Catalin Francu Email: cata@francu.com Web: http://catalin.francu.com Location: Bucharest, Romania Status Not actively looking for employment at this time, although I might be interested in contributing to free software projects. Current Projects Since 2019 Dignitas , founder and developer Dignitas is a collaborative fact-checking site for political statements. Since 2001 dexonline , founder and developer dexonline is the online Romanian dictionary. It digitizes prominent printed dictionaries. It gathered dozens of volunteers which I help coordinate. Currently knows 980,000 definitions and serves 30 million pages monthly. Work Experience 2012-2015 Tudor Vianu National College of Computer Science, Bucharest, Romania Taught a course in computer science to gifted students. Emphasis on algorithms and data structures, with occasional programming projects and selected topics. 2002-2006 Google, Mountain View, CA - Tech lead for Noogler, a web application used by new hires during their first week. - Developer of a project database web application. Keeps track of projects, people, allocations, weekly reports. Includes various reporting capabilities and limited task/project management functionality. - Wrote SiteInfo, a tool that traces a single URL through Google's crawling and indexing system. - (internship) Improved the PageRank by removing irrelevant links. Since 2002 Nilatac Colibri Antichess engines. Active 24/7 on Lichess . Extensive work to solve numerous openings. Opening book and endgame tables available for online querying. Skills * strong background in algorithms and data structures * languages: C/C++, Java, PHP * web development: Javascript, jQuery, Bootstrap, Smarty * databases: MySQL * operating systems: GNU/Linux Education 1999-2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Master of Engineering Thesis: Real-Time Scheduling for Java. GPA: 4.9 of 5. 1996-1999 Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania Three years in the Computer Science Department. GPA: 8.9 of 10. 1992-1996 High-School of Computer Science, Bucharest Romania Valedictorian Awards 2001 7th place at the ACM ICPC World Finals 1996 High-School: Silver Medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics Hobbies * chess (playing and programming, including variants) * music (theory and history)