Jul 2016 – Feb 2019 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Strategic IT Leadership: Spearheaded the design and implementation of all IT solutions including CRM and ERP systems, setting the technological foundation for the company.
• Operational Innovation: Applied technical expertise to enhance the operational capabilities of a traditional logistics company, aiming to integrate more tech-driven processes.
• Startup Development: Collaborated closely with a co-founder who brought industry-specific knowledge, blending traditional logistics experience with innovative tech solutions.
• Pioneering Technology Integration: Developed and integrated advanced IT solutions to streamline operations and enhance service delivery, setting a foundation for potential future transformations.

Oct 2015 – May 2018 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Remote

• End-to-End Solution Design and Implementation: Collaborated with multiple clients across various industries to design and implement comprehensive solutions rapidly using AWS, leveraging diverse programming languages and frameworks. Specialized in delivering functional systems within days or weeks, significantly reducing traditional deployment times.
• Strategic Use of Technology: Masterfully balanced the use of AWS services and open-source tools to optimize return on investment and operational costs, including both AWS expenses and ongoing maintenance.
• Project Execution and Management: Set up robust AWS infrastructure tailored to specific business needs—ranging from auto-scaling groups and Elastic Beanstalk to container management and Lambda functions.
• Integrated REST APIs using Java Spring, AWS API Gateway, and Flask, connecting seamlessly with existing data sources and APIs such as Google Docs and various CRMs.
• Data Management and Workflow Integration: Configured and extended database solutions using AWS RDS and Elasticsearch, aligning with existing workflows often managed with Apache Camel.
• Security and Maintenance: Ensured high availability, multi-AZ deployments and rigorous security through careful management of security profiles and IAM, utilizing terraform for AWS setup and management. Integrated ELK stack for enhanced logging, facilitating easier maintenance and debugging.
• Automation and Continuous Integration: Automated the entire software lifecycle using Gradle, alongside various CI tools including Jenkins, AWS Code Pipeline, and Code Deploy, ensuring efficient and reliable software delivery processes.

Oct 2014 – Sep 2016 · 1 yr 11 mos · remote · Remote

• Cloud Systems Expertise: Specialized in architecting and scaling a cloud-based distributed system for source code analysis, build, and testing services, catering to Fortune 500 companies. Gained deep insights into customer needs, environments, and use cases to deliver tailored solutions.
• Technical and Architectural Leadership: Owned the technical delivery and architectural development of key features and products. Ensured scalability, fault tolerance, and optimized hosting costs to meet rigorous performance standards.
• Quality and Automation Enhancement: Upheld a high-quality standard through meticulous peer reviews. Enhanced automation across the continuous delivery pipeline to support consistent weekly releases.
• Critical Issue Resolution: Took personal accountability for resolving the most challenging technical issues and support queries, ensuring customer satisfaction and system reliability.
• Hands-On Technical Delivery: Directly contributed to the technical delivery of multiple services and APIs, dedicating 80% of my time to hands-on development using Java, Groovy, Python, and various AWS services (EC2, SQS, RedShift, RDS, Lambda). Utilized Docker and Docker-compose in a microservices-like environment.
• Team Leadership and Project Management: Organized and led a team dedicated to these objectives, managing 20% of my time to oversee priorities, task breakdown, requirement analysis, and backlog organization. Facilitated collaboration across a globally distributed team spanning three continents.
• Remote Work Excellence: Successfully navigated the challenges of a 100% remote position, ensuring effective communication and project alignment with colleagues distributed across multiple time zones.

Feb 2014 – Oct 2014 · 8 mos · Cluj County, Romania

• Strategic Product Leadership: Served as the Product Owner in the Scrum process for key areas of Server Automation, focusing on infrastructure provisioning and remote execution services. Collaboratively worked with product managers and customers to convert complex requirements into actionable development backlogs, ensuring broad applicability and maintaining product integrity.
• Architectural Vision and Implementation: Led the long-term architectural strategies and technology refresh initiatives. Designed and defined innovative solutions to enhance product functionality, usability, and efficiency using the most appropriate technology stacks.
• Domain and Technical Expertise: Acted as the domain and technical authority, providing crucial insights into IPv6, cloud, and datacenter technologies. Resolved complex technical issues and was the final point of escalation for critical customer challenges in high-impact environments.
• Documentation and Communication: Collaborated with the information engineering team to produce high-quality product documentation and white papers, personally authoring significant portions. Ensured accuracy and comprehensiveness of technical content.
• Innovative Problem Solving: Proactively identified customer needs and spearheaded the integration of innovative solutions into the product to better serve customer demands.
• Development Process Enhancement: Championed new development methodologies and tools that increased team productivity and product quality. Played a key role in evangelizing these practices within the team.
• Recruitment and Team Building: Partnered with HR to enhance recruiting efforts, conducted interviews, and helped shape the technical team to support strategic goals.

Jul 2010 – Feb 2014 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Cluj County, Romania

• Technical Leadership and Agile Coaching: Served as the technical lead and agile coach, driving advancements in HP Server Automation and HP Insight Control Server Provisioning. Stepped up to cover architectural responsibilities, significantly impacting the design of numerous features.
• Leading by Example: Fostered a high-performance team environment by solving complex technical challenges, encouraging open dialogue, and continuously seeking to enhance the development process.
• Hands-On Technical Implementation: Developed various features across a broad technological stack, employing multiple frameworks and programming languages, demonstrating a commitment to hands-on leadership.
• Quality Assurance Innovations: Elevated the quality standards by designing and implementing an end-to-end testing framework and introducing the team to test-driven development (TDD).
• Proactive Quality Focus: Exceeded typical QA engineer contributions by identifying and resolving a significant number of bugs, underscoring a strong dedication to product quality.
• Code Review and Collaboration: Actively engaged in code reviews, consistently proposing improvements and fostering a culture of learning and mutual feedback among peers.
• QA Team Collaboration: Worked closely with the QA team to develop and review test cases, ensuring comprehensive coverage and high standards of software reliability.

Jul 2008 – Jul 2010 · 2 yrs · Cluj County, Romania

• Database Development for Big Data: Engineered robust databases capable of storing billions of customer reports generated by various products. Enhanced the accessibility and utility of this data by enabling developers to extract meaningful insights through both template-based and ad-hoc reporting.
• Impact Analysis Systems: Implemented advanced systems that utilize customer data to analyze and predict the impacts of product changes on the user base, aiding strategic decision-making.
• Distributed Systems Architect: Designed, implemented, and scaled distributed test automation and security analysis systems for internal applications. Ensured these systems supported extensive testing needs and maintained stringent security standards.

Oct 2006 – Jul 2008 · 1 yr 9 mos · remote

• Small projects mostly via freelancer website rentacoder.com for anything web or Internet related. Tasks ranged from simple content management systems to web crawlers and search engines for blogs and other social data.