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Your engineers are excellent and nobody outside the building knows it. No one speaks at the conferences your candidates attend. Good internal ideas never travel. Meanwhile a competitor's staff engineer is on stage, and your recruiting bill quietly pays for it. That is a fixable problem, and it is not a marketing problem.

Public speaking is something he's a master at, putting his passion at next levels by stimulating more people to grow in that area as well.

Costin Busioc — Product Leader · TEDx Speaker · Forbes 30 Under 30 HM

This is a programme I run, not a theory I have

As Site Lead at Stripe I am accountable for the growth, culture and brand of the Bucharest site. The cultural infrastructure I stood up there includes engineering guilds, a mentoring programme, and public speaking cohorts — and it produced 50+ community events reaching more than 20,000 people.

I did the same thing at Adobe, where I built a company Branding Programme and ran a mentoring programme that reached roughly 180 pairs. Off Localhost is that work, packaged for your organisation.

Two ways I work

Model A

The cohort

A programme for your engineers and leaders. Nobody leaves with notes — everybody leaves with something published and something submitted.

  • Half-day intensive, then sessions across six weeks
  • Every participant submits a real conference CFP
  • Every participant publishes one piece
  • Each leaves with a personal visibility plan
Model B

Fractional

I own your engineering-brand function on an ongoing basis — the thing most companies want but can't justify a full-time hire for.

  • One to two days a month
  • Speaker bench and CFP pipeline
  • Twelve-month conference strategy
  • Executive presence coaching for your leads

What it's actually worth

Visibility is not vanity. An engineering org that speaks publicly recruits from a warmer pool, closes candidates faster, holds onto senior people who want a platform, and gets taken seriously by partners and press. The work is the same work either way — the difference is whether anyone outside your Slack ever hears about it.

Why me

Practitioner

I still do this for a living

50+ talks. TEDx. Closing keynote at AWS Community Day Romania. ELC Prague. How to Web. DevTalks. I am not teaching from a book.

Trained

And I was taught properly

Dale Carnegie certified in Public Speaking & Presentations, and Stanford GSB in Organizational Leadership. The method is transferable, not a personality trait.

Proven at scale

Built from zero, twice

Stories of the Web, a 500-member community I founded from nothing. And 28 published field notes — I ask people to do exactly what I do every week.

What people say about the teaching

"Tech savvy and yet able to express his knowledge in a manner that's accessible for the audience, be it technical or not. In a room of people, he has the leader energy."

  • Georgiana Denisa Ștefan — Senior Software Engineer, Adobe

"He is an excellent leader because he inspires everyone he interacts with. I watched Aleodor evolve from a great engineer to a great leader who really changed something around him."

  • Madalina Nitu — Senior Talent Partner, Adobe

"In my 10 years career working with a lot of teams, Aleodor was the most professional, giving amazing constructive feedback that helped me grow my skills a lot."

  • Tudor Papazoglu — Senior Product Designer, Adobe

Let's talk about who in your org should be on a stage

Thirty minutes. Bring the names of two or three people you think have something to say and we'll work out whether a cohort or a fractional arrangement fits.

Takes about a minute. It goes straight to my calendar with your answers attached, so we can skip the discovery small talk.

I take a small number of engagements alongside the Stripe role — usually two at a time.