~/alexandru-leca $ whoami --verbose

I run engineering when shipping has stopped.

Hands on technical leader for European growth stage startups. Fourteen years of building, reviving, and shipping production systems. Currently CTO at Bright Spaces.

~/alexandru-leca/stats.conf
  • years_in_prod= 14// shipping since 2011
  • team_led_max= 20+// career high · across roles
  • delivery_cycle= 2d// was: weeks
  • cloud_saved= $4M/yr// single engagement · career high
Portrait of Alexandru Leca
CAM_01REC
bucharest26.05.26

~/alexandru-leca $ cat positioning.md

What I am hired for.

●/ specialty 01

Brownfield Revival

I take ownership of undocumented codebases handed over from external teams and bring them back to maintainability. I've done it more than once. It is the work I am most known for.

●/ specialty 02

Platform Engineering

Kubernetes, deployment pipelines, infra cost engineering. ~$4M/yr in cloud cost saved on a single client engagement, career high so far. The unglamorous work that decides whether your team ships or stalls.

●/ specialty 03

Engineering Leadership

Built and led a 20+ cross functional team of engineers and creatives. Multiple Head of Development tenures. Calm in a crisis, which is when most teams find out who they actually hired.

~/alexandru-leca/manifesto.txt

~/alexandru-leca $ cat manifesto.txt

The work I keep coming back to: removing the friction between people and the systems they build. Through process, automation, and architecture that actually holds up.

// Alexandru, on what he does

~/alexandru-leca $ cat about.md

The operator.

I work end-to-end: infrastructure, backend architecture, AI workflows, deployment environments, and the teams running them. I've led cross-functional engineering teams and set technical direction for whole orgs. I'm just as comfortable mapping a tangled legacy system as I am deciding where a growing product goes next.

# Core competencies

  • Cross-functional Team Leadership
  • Engineering Process Optimization
  • Technical Vision & Feasibility
  • Architectural Problem-Solving
  • Mentoring & Team Growth
  • Client-Facing Communication
  • Roadmap & Workload Planning

# Education

  • Bachelor of Science (BSc)

    'Titu Maiorescu' University, Bucharest

    Faculty of Information Technology

    Sep 2008 → Jul 2011

  • Assistant Analytic Programmer

    'I.N. Socolescu' Highschool, Bucharest

    Real Profile, Intensive Computer Science

    Sep 2004 → Jul 2008

# Languages

  • EnglishNative / Bilingual
  • RomanianNative

~/alexandru-leca $ git log --author=leca --since=2011

Recent engagements.

~/alexandru-leca $ git log --pretty=oneline --reverse

  1. a14c3f8

    HEADoct '24

    Chief Technology Officer @ Bright Spaces

    Scaled a 20+ person cross functional team spanning engineering and 3D. Cut delivery from weeks to under 2 days. Decoupled the core engine and built an agentic AI tooling layer over it.

    • #kubernetes
    • #agentic-ai
    • #babylonjs

  2. f29b1e0

    jun '23 → oct '24

    Principal Software Engineer @ Bright Spaces

    Hands on across the full stack. Owned the architectural decisions the CTO role now ships against.

    • #architecture
    • #full-stack

  3. b48d72c

    nov '22 → jun '23

    Principal Software Engineer @ Softbinator

    Inherited an undocumented services handover from an external team. Brought the system back to life and made it cheaper to run.

    • #brownfield
    • #cost-eng

  4. 9d7e421

    jun '22 → nov '22

    Senior Software Architect @ Softbinator

    Inherited legacy systems nobody understood anymore and made them maintainable. Then made them cheaper. Cloud spend down ~37% on services totalling ~$900K/month.

    • #architecture
    • #cost-eng

  5. 31aa9b5

    apr '21 → jun '22

    Head of Development @ Bright Spaces

    Brought process and consistency to an early stage team. Set the engineering baseline everything since has built on.

    • #team-building
    • #process

~/alexandru-leca $ ls -la skills/

Tools I reach for.

# Languages & Frameworks

  • Node.js
  • Python
  • Go
  • JavaScript / TypeScript
  • Vue
  • React
  • React Native
  • PHP

# Databases

  • PostgreSQL
  • MariaDB
  • MongoDB

# Infrastructure & DevOps

  • Kubernetes
  • Docker Swarm
  • Cloud
  • Service Migrations
  • Data Pipelines
  • ML Engineering
  • AI Ops
  • Traefik
  • WireGuard
  • Hetzner
  • AWS S3
  • Cloudflare
  • CI/CD
  • Redis
  • RabbitMQ

# Data & AI

  • Qdrant
  • vLLM
  • ONNX Runtime
  • Agentic AI systems
  • Embedding
  • Model fine-tuning
  • Dataset curation

# Architecture

  • Distributed systems
  • Microservices
  • 3D rendering pipelines (BabylonJS)
  • Platform engineering

~/alexandru-leca $ ls -la projects/

Currently open.

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  • #mcp
  • #semantic-search
  • #qdrant
  • #onnx
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  • #local-first
$ open ↗// source ↗

open to series A → B engagements

Building something ambitious, or untangling something that has grown messy?

I work with European growth stage startups as a hands on CTO, fractional or full time. Best fit: teams of 10 to 60 with a codebase that has started slowing them down.

~/alexandru-leca/contact.sh
  • $ email
  • $ linkedin/in/alexleca ↗
  • $ basedBucharest, ROEET
  • $ remoteyestravel for kickoffs
  • $ replywithin 24hweekdays