Adrian Popescu Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Barcelona, Catalonia, Es

Overall achievements:- Leading a core team focused on payments, part of the Fintech division, with up to 8 backend engineers- Successfully mentored and provided opportunities to colleagues inside the team to grow or to identify furthee opportunities for development- Key driver of metric quality conversations, ensuring correctness and setting up external vendor relationship- 50% increase in team output and 25% increase in team health data in under 1 year- Achieved 100% migration from the monolith of all domain services, whilst emphasizing rock solid architecture- Reduced time to release to production from ~1 day to around 10 min on average, with safeguards- Increased overall reliability to 99.2% on average by also driving noise reduction on alerts and pushing for more business-relevant observability, coupled with smart runbooks- Drove the strategy and/or architectural conversations around the new Recurrent Payments and the upcoming Wallet systems- Contributed to cross-team efforts to improve customer experience through more holistic understanding of payment workflows, i.e.: Payment Method Management, Payment Flow Flags, etc.- Pushed for constant iterations on team Operational Excellency

München, Bayern, De

The goal of this project was to attempt to redefine the internal structure of an Ukrainean org partly owned by the Allianz group and set up clear customer acquisition pipelines.Afterwards, ensuring smooth placement of talent in clients’ projects, by leveraging Ukrainean software engineering skills.

Luxembourg City, Lu

Overall achievements:- Led two platform architecture teams of 12 backend engineers and architects in setting up over 8 microservice-driven apps that significantly increased standardization and promoted component reuse- Acted as line manager of up to 20 other engineers, team leads, and managers, spread across up to 5 teams- Temporarily led the Payments engineering group together with director, over 40 engineers.- Led the initiative to rewrite our legacy payments systems into a modern microservice- and data-driven cloud-native payment gateway, with compliance and data consolidation in mindMy responsibilities included:- Driving architectural, infrastructure, and support conversations with stakeholders and team members;- Proposing optimizations to existing infrastructure to reduce operational costs;- Driving cloud-first and microservice mindset adoption inside the company;- Selecting and tracking service health indicators for graceful degradation;- Ensuring priorities and context are correctly cascaded and understood;- Defining and iterating over processes and tracking their implementation;- Writing the procedures and documentation necessary to obtain PCI-DSS certification, other compliance requirements;- Making capacity decisions for the quarterly slate, proposed priorities for maximum RoI;- Drive company-wide procedural and architectural initiatives by coordinating with and leading other managers and directors in their execution;- Working with Product and Planning to ensure that projects meet desired goals, managed expectations;- Proposing budgets covering team growth, infrastructure, licenses, and other costs;- Managing heterogeneous teams and ensuring they meet deliverables;- Driving recruitment for heterogeneous teams inside the organization;- Defining and tracking team objectives and performance metrics;- Mentoring engineers and promoting growth mentality;- Defining the career path for employees, together with the director and HR;

Key Achievements:- Company started with a budget of 0, scaled up to 600k EUR/year, one of the top 5 enterprises in the capital district- Grew staff to up to 16 employees and successfully operated a modern office, with cutting edge furnishing and materiels- Developed multi-year relationships with international partners, and assisted them in securing venture capital in order to growMy responsibilities included but were not limited to:- Ensuring growth for clients by providing solutions within budgets and timeframe constraints;- Optimizing client infrastructure for scalability with low total cost of ownership;- Developing tools to automate and reduce the overhead of daily tasks;- Driving architectural decisions, with a big picture, top-down approach, and refining based on stakeholder input;- Promoting proof of concept-first mentality for solving individual challenges, with outcomes feeding back into the solution;- Pushing for methodical but slower code delivery schedule, with emphasis on reducing code waste, where appropriate;- Introducing Agile mentality, setting up roles and ensuring process is followed;- Actively involved with Sales together with other stakeholders;- As owner of Operations, working closely with HR, Accounting, and Legal;- Mentoring and guiding engineers and promoting growth mentality;

Conshohocken, Pa, Us

My responsibilities included but were not limited to:- Making architectural decisions relating to the current version of the product;- Proposing and contributing to decisions related to the IT infrastructure;- Working as part of the tech research team to prototype new products;- Designing and developing new features and enhancements for existing clinical trials solutions;

Pitesti, Arges, Ro

My responsibilities included but were not limited to:- Developing and implementing a solution strategy and business plan to ensure product growth;- Quickly and reliably identifying and translating client requirements into solution facts;- Defining the overall architecture for the solution to support organic growth;- Developing the formalized methodologies appropriate for the solution;- Coordinating stakeholders in order to reduce time-to-market and ensure quality deliverables;- Mentoring colleagues in architecture and software design;

Pitesti, Arges, Ro

My responsibilities included but were not limited to:- Designing project architecture and overseeing its implementation for various scale projects;- Maintaining constant communication with clients and helping them clarify their product vision;- Ensuring said vision is consistent end-to-end to facilitate future development;- Implementing more difficult project slices with diverse languages and design paradigms;- Successful management and co-management of teams of up to five developers;- Mentoring and assessing new employees;

Pitesti, Arges, Ro

My responsibilities included but were not limited to:- Defining the architecture and implementing complex projects together with a small team;- Implementing key components for major projects in a consistent and scalable way;- Working on projects on the Microsoft stack, ranging from desktop applications to web-driven solutions;- Helping the product managers set appropriate client expectations during the development cycles;

My responsibilities included but were not limited to:- Analyzing project requirements and defining the roadmap and architecture;- Creating desktop and web applications using multiple programming languages and paradigms;- Setting up the hierarchical environments for the software projects.- Defining and implementing the hardware and network infrastructure for the company;- Evaluating, implementing and extending digital rights management solutions;

Erasmus Exchange, Applied Computer Science

Msc, Advanced Techniques For Information Processing

Bsc, Computer Science And Artificial Intelligence