Mihai Preda
Age 27
Email: mihai.preda_AT_xyleme.com
Professional experience:
2000 - 2002 Senior Software Engineer,
Xyleme S.A.
- Participated in the design and development of the Xyleme XML repository,
using OO design, C++ & CORBA.
- Designed and developed incremental high-performance web crawler.
Experience with TCP/IP & HTTP.
- Original work resulted in US pattent application.
2000 Internship an INRIA
(French National Institute for Research in Informatics & Automatics)
Worked on web page change rate estimation and scheduling algorithms for
an incremental web crawler.
Developed incremental version of web page ranking algorithm similar to Google's.
1999 C++ programmer, Cap Gemini France.
1996 Designed, programmed and marketed "Mr. Psycho",
a program for automated psychology testing.
Education
1998 - 2000 Master in Computer Science "Semantics, Proof, Programming", ENS Cachan, France
1997 - 1999 Computer Science undergrad, Paris7 University, France
1994 - 1997 Computer Scinece undergrad, "Politehnica" University, Bucharest, Romania
1996 - 1997 Psychology undergrad, University of Bucharest, Romania
Awards
1994 Silver Medal, 4th International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI), Stockholm, Sweden
Languages
English, French, Romanian: fluent.
German, Polish: improving.
Skills
- Understands sofware design & architecture.
- Can write elegant & efficient code that works.
- Familiar with algorithms; has developed varios original algorithms.
- Deep working knowledge of C++, CORBA, TCP/IP, HTTP; familiar with Java.
- Creativity, intense concentration, adaptability & curiosity.