Alex Ștefănescu

she/them (I use feminine pronouns in Romanian)

I'm a tech activist, hacker, and a community-building person.

I work for Data and Research Center, on OpenAleph, and other open-source investigative tooling, deployments and fun little experiments.

I'm part of a Romanian digital rights NGO called Asociația pentru Tehnologie și Internet, for which I try to act as a diligent watchdog, keeping an eye on the interplay between technology, public policy and the upholding of human rights.

I consult on securing data and communications for journalists and activists.

I subscribe to nohello. I really like it when folx ask for help figuring things out. Pair debugging makes me happy. The XY Problem is a gentle guide to crafting really good questions, that can spark collaboration.

You can contact me at alex dot stefanescu at protonmail dot com using this public GPG key).

I love writing opinion essays which occasionally slip into the "manifesto" aesthetic. The philosophy of technology, in the most broad sense, is my special interest.

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