SCREEN$Me, in 30 seconds
Alexandru Badiu
Engineer▚London
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 in the product, not just in my editor.
What I'm up to lately is on the now page.
Elsewhere: a Playdate game, and music made out of things that were never meant to make it.
AI brand placement pipeline
600k+ media files, 100k+ placements resolved and scored, with multi-modal LLMs grading and describing each scene. Won Netflix's evaluation and brought them on as a client.
// work
Multi-source media analytics platform
Media analytics across 1.5M+ titles from Nielsen, Gracenote, Luminate and YouGov. Replaced a $13k/month system with one running at $600.
// work
InstaKobo & InstaRM
Read your Instapaper queue on a Kobo, with highlights synced back. Runs on the device or your desktop. reMarkable version in progress.
// open source
eslint-bamboo-formatter
A tiny ESLint reporter for Atlassian Bamboo. Barely any code, and it quietly ended up used by NASA and a UK government research body.
// open source
Quarto & Quarto Go
EPUB and KEPUB generation with zero native dependencies, in JavaScript and Go. The same library twice, because I needed it in both. Both are in use across my own reading tools.
// open source
Imagecache Sharp
Node image processing on top of sharp: define presets as chains of resize, watermark, blur and so on. Named after Drupal imagecache, which is where the idea came from.
// open source
Sprites from Glug Glug (CRL, 1984), the game that started it. Everything else is an ICE Felix HC 88 wearing a website.
