Stefan-Daniel Petcu

CEO

London, England, United Kingdom12 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in bridging product and tech teams.
Strong advocate for clean code and sustainable growth.
Proven track record in delivering high-availability APIs.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech Full-Stack Developer with a focus on Agile methodologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Full-stack DevelopmentAgile Development

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)Cross-functional Team LeadershipDatabase DesignDevOpsDockerDomain-Driven Design (DDD)EnglishGitGitHubHTMLHTML5JUnitJava

About

Hey, I'm Stefan. I'm a software developer that's passionate about doing what matters. Throughout my career, my perspective on what truly matters in software development has changed and evolved. Early in my career, I focused on delivering business requirements quickly, without asking too many questions. Later, I prioritised writing "clean code", and crafting SOLID masterpieces. Today, my goal is to deliver "the right things" in "the right way", on time, while building meaningful relationships with my peers. I spend a significant part of my role being the glue between product-oriented folks and techies; between teams that work in closely-related domains. I recognise that today's new code becomes tomorrow's tech debt and I try to balance short delivery cycles with building evolutionary architectures. I harp on dogfooding to bring user and developer experience to the fore. I try to ask more questions than I answer – both to learn and to teach. I firmly believe in collaboration and acknowledging the contributions of others. It brings me joy to give credit where it's due and to foster people's growth within their respective roles.

Experience

Jpmorgan chase & co.

Lead Software Engineer, VP

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 3 mos · London, England, United Kingdom · Hybrid

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Technical Lead

Jan 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · London, England, United Kingdom

Tech lead of the Open Banking PISP platform.

JavaPresentation SkillsFull-Stack DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipJavaScriptReact.js+10

Thoughtworks

Senior Consultant

Sep 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 3 mos · London, United Kingdom · Hybrid

Senior Consultant at ThoughtWorks

JavaCascading Style Sheets (CSS)MySQLHTML5Full-Stack DevelopmentJavaScript+10

Worldfirst

Senior PHP Developer

Dec 2017 – Aug 2018 · 8 mos · London, United Kingdom

Help with migrating from legacy monolithic applications to an SOA-style system based on the Domain-Driven Design guidelines.
Help the teams at WorldFirst organise their codebases and workflows.
Help instil a culture of continuous learning and sustainable growth and improvement.

Agile DevelopmentUnit Testing

Docler holding luxembourg

PHP Developer

Apr 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 7 mos · Luxembourg

My SCRUM team and I work to develop high-availability APIs in a Micro Service style architecture, which has to support several million unique visitors a day.
Over the course of my first year working here, our team has introduced PHP 7 and Symfony components to the company and achieved a very high rate of feature delivery.

Agile DevelopmentUnit Testing

Horizon it

PHP Development Consultant

Aug 2015 – Apr 2016 · 8 mos · Bucharest, Romania

I work to develop or improve tools and reports used by the company or its customers.
As a fresh employee working on existing applications in order to get acquainted with the system, I improved the loading speed of one of the most used reports by more than 90% - the people using it were thrilled!
I've later worked alongside my SCRUM team to develop two applications featuring financial tools and reports for use inside the company.
I also design mini-courses complete with homework for my team members, which I then deliver in a presentation-like setup. I consult with the team leader, in an effort to perpetually increase our team's performance.
Besides the mini-courses and the usual programmer's work, I review as much of my co-worker's code as time allows and offer them suggestions and support for improvement. Most of my extra time goes into researching and experimenting with technologies and techniques to increase the performance of our applications and ourselves.

Unit Testing

Vapan consulting

PHP Programmer

Oct 2014 – Jul 2015 · 9 mos · Bucharest, Romania

My projects at this company included developing custom CMS platforms using CakePHP and developing/maintaining and refactoring existing platforms (some of which were legacy).
During my work here I've learned much about the MVC architecture, jQuery and AJAX, Bootstrap and much more.
I have also improved my skills with PHP and MySQL and experienced working with multiple databases (of different types).

Dezibel media srl

PHP Programmer

Nov 2012 – Oct 2013 · 11 mos · Bucharest, Romania

CMS implementation and customization, mostly interface changes and some functional tools implementations on osCommerce, Joomla, WordPress and PrestaShop.