Enjoying every moment of scaling the engineering culture. - Expanded the mobile engineering team: scaled the mobile team from a single team of 3 to 13 engineers across 3 teams.- Organizational leadership: Played a key role in building and improving the organizational structure of the engineering team.- Process optimization: Actively looking into creating and refining development processes. Giving the developers space to grow.- Mentorship and onboarding programs: Developed and enhanced mentorship and onboarding flows, reducing the learning curve for new engineers.- Productivity metrics: introduced software engineering productivity metrics to balance quantity and quality of work using DORA and SPACE metrics.- Promoted learning culture: strongly pushed for a culture of continuous learning and improvement.- Mentoring for professional growth: actively mentored 10 engineers, focusing on their growth, technical, and soft skills through regular 1:1 and internal processes.- Feedback and Performance Improvement: worked on the processes for team review and performance improvements. Setting up the system for continuous feedback.

Growing and leading a team of iOS & Android developers to make online payments easier. The main goal was to bring the two platforms closer together as ways of working and development processes.- Created and currently maintaining the CI/CD solution used by the Mobile developers.- Created and delivered the first SDKs to external partners- Implemented the frameworks for creating Unit Tests and UI tests on the mobile apps.- Gathering data for new features, planning the roadmap, sprint composition, architecture, and working on the implementation.- Working with a fully remote team, hiring, mentoring, and creating the processes that would motivate each to be the best at their work.- Improving the developer experience (devX) of our app through agile practices for our workflow and code

Growing and leading a team of iOS & Android developers to make online payments easier! Focusing on creating a scalable and easy-to-understand architecture while adopting the latest continuous delivery practices. 🤖 Created and currently maintaining the CI/CD solution used by the Mobile developers.👨‍💻 Transitioned sections of the app from Java to Kotlin and created current architecture.🧪 Started the Unit Tests & UI Tests initiatives and created the processes that would help developers write the tests📖 Improving the developer experience (devX) of our app through agile practices for our workflow and code🏆 Working with one of the best developers, designers, product owners, QA, and support teams.💪 Gathering data for new features, planning the roadmap, sprint composition, architecture, and working on the implementation.💻 Working with a fully remote team, hiring, mentoring, and creating the processes that would motivate each to be the best at their work.

Besides the big projects, I also work on small pet projects. These pet projects let me experiment and learn new things without affecting many users. ✏️ Learned how to write Android code while first developing "Stii sa scrii"📓 First tried the MVP Architecture while working on Bookly🖊️ Rewrote and used the MVVM Architecture and DI while working on "Stii sa scrii"🧠 Experimented with hybrid apps while working on "CelebRO"

Teaching dancing. It's awesome! I teach different dance moves for beginner and intermediate classes, prepared wedding dances and handled event planning.As well, in charge of marketing, developing business plans and online customer acquisitions.

Keywords: android, java, sockets, node.js, geolocation.

Worked for a brand management and business consultancy firm, a trusted partner for multiple businesses ranging from retail, SMBs and big enterprises.Was in charge of creating the MySQL database, backend of the products and part of the frontend (HTML, CSS & JS). After some time, got two other people on the project that would handle the backend and frontend part and I got to focus on developing the Android applications of the company.The rest of the details regarding my work here are under a NDA.

RCS & RDS is one of the biggest telecommunication operators in South-Eastern Europe and the largest cable and satellite television company in Romania. It offers cable television, cable internet, VOIP, 3G services and since 2004 satellite television.Worked as an Android developer, in charge of developing native applications like the DigiOnline app. Mainly worked on the following functionalities:- Video on demand streaming- Streaming from live TV- News reader- TV schedule

Microsoft Student Partner at Romanian American University in charge of Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 applications.Got my basic programming skill here and started to tutor other students when I was in the final year. Thought them about the platform life cycle, XAML, C#, best practices as well as the basis of object oriented programming.During my final year thought and prepared students with their practice papers (a one month internship funded by the university) successfully publishing 10 apps at the end of the month.While learning students, I started to discover the benefits of Window's Azure cloud service and implement their functionalities (noSQL storage, push notifications etc) for my applications.