Industry Guests

Răzvan Rughiniș - University Professor, Vice-Dean, Faculty of Automation and Computers, "Politehnica" University of Bucharest. Co-founder of Innovation Labs. Honorary member of the Code Sinaia team.

Engineering Executive | Industry Mentor | Advocate for STEM Education

Monica Ene-Pietrosanu is a seasoned engineering executive with over 25 years of global experience leading software development teams at top technology companies including Intel and Microsoft. 

As a long-time volunteer and organizer for Code Sinaia, Monica is dedicated to empowering the next generation of engineers by sharing her expertise and supporting hands-on learning opportunities in programming, AI, and software engineering. 

Sebastian Ene is a Kernel Software Engineer at Google UK, where he works on the pKVM (protected Kernel-based Virtual Machine)  hypervisor to enable isolated virtual machines on Android. He is passionate about systems security and embedded firmware. Outside of work, he enjoys cycling and swimming. 

Florin Teodorescu • Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft since 1998 - Bellevue, United States: • Windows Networking, Virtual Earth, Windows Phone, Bing, Maps & Geospatial.

• Computer Science teacher (volunteer) in the Lake Washington School District area since 2014.

• Founding member of INPROTED and Instructor at all editions of Code Sinaia.

Lucian Zigoneanu joined Intel in 2014 as a yield engineer contributing to continuous development of several defect classification and automation tools that support all technology nodes from 1270 to 1282. Prior to joining Intel, Lucian received his Ph. D degree in Electrical Engineering from Duke University. Outside of work, Lucian loves traveling and reading.

Stefan Gabriel earned an Honors Bachelor of Science in computer science with a minor in mathematics and completed his thesis, “Investigating Ensemble Neural Networks for Side-Channel Analysis,” under the mentorship of Dr. Vincent Immler, an assistant professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the College of Engineering OSU: Oregon State University. After graduation, he'll be pursuing a M.S. in Computer Science at Stanford University.