# Mihai Florea

> Software engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mihaiflorea

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Waymo
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Lead for “organic notifications” product engineering where I proposed and drove projects around understanding the impact of "organic" user interactions (i.e. likes, retweets, replies, mentions, etc.) for notifications and, based on those learnings, improve the push and in-app notification experience.
• Designed and built the “organic notifications” data pipeline providing business metrics to measure the impact of such notifications

### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
• Tech lead for the Notification Timeline team: Mentor and help level up a team of 6 engineers across SWE I - Senior SWE levels. Oversaw quarterly planning working closely with cross-functional partners across multiple teams to balance company and team objectives.
• Designed and built numerous components of the core infrastructure powering notifications at Twitter serving more than 600K requests/s and reducing the amount of engineering work required to launch a new notification from 1 month to under 1 day.

### Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California, United States
• worked on Promptbird, an internal platform that allowed prompting users in-app based on custom targeting, i.e. evergreen prompts, account security, special events, etc.
• transitioned to the NTab team and worked on generic notifications, a platform for simplifying the way new notification types are introduced at Twitter

### Research Assistant @ Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy (IMAR)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Bucharest, Romania
Researched parallel solutions for image segmentation algorithms related to Constrained parametric Min-Cut
and parametric maximum flow algorithms using GPU computing

### Software Engineer Intern @ Twitter
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco, California, United States
Worked as a full-stack engineer on an internal platform for serving backend controlled prompts to users

### Software Developer @ UTI
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Bucharest, Romania
Developed .NET applications for access control, inner management, ticket sales, video surveillance,
equipment monitoring in various contexts such as stadiums, public transport, highways, agriculture, etc.


## Education
### Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence
University of Bucharest

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Bucharest


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mihai-florea-281137241

---
Source: https://flows.cv/mihaiflorea
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/mihaiflorea/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12