Daniel Scurtu

Director of Engineering

Bucharest, Romania27 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in automotive software tools development.
Led teams creating innovative software analysis tools.
Strong background in embedded systems and software engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned expert in Automotive and Embedded Software Development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software DevelopmentEmbedded SoftwareWeb Development

Other Skills

DebuggingSoftware EngineeringRTOSEmbedded SystemsSoftware Analysis ToolsCode AnalysisPerformance AnalysisC-embedded driversSoftware Test FrameworkCMS DevelopmentPerlPHPJavaScriptDevice DriversARM

About

Senior engineering director for SW development, in the Automotive group at NXP. Throughout my years at NXP, my focus was on creating software development tools to simplify the programming of NXP embedded processors, spanning applications such as automotive, networking, and mobile devices. Master Degree in Computer Science from Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași, and member of the ITEA Steering Group.

Experience

27 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 1 mo

Average Tenure

6 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Itea office

ITEA Steering Group Member

Mar 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

Reviewer for projects submitted for financing via ITEA (an EUREKA cluster focused on SW innovation usually with an AI/ML component).
Find out more about ITEA as a program and about NXP participation in projects that received ITEA Award of Excellence in the videos attached.

Nxp semiconductors

3 roles

Senior Director of Engineering, Software Development, Automotive Software Tools

Promoted

Jul 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 10 mos

Engineering manager, coordinating teams in charge of creating software development tools to simplify and speed up programming of NXP automotive solutions.
Our portfolio has multiple products covering the embedded development spectrum from C-embedded programming to Model-Based Design Tools based on MATLAB/Simulink.
Check these videos for more details on some of our products.

Software DevelopmentEmbedded SoftwareDebuggingSoftware EngineeringRTOSEmbedded Systems

Manager Software Analysis Tools Team (Networking Processors)

Mar 2015 – Jun 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos

Functional manager coordinating development teams in charge with creating software analysis tools for QorIQ Power Architecture and ARM based processors. These tools allow both code analysis and NXP platforms' performance analysis. They were complex products with more than 10 patents generated during the development and my role was to manage the development and coordinate the integration of these components into several products like CodeWarrior Development Studio or S32 Design Studio.

Software Analysis ToolsCode AnalysisPerformance AnalysisSoftware Development

NXP Romania University Programs Manager

Mar 2011 – Present · 15 yrs 2 mos

Support NXP's engagement with universities across Romania.

Freescale semiconductors

6 roles

Product Manager CodeWarrior Power Architecture

Nov 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bucharest, Romania

Functional Manager CodeWarrior Debugger for Microcontrollers

Mar 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos · Bucharest, Romania

Manager Software Verification Team Networking Processors

Promoted

Feb 2010 – Mar 2012 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bucharest, Romania

Coordinated remote teams of engineers in charge with software verification.

Tech Lead Silicon Validation Team Networking Processors

Jan 2009 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bucharest, Romania

Tech Lead Platform Hardware Integration Team Mobile Phones Processors

Jul 2007 – Jan 2009 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bucharest, Romania

Tech lead for a software development team (called Platform Hardware Integration) in charge with developing a test framework for Freescale mobile devices hardware platforms and SoCs verification.

Embedded Software Engineer Wireless Mobile

Jul 2004 – Jul 2007 · 3 yrs · Bucharest, Romania

Wrote C-embedded drivers, worked on building and maintaining an in-house developed software test framework to verify Baseband - RF digital communication for Freescale processors. Focused on GSM and WCDMA standards.

C-embedded driversSoftware Test FrameworkEmbedded Software

Interco

Software Engineer

Sep 2003 – Jul 2004 · 10 mos · Sibiu County, Romania

Built and deployed a CMS (Content Management System) using mostly Perl, Php and Javascript. This framework was used to bring up several web sites for online commerce. Those were the early days of e-commerce in Romania with a lot of challenges.

CMS DevelopmentPerlPHPJavaScriptWeb Development

Gh. asachi technical university - “communication & technology of information center"

Network Engineer

Oct 2002 – Sep 2003 · 11 mos · Iasi County, Romania

Network engineer, part of a team of around 10 enthusiasts who took care of the Gh. Asachi university backbone network (more than 2000 nodes at the time connected to this network). Early days in Romania for WiFi and fiber optic technologies. I did everything from installing fiber optic in students' campus to configuring routers and services like DNS, Mail, firewalls etc... on Linux servers. Great learning, quite a lot of responsibility and almost no money :)

Melta

Programming Analyst

Nov 1998 – Oct 2002 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Sibiu County, Romania

Remote support. Most of my effort was in translating and explaining technical documentation from English to Romanian to support deployment of various embedded control systems in factories, homes and cars.