user’s password 
- Designed and implemented pipeline for image/video upload and streaming using AWS lambda and boto3 Improved upload time by 51% and found optimal video compression rate. 
- Incorporated feature to tag public users and friends in posts and post captions, as well as edit posts and rearrange tags 
- Refactored backend codebase to reduce bloat/reformat according to new style guidelines I created. Resulted in 17% overall speed increase in backend queries and server-side requests 
- Implemented user phone authentication using Twilio Python API and option to invite users to app via SMS

### Data Engineer @ TaggiD, Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Led 3 data scientists and collaborated with 5 SWEs to develop cross platform social media app 
- Developed deep learning model that recommends content to users using live data from multiple social media streams via collaborative filtering and sentiment analysis. Prompted 36% increase in relevance of posts based on in-app user feedback 
- Created boilerplate code and testing/development environments with Yarn, CocoaPods, NodeJS, Django


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Brown University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/georgerusu

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Last updated: 2026-03-29