Alexandru Placinta

Alexandru Placinta is a Senior Software Engineer at Ripple, specializing in Rust and C++, where responsibilities include maintaining cryptographic services for hardware security modules as part of the Custody team. Previously, Alexandru worked as a Rust Software Engineer at Nexthink, providing data for sales and product teams, and as a Research Assistant at Swisscom and Oracle, focusing on data collection and vulnerability detection. Early career experiences include a DevOps Engineer Intern position at Hootsuite, faculty roles at the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, and software development internships at Amazon, where significant contributions were made to benchmarking and security tools. Alexandru holds a Master's degree in Data Science from EPFL and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest.