VP of Engineering
2019 - PRESENTAurea- Managed a team of around 30 people and a development budget of about $3 million per year focused on migrating monolith Java projects, with 10+ million lines of code and 1+ million page views per day, to AWS with $5+ million hosting costs per year.
- Improved system architecture and reduced cloud costs by almost 50%.
- Handled 300+ system incidents per year, overseeing root cause analysis, setting up monitors, and reducing the number of incidents by more than 50% YoY.
- Improved processes to maximize efficiency and empower engineers to solve problems. Supervised the yearly delivery of 1,500+ development units and 600+ different product releases.
- Involved in the team's decisions in terms of architecture, infrastructure, and operations and applied the best and latest global technologies. Continuously deep dove to understand the platform's capabilities and underlying technologies.
- Improved the quality and velocity of the release process, going from monthly releases to multiple daily releases on demand. Improved the velocity of production releases by 55% and delivery of maintenance units by 60%.
Director and Head of Program Management
2016 - 2019Optiva- Created and led a remote team of 6-8 engineering managers and program managers.
- Defined KPIs and operational processes for a department with over 100 engineers and a yearly budget of around $10 million.
- Delivered 100+ projects per year, significantly improving a low-latency, high-throughput product that hundreds of millions of subscribers used.
- Managed Optiva's transformation from an on-premise, single-tenant, heavily customized multiple versions to a cloud, multi-tenant, single-version product.
- Improved the release cycle from yearly to weekly while maintaining the product's quality.
- Reported to senior management every week, first with manual and then automated reports.
Fintech Manager and Business Unit Head
2014 - 2016Telekom Romania- Led a payments business unit, started several initiatives, and created business cases to support each of them.
- Held several monthly presentations to management and the board of directors to outline new proposals and report on current initiatives updates.
- Created detailed project plans and supervised the implementation process for each new project.
- Managed several initiatives across two years, with a development cost of several million euros and estimated revenue of 50+ million euros over several years.
- Created the Telekom Banking vertical and founded a new bank in Romania by passporting the license of a Polish bank and integrated banking processes with existing telecommunications procedures.
Implementation, Product and Marketing Manager
2012 - 2014PayU Romania- Expanded the product range from less than five to over 10 new products.
- Managed a team of two experts involved in project management and implementation. Worked on all initiatives from initiation and business case creation through project development and implementation.
- Expanded the customer base, moving from one customer providing over 50% of the revenues to several big customers, neither being over 20%.
- Managed the implementation of the first major redesign of the payment user experience, combining several products into a much simpler UX.
Founder and CTO
2004 - 2012Web Studio Company- Ran an IT outsourcing company that made it into the top 100 companies worldwide in a marketplace of 300,000 competitors.
- Created and led remote teams of 30+ individual contractors.
- Delivered 100+ projects while maintaining customer satisfaction above 9/10.
- Led all the ongoing projects, including assigning work to teams such as UI or development, creating work breakdown items for the development team, tracking each work item, removing blockers, and ensuring it was done on time and within budget.