Aug 2020 – Jul 2021 · 11 mos

• Led the international engineering team located Mexico, Ukraine and Taiwan (over 120 engineers)
• Initiated and led the opening of the Ukraine subsidiary in a B.O.T. model with a local staffing provider
• Performed engineering due diligence for several potential development partners
• Led, as part of the leadership team, the definition and rollout of our multi-year strategy. This included becoming a values-driven organization (organization transformation).
• Led the development of roles and responsibilities of the engineering managers (guild leaders) to fit the new strategic vision.
• Drove cross-site collaboration and learning
• Drove the staffing and interviewing process with engineers and engineering managers across my international team.

Jan 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Uptime increased to 99.96% - 99.97% over a 6 months rolling window (including planned downtime, such as cloud migration or core databases major version upgrades)
• Moved critical infrastructure to Google Cloud and Kubernetes
• Improved monitoring and incident management processes
• Underwent several security audits from MGA, UKGC and as preparation for the Swedish Gambling License
• Developed the algorithms behind fixed odds betting on fantasy points
• Architecture updates for various products
• Moved to regular deployments and then to continuous deployment processes

Nov 2018 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 · 4 mos

Jul 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bucharest, Romania

• Managed a cross-functional team (engineering, project management, business analysts, QA) located in Bucharest (Romania), Lviv (Ukraine), Changsha (China) and HoChiMin City (Vietnam)
• Changed software development processes by introducing the concept of cross- functional squads for accelerated feature development
• Launched gradually in production the new OddsMatrix backend and back office and migrated several operators
• Increased focus on operations, observability and service ownership - monitoring, incident response (run-books, training for incident-response team, alerts, optimize for fast reaction and incident condition detection before the incident occurs) . Strong focus on releasing to production (performance, data integrity and consistency, automation) as opposed to releasing to QA (functional-only)
• Increased focus on evidence-based decision making: collection and analysis of various production metrics (NewRelic, Kibana, Grafana)
• The main target of the Odds Matrix platform was to achieve high scalability and modularization, as well as an above market-standard back office and customizable frontend. Performance targets were sub-second odds delay, as well as worldwide coverage, with over 27k monthly live events and 60k monthly total events. Clients were business partners, hosted in a multi-tenant setup.

Oct 2014 – Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bucharest

• 1AND1 is the largest Internet services and email provider in Germany, with approximately 54% of the German people having an account either on web.de or GMX, two brands owned by 1AND1.
• Managed directly a team of Software Development Managers, Program Manager, Product Owners and QA, architects - security and software.
• Managed the merging of two software development departments, with a total head count of about 60 people (internal employees and freelancers)
• Introduced project governance processes on several key vectors: schedule, risk and staffing, software architecture, security.
• Recruited 3 software development team leads.
• Brought to Bucharest a new project and building the team from scratch together with an outsourcing company.
• Created in Bucharest the role of security architect and recruited for this position
• Built in Bucharest the full business and technical ownership for one of company's flagship products (Online Office)
• Created the Portfolio Manager role tasked with improving project governance through data collection and continuous learning

Oct 2012 – Oct 2014 · 2 yrs

• Responsibilities:
• Acquisition of projects, development of collaboration with partners, definition of production policies, staffing, supervision of projects, identification of business opportunities, coaching managers and team members, conflict resolution.
• Transversal collaboration and management (definition and implementation of various HR policies, recruitment criteria for middle managers and technical staff, salary reviews, training needs, leadership development, studio strategy, budgets, various internal and external PR activities, etc...)
• Achievements:
• Setting up middle management (recruitment and internal promotion)
• Growth from 3 to 6 projects in parallel
• Staff stabilization (10 times reduction in voluntary departures)
• Stable partnerships and project road-map for the foreseeable future

Dec 2008 – Oct 2012 · 3 yrs 10 mos

• Highlights:
• Cross-functional teams (programming, art, design, dev-test) - up to 50 people
• Manager of team leaders
• Distributed, international teams
• Large number of international stakeholders (distributed in Bucharest, Kiev, Annecy, Montreal, Paris)
• Managed through all project phases, from initiation to shipment.
• Responsible for:
• Product vision
• Budgets and procurement
• Initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and controlling
• Partnerships and cross-site collaboration
• Staff development
• Closing

Jun 2006 – Mar 2007 · 9 mos

May 2006 – Dec 2008 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Mixed position: both technical and managerial
• Grew team from 4 to 12 programmers
• Managed a distributed team (Craiova and Bucharest)
• Introduction of new technologies in our pipeline (fully redesigned the animation, export and data editing software around the Granny3D API, Python for scripting menus, new scripted AI system)
• Performance appraisals for the programming team.

Oct 2004 – Dec 2005 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bucharest, Romania

• Worked on Tom Clancy's HAWX. Particle Engine and Editor and guided missile simulation

Aug 2002 – May 2004 · 1 yr 9 mos

• I worked as programmer, architect and support engineer for a phone recording system targeted at large scale enterprises and also a personnel monitoring tool (also by phone).