Vlad Olaru

Software Engineer

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

Aeris

Software Engineer

January 2024 - January 2025

https://www.aeris.com/

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

Arnia Software

Software Engineer

June 2022 - January 2024

https://www.arnia.com/

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

Ammeon/Intive

Software Engineer

June 2021 - June 2022

https://intive.com/

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

Connections Technologies

Technical Team Lead

July 2020 - June 2021

https://connectionsconsult.ro

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

ING Tech

Dev Engineer

April 2016 - May 2019

https://ing.ro/ithub

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

Mindit Software

Junior Software Engineer

May 2015 - March 2016

https://www.mindit.io/

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

MHM Guitar Calendar

mhm-guitar-calendar.web.app

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

Cinemagic

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.

Foamenbot

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