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Alexandru Badiu

Engineering leader▚London▚open to what's next

I'm Alex, an engineering leader based in London. I spent about thirteen years at one company as it grew from Demotix to Corbis to BENlabs, ending up as Senior Director of Engineering and leading teams across five countries. BENlabs wound down in 2026, so right now I'm looking for what's next in senior engineering or engineering leadership. In between I'm reviving old open-source projects and learning the theremin, slowly. Romanian by origin, easily bribed with strong coffee.

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Spotlight
AI content recognition. 600k+ media files processed, 100k+ brand placements found. Built solo, end to end.
// work
eslint-bamboo-formatter
A tiny ESLint reporter for Atlassian Bamboo. Small code, ended up used by NASA and a UK government research body.
// open source
Reading & Kobo tools
Small tools around reading: pushing Instapaper to a Kobo, EPUB from HTML, image processing. Being revived now.
// open source
viciosul_sid & a Playdate game
Chiptunes made in stretches, and a small game for the Playdate. The reason this whole site is a ZX Spectrum love letter.
// music
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