Florin Radu graduated with an Engineering degree in Automation and Computer Science in 2007, earned his MSc in Systems Engineering in 2009, and completed his PhD in Systems Engineering in 2011. He has worked as a software engineer and consultant in the software industry for approximately 15 years. He has also been teaching at a technical university in Romania for 19 years, with a focus on software engineering, real-time systems and related computer engineering topics.