Education and Career
Alexandrescu received an M.S. degree in electronics from Polytechnic University of Bucharest (Universitatea Politehnica din Bucureşti) in July 1994.
His first article was published in the C/C++ Users Journal in September 1998. He was a program manager for Netzip, Inc. from April 1999 until February 2000. When the company was acquired by RealNetworks, Inc., he served there as a development manager from February 2000 through September 2001.
Alexandrescu earned an M.S. (2003) and a Ph.D. (2009) in computer science from the University of Washington.
More recently, he has been assisting Walter Bright in the development of the D programming language. Alexandrescu released a book titled The D Programming Language in May 2010.
Alexandrescu, Herb Sutter, and Scott Meyers run C++ and Beyond, a small annual technical conference.
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