Summary
Alexandru Șolot is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience spanning embedded firmware, product engineering, and startup leadership, currently building at Google after roles at Fitbit and early-stage ventures he co-founded. Trained at Cambridge (MPhil) and top-ranked Politehnica Bucharest, he combines rigorous academic grounding in control systems and computer science with practical skills in robotics, IoT, and low-level firmware. A competitive problem-solver—gold medalist in the National Physics Olympiad and winner of multiple hackathons—he enjoys turning hardware projects (ball-balancing plates, RGB VU meters) into polished products. As a GE Scholar Leaders alumnus and long-time organizer/leader, he brings both technical depth and a track record of launching teams and initiatives from concept to delivery.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, 9.9, Baccalaureate diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, 9.9 at National College Andrei Saguna
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Advanced Computer Science, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Advanced Computer Science at University of Cambridge
BEng, Automatic Control and Applied Computer Science, 10.0/10.0, BEng, Automatic Control and Applied Computer Science, 10.0/10.0 at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Romanian, English, French