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Georgia Preda

New York City,New York

Summary

Strategic Software Engineer equipped with great coding, design, debugging and project management abilities. Accomplishes project goals consistently with efficient, scalable solutions. Works great with team members and able to lead large teams.

Overview

8
8
years of professional experience

Work History

Software Engineer

Meta
New York City, NY
09.2022 - Current
  • Conducted extensive optimization and efficiency work that led to $30M savings.
  • Advocated for capacity scarcity, which led to getting funding for a full-time capacity team.
  • Acted as the main point of contact for capacity needs for the Creation Org.
  • Acted as TL for the capacity team, leading a team of 9 engineers.
  • Lead multi-half initiatives to improve the photos_infra codebase that led to years of engineering time saved company-wide.

Software Engineer

Meta
London
06.2020 - 09.2022
  • Developed extensive infrastructure to support Facebook and Workplace notifications.
  • Improved notifications reliability from 99.9% to 99.99%.
  • Optimized flow of notifications in order to save peak-time capacity.

Software Developer Engineer Intern, Prime Video Team

Amazon
London
07.2019 - 09.2019
  • Designed assistance capability for Prime Video on household screens
  • Enabled feedback submissions for issue reporting
  • Registered data in DynamoDB databases
  • Data fed into Amazon SageMaker for anomaly detection.
  • Implemented AWS services such as DynamoDB, API Gateway, Lambda, Glue to enhance system functionality

Summer Analyst Technology Intern – Quant Dev Team

Citibank
London
06.2018 - 08.2018
  • Completed numerous Python projects leveraging Bloomberg data for asset class analysis
  • Developed solutions allowing traders to review asset class trends via PDF files
  • Created tools that are incorporated in Citi's modules.

Software Developer

Microsoft Cities Unlocked
London
09.2017 - 05.2018
  • Enhanced travel experience for the visually impaired by developing an orientation app using Swift

Software Developer

Language Landscape
London
01.2017 - 05.2017
  • Produced software solution for raising linguistic preservation consciousness

Education

Master of ENGINEERING - COMPUTER SCIENCE

University College London
London
06.2020

Grigore Moisil National College of Informatics
Brasov, Romania
06.2016

Skills

  • Technical skills: C/C, Java, Hack, Python, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS, MySQL
  • Soft skills: problem solving, project management, communication, adaptability, prioritization, collaboration, critical thinking, business focus, influence, empathy

Projects

Have worked on a C++ simulator which mimics Starlink's satellite mesh composed of 12000 satellites. The project analyses packet reordering and demonstrates that current internet protocols would not be suitable for the project goals., The research paper delivered at the end of the project has received one of the highest marks awarded.

Languages

Native: Romanian. Fluent proficiency: English. Limited Working Proficiency: German

Accomplishments

  • Received the Computer Science Department Award
  • Became member of Mensa - The High IQ Society, September 2016
  • Mentions/ prizes at the Olympiad of Mathematics, Chess, Literate, Chemistry from 2012-2016
  • Award for Excellent Result at Engineering Summer University at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, August 2015

POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Executive director, March 2017 – May 2018, March 2019 – Present Organizing events for Romanians and Moldovans where they can network and learn about possible opportunities

Timeline

Software Engineer

Meta
09.2022 - Current

Software Engineer

Meta
06.2020 - 09.2022

Software Developer Engineer Intern, Prime Video Team

Amazon
07.2019 - 09.2019

Summer Analyst Technology Intern – Quant Dev Team

Citibank
06.2018 - 08.2018

Software Developer

Microsoft Cities Unlocked
09.2017 - 05.2018

Software Developer

Language Landscape
01.2017 - 05.2017

Master of ENGINEERING - COMPUTER SCIENCE

University College London

Grigore Moisil National College of Informatics
Georgia Preda