Emma Nedelcu

Engineering Manager

London, England, United Kingdom6 yrs 11 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led teams delivering systems at global scale.
Expert in Rust and Java for high-impact applications.
Strong focus on intentional growth and decision-making.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Software Engineer with expertise in B2C streaming technology and high-scale application development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Firmware DevelopmentRustNative Platform DevelopmentVideo Player IntegrationJavaData ExtractionSearch Service DevelopmentPython

Other Skills

API exposureAutomated validationBrand ManagementCC#C++DashDigital MarketingDockerEvent handlingFlaskGraphics APIsHTMLLeadershipLinux

About

Built and led teams delivering systems at global scale. • I write for engineers and managers who want to grow intentionally, make better decisions, and build careers with long-term discipline. Expect signal, not volume.

Experience

Amazon

4 roles

Engineering Manager - Prime Video Living Room Platform - Engine

Jan 2024 – Sep 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

• Led the Rust team (11 engineers) that provides the over-the-air updatable code layer for handling Prime Video's rendering on 100+M living room devices (smartTVs, game consoles, set top boxes). Our code interfaces with low level graphics APIs and handles events routed from the underlying native layer. Our improvements affect the fluidity of the whole Prime Video application.

RustGraphics APIsEvent handling

Engineering Manager - Prime Video Living Room Platform - Native Foundation

Promoted

Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 · 2 yrs

• Led the native platform team (12 engineers) that abstracts low-level details (eg. input handling, graphics, networking) of 100+M Living Room devices, exposing APIs to client developers.

Native platform developmentAPI exposure

Software Engineer - Prime Video Living Room Platform - Native Foundation

Mar 2021 – Jan 2022 · 10 mos

• Integrated a Swift-based video player as part of migrating a device from a deprecated platform to the latest native infrastructure, improving performance and feature scalability.

SwiftVideo player integration

Software Engineer - Prime Video Commerce - Personalization

Jul 2019 – Mar 2021 · 1 yr 8 mos

Architected and built the integration of Prime Video’s Java based subscription personalization service (90M DAU) with an ML system, increasing sign-up offers relevance and conversion potential.
Designed and launched an automated validation tool for international Prime Video launches, preventing compliance gaps by reporting missing legal text before deployment.

JavaMachine LearningAutomated validation

9fin

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2019 – Jul 2019 · 6 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Developed automated data extraction in Python for the US financial market for HTML data.

PythonData extraction

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern - Prime Video Financial Systems

Jun 2018 – Sep 2018 · 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Built a Java search service enabling searching over 10k encrypted data items.

JavaSearch serviceSearch service development

9fin

Software Engineer Intern

Jan 2018 – May 2018 · 4 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

• Improved & built internal Python applications that are using Flask, Docker & PostgreSQL.

PythonFlaskDockerPostgreSQL

Sandtable

Software Engineer Intern

Jul 2017 – Sep 2017 · 2 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Built 2 internal Python applications using Flask, Dash, MongoDB.
Performed data analysis on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances' live price history.

PythonFlaskDashMongoDB

King's college london

Research Intern

Jun 2016 – Jul 2016 · 1 mo · London, England, United Kingdom

• Set up 2 TurtleBot robots using software developed with Robot Operating System (ROS).

Various companies

Customer Service positions

Dec 2011 – Jul 2017 · 5 yrs 7 mos

Supermarket Assistant (Waitrose, 2016-2017)
Waitress (Off to Work, 2015-2016)
Promoter positions (Kronbun, Scandia, Work & Travel USA, Mega Events, GRB, 2011-2015)