About Me
Software engineer with 10 years of experience building robust backend systems and full-stack applications. Skilled in Java, Kotlin, Angular and Spring framework, with expertise in microservices and cloud platforms (GCP, Azure). A collaborative and adaptable developer who enjoys solving complex problems, mentoring teammates and turning ideas into reliable, user-focused software.
Experience
Contributing to the completion of a large microservice-based application for a global automobile manufacturer. This platform integrates connected vehicles with the manufacturer’s systems, enabling remote commands, map updates, and data synchronization. Among other things, I worked on:
- Handling secure data ingestion for vehicles, processing encrypted zip files to enable certificate-based secure communication
- Synchronizing databases across multiple regions to maintain consistency and availability
- Managing synchronous and asynchronous communication for data flow coordination between services
Java Spring Kubernetes GCP
Worked on a suite of B2B applications for an energy company in Germany, developing features for energy trading, consumption tracking, and data analysis. Key work involved:
- Creating reliable data flows for energy-related information and core business logic
- Collaborating on API designs to ensure smooth integration within enterprise systems
Kotlin Spring boot Angular Azure
As a full-stack engineer I worked on maintaining/improving an internal application portal which acted as an “infrastructure as a service” for a multinational networking and telecommunications company.
Kotlin Spring boot Angular
Coordinating the team to deliver the applications that the customer needs using Agile methodologies, doing my best to get some coding done as well during the day.
The main projects I have been focusing on are:
- Delivering a big microservices project for a telecommunications company that handles several business flows, integrating new microservices and platform with their existing ecosystem
- A platform built and designed from scratch by our team which put in contact companies that wanted to do POSM/marketing with different freelancers who could accept and work on such “missions”
Java Spring boot Angular
Connections Technologies
Full-Stack Software Engineer
May 2019 - July 2020
https://connectionsconsult.ro
Working on different applications either in a team or by myself as a full-stack developer:
- platform for a telecommunications company that handles different business flows using Java, Spring, Angular, on a microservices architecture
- facility management platform that handles ticketing cases, written in Kotlin, Spring, Angular
- oauth2 server and endpoints to allow clients to more easily integrate with the romanian banks that have exposed their APIs based on the the PSD2 standard
- an app for the government, which managed city hall’s organization flows and helped schools receive fruits/vegetables by different producer/distributors from the county
As a Dev Engineer in ING Tech I have worked in two different departments on different projects:
- Wholesale Banking department - built a REST API that was used to expose an application which was used for supply chain finance logic and started rewriting parts of that application from Legacy code to Java/Spring
- Security department - build APIs (REST, TCP, JMS) as a middle layer in a fraud detection flow. Also built components as means of authentication/authorization for ING Group’s several application as part of the main security tribe/flows
Java Kotlin Spring Cucumber Kafka Gatling/Scala
Developed web applications for different clients and learnt the basics of Java/Spring and some frontend development with whatever tools were “in fashion” back then (jQuery/CoffeeScript, SCSS, Grunt)
Fotonation
Internship
July 2015 - August 2015
I have participated at the intern ramp-up that Fotonation held for their interns. During these two months, we were taught by senior employees the basics of image programming, through 4 different modules: image processing, photography, C code optimisation and machine learning.
Education
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Bachelor's Degree
October 2014 - May 2018
Vasile Alecsandri National College
High School
September 2010 - May 2014
Projects
Calendar web app for booking guitar lessons
Web application for my guitar teacher’s students to book time and for him to administrate his time/business schedule and track the progress of the students. Reached 200 users this year! Booking my guitar lessons through my own app is a bit weird but I’m very proud of it!
Firebase + Angular
Business presentation website
Presentation website for a friend’s business
Tailwind CSS + plain JS
Restaurant's weekly menu mini web-app
Currently not live since the restaurant closed down. Firebase + Tailwind
University project
Application for booking tickets for movies, University project for Advanced Object Programming course.
Uses Maven, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Thymeleaf, Hibernate/JPA, MySql, Flyway. There are several bugs/bad practices of which I was aware of and thought I would get back to it and fix but never took the time, it’s funny looking back at it how things evolved in years.
University project
University project for “Software Development Methods”. We created a web application where you can configure products, make orders, book tables, request ingredients for current stocks and many more. We have used many technologies such as Spring Security, Spring MVC Framework, Thymeleaf, Maven, Flyway.
Languages
Romanian
native
English
Certified C1
German
Self-assessed B1-B2
When I'm not working
- sports: I try to get to the gym or to bouldering as often as I can to compensate for all the time spent sitting
- music: I practice guitar and enjoy improving on this hobby
- fiction literature
- boardgames, video games, RPGs, miniature painting