SCREEN$Alexandru Badiu
Salut! 👋
I’m Alexandru, but you can call me Andu (pronounced as undo). I’m an engineer who’s led teams and still likes to build things; I spent the last decade at BENlabs, going from developer to Senior Director of Engineering and back to building hands-on.
These days I’m working on a problem that’s been haunting me for a long time: capturing what I find interesting and surfacing it again at the right time. That’s taken me from binaries running on e-ink hardware to web and desktop apps, with AI doing real work inside them rather than just helping me write them.
Elsewhere: a Playdate game, and music made out of things that were never meant to make it.
What I'm up to
July 2026Between roles since BENlabs wound down earlier this year. Looking for a senior IC or engineering leadership role. I do my best work close to the product and the people using it. If you're a charity or nonprofit and I can help, that too. Get in touch if that sounds like your team.
Learning Go and Swift, and finally building the things I never had time for. InstaKobo and InstaRM for read-later, Incunable for EPUBs, and Zare, a bookmarking tool that surfaces connections between the things I save and reminds me about the concert I bookmarked four months ago.
Slowly chipping away at a large Instapaper backlog with the help of InstaKobo (and soon, InstaRM), dogfooding my own tools while I'm at it.
Trying to learn (again) to play the theremin. If you have no idea what that is, it's the first electronic instrument, with a fascinating history. It also sounds, according to a YouTube comment, like 'dead people singing'. Also making music with odd things such as GameBoys and Commodore SID chips.
