🚗 Automotive media · ⚡ Android performance · ⚙️ Systems engineering
I build media experiences for cars.
My production work is centered on Android Automotive OS, media/HMI engineering, platform behavior, performance investigation and feature ownership. I enjoy the point where a polished interface stops being "just UI" and starts depending on lifecycle, process boundaries, playback state, focus, OEM integration and system behavior.
Outside production work, I use my personal projects to go further down the stack.
Android at the surface. Systems at the core.
| 🔭 Building | PandaWave, an AAOS media platform with Kotlin, Media3, Binder/AIDL and a Rust client-domain engine |
| 🦀 Exploring | Rust across native client logic and backend systems |
| 🧠 Going deeper | AOSP, Binder/IPC, performance and platform engineering |
| 🧰 Sharpening | Modern C++: lifetime, RAII, allocators, templates and custom containers |
| 🤖 Using AI for | Repository exploration, implementation support, debugging and review with Claude Code and Codex |
| Project | What it explores | |
|---|---|---|
| 🐼 PandaWave | Android Automotive media platform · Compose · Media3 · Binder/AIDL · JNI/FFI · Rust | Case study ↗ |
| 🌲 Canopy | Rust/Tonic media control plane · PostgreSQL · playback authorization · Nginx delivery | Case study ↗ |
| 🔌 canopy-api | Versioned Protobuf/gRPC contract · Buf · compatibility discipline | Case study ↗ |
| 🧱 C++ Mastery | Object lifetime · RAII · allocators · templates · custom containers · sanitizers | Case study ↗ |
| 🌐 Engineering Portfolio | Astro/TypeScript portfolio · technical case studies · SEO/AEO · performance | Live site ↗ |
Automotive: AAOS · HMI · Media3 · MediaSession · audio focus · rotary/focus navigation · RRO
Android: Kotlin · Java · Compose · Binder/AIDL · Services · Dagger/Hilt · RxJava
Performance: Perfetto · ATrace · Android Studio Profiler · adb/logcat · ANR analysis · LeakCanary
Systems: JNI/FFI · Rust · gRPC · Protobuf · PostgreSQL · C/C++ · CMake
- Make ownership and boundaries explicit.
- Follow performance evidence instead of guessing.
- Keep platform behavior part of the product design.
- Use AI as an engineering tool, not as a substitute for understanding the code.
- Prefer reproducible evidence over impressive-sounding claims.
More about the engineering behind the projects
PandaWave separates Android platform concerns from a Rust client-domain engine through Binder/AIDL and JNI/FFI.
Canopy keeps control decisions in gRPC while Nginx handles the actual media byte path.
canopy-api gives those independently developed systems one explicit, versioned contract.
C++ Mastery is where I deliberately practice the lower-level mechanics behind ownership, lifetime and generic containers.
- 🌐 Portfolio: adrianrusu.dev
- 💼 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/adrian-leontin-rusu
- ✉️ Email: adrianrusu016@gmail.com