ar.Adrian Rusu
GitHub Résumé
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Engineering for
the real-world drive.

Production automotive media, where platform behavior, product expectations and user experience meet.

AscentCore

Aug 2023 — Present

SiriusXM engagement
Automotive media HMI

Senior Android /
AAOS Developer

I develop and own features for a production Android Automotive media HMI, working across media integration, automotive interaction, performance investigation, OEM behavior and a mature Kotlin/Java codebase.

Media

  • MediaSession & MediaBrowser
  • Media API
  • Audio focus
  • Playback queues
  • ContentProvider

Automotive

  • Rotary / DPAD
  • Steering-wheel controls
  • UX restrictions
  • RRO
  • OEM / platform variants

Performance

  • Perfetto · ATrace · Android Profiler
  • ANR investigation · LeakCanary
  • Startup · rendering · jank · memory

Leadership

  • Feature ownership
  • Code / PR reviews
  • Onboarding / buddy work
  • Technical interviews
Engineering stack
Kotlin · Java · XML · Custom Views · RecyclerView · RxJava · Dagger 2 · Gradle · Jenkins · Mockito · Espresso · Gherkin
Cross-functional work
QA · Middleware · Backend · Product · Architecture
AI-assisted engineering
Claude · Codex · reusable GitHub/Jira workflow skills
Endava

Nov 2021 — Jun 2023

Android Developer

Internship
Oct 2021 — Nov 2021

The Android foundation

I built Android applications in Java and Kotlin before moving into senior automotive media work.

POS and hardware integration

A point-of-sale solution combining BLE/payment hardware, WebView flows, encrypted offline transactions and synchronization.

Early automotive work

An internal Android Automotive project covering automotive UI, maps/navigation and text-to-speech integration.

FROM PRODUCTION TO PERSONAL EXPLORATION

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