Competent Communicator

Private Aircraft Pilot

NLP Practitioner

Core Member

My 1st hackathon. Built PoC for www.carti.md book exchange portal.

Software Engineer

Founding member of Say WAT Toastmasters Club, promoting public speaking and leadership skills for fellow Googlers and the KW community.

Vice President Education

Started during the Open Source Weekend, the Drupal Developers Community is among the first thematic open source groups in Moldova. In 2013 co-founder Sergiu Nagailicit took over and incorporated as Drupal Moldova Association.

Founder & President

Managed youth organization's website and participated in the steering committee.

Technical Officer

Bachelors

Masters

Got a B2B portal for a leading USA broadcasting company back on track for its winter holidays release deadline.

Hired as Drupal 6 expert (at the moment, founder and acting president of Drupal Developer Community of Republic of Moldova).

Led frontend eng, in a full stack SCRUM team with 4 other people.

Senior Web Developer

PHP developer, quickly ramped up on Symphony Framework.

I my first 6 months on the team, we strongly exceeded expectations, and the customer decided to expand our team and start a 2nd project. I was promoted.

Junior Web Developer

Was given full tech ownership for designing and starting the build of a real estate app on the Symfony 2 framework (backend) and jQuery (frontend).

Ramped up and mentored a (recent transfer from QA department) junior developer.

Web Developer

Parental leave

Deployed ArcGIS Server for the national gas distribution company. Participated in the design of the J2EE client application.

Geographic Information System Engineer

Bootstrapped and led several internal projects, pioneering adoption of Angular JS and Typescript. Had significant contributions to the OAuth consent screens and customer login interface for Creative Cloud.

Led a few rounds of product prototyping with Node JS. Participated in several internal hackathons and business kickstart initiatives. Presented at Adobe's annual conference in SFO.

Frontend Engineer

Authored Firebase developer materials and presented at 40+ events (~20 per calendar year).

Took ownership of Firebase Community Support eng.
Managed and automated processes used by a team of 70+ agents.
Provided expert-level support in complex escalations.

Developer Relations Engineer

Fully designed and implemented a CKAN and Drupal powered Open Data Portal for Republic of Moldova, financed by a World Bank grant. https://date.gov.md/ckan/

Web Application Architect

I was invited to assembled a team to pioneer Drupal 7 development in Pentalog Brasov office. Interviewed and hired 4 developers to form the team. Documented Drupal development best practices and trained the team.

We designed and developed a job portal. Towards the end of summer I led a collaboration with Pentalog Hanoi team and helped them hit their own Drupal project deadlines.

Delivered several local presentations on MongoDB, UX, and Drupal best practices.

Worked as a full-stack SWE on Firebase Console, with a focus on the Angular front-end.
Promoted adoption of Ngrx and delivered several internal and external presentations.

Volunteered as Firebase speaker and mentor at multiple meetups, business events, and hackathons. Collaborated with Canada PR team to promote DevRel outreach around Ontario, focusing on high-school and university hackathons and the startup ecosystem.

Software Engineer III

Full stack developer on Business Catalyst.
Sever side stack: .NET and Java EE.
Front-end: jQuery, Underscore, Backbone, Bootstrap.

Computer Scientist

Started as iOS SWE for gFiber.
Led iOS mobile streaming engineering until gFiber got reorganized into an Alphabet entity.

🚀 AI for DevRel (May 2024+)
Gemini on Firebase - DevRel Lead (Dec 2023-April 2024)
Firebase Web Frameworks - DevRel Lead (June-Sep 2023)
Firebase Community Support - Eng Lead (April 2023-April 2024, Aug 2024+)

20% contributions: Cloud Platform, Terraform, LangChain, IoT

Personal: biohacking, NEAR blockchain, web3 Toronto

Alex Astrum

Building, breaking, or automating things