Christian Stefanescu Email & Phone Number

Berlin, Germany

• Resposibilities include:
• Helping define the team culture, introducing DevOps concepts and clarifying reponsibilities (within the team and outwards)
• Being the technical decision maker for the platform as a whole but especially in terms of backend development and operations.
• Stabilizing the existing product in terms of processes, software quality, development environment, infrastructure, expectation management, and stakeholder feedback
• Making the technical decisions for the future of the platform as well as future projects including but not limited to CI/CD, hosting platform, observability, framework choices, build vs buy
• Making the hiring process more efficient and more transparent to candidates

Berlin, Germany

Working with the developers at Holoplot to deliver a database-backed ReSTful API formostly internal use, including automated documentation and client generation.

Berlin, Germany

• Achievements:
• Help the company turn a proof of concept implementation into a scalable productable to work internationally (in terms of performance but mostly in terms ofmanageability)
• Making the technical decisions for the future of the platform as well as futureprojects including but not limited to CI/CD, operations and infrastructure in-cluding the hosting platform, monitoring and alerting
• Come up with and implement a robust import system for campsite data withup to 800 attributes per campsite. At my time there the catalogue had around10000 items
• Significantly improved the developer experience by creating and documenting alocally runnable environment (from zero to production-like environment in lessthan one hour), making test data available and extensively.
• For the better part of time there I was the main responsible for the operationalaspect of the platform, including monitoring, alerting and incident response

Berlin, Germany

Helped architect and implement scalable REST APIs and services to connect existing systems and allow an improved deployment workflow as well as a completely new user experience for installing software (Native Access). Involved with deployment, monitoring, metrics and testing of these systems as well as the way product data and metadata is edited and.

Berlin, Germany

Continuing as a team lead for the infrastructure team, see previous position at Acme Packet.

Berlin, Germany

• (position Team Lead: Infrastructure as of 05.2012 until 07.2013)Achievements:
• Development and maintain the Palladion platform as well as the tooling aroundit
• Making significant improvements to the platform, improving the reliability of ourservices and moving custom solutions to off-the-shelf solutions wherever possible(for example: systemd and deb packages)
• Participated (alone and in sub-teams) in full-stack feature development in closecollaboration with pre-sales engineers and customers
• Continuously suggesting and implementing improvements to the tooling aroundour platform, especially in terms of software quality (linting, integration testsuite, code formatting), development environment, automated.
• Participating in all technical hiring processes for my teamI joined as a software developer and was reporting to the CTO of the company as well as to the Lead Developer in terms of technical decisions. Palladion was a.

Berlin, Germany

Developing desktop and server applications with Java, based on the NinJo platform of the German Weather Service. Co-developing a platform for semi-automated document workflow processing, regarding weather warning documents based on MS Word templates.

Cluj, Romania

Developing several Java desktop or web applications for customers in the Netherlands and Germany.

Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Junior software developer on several near-shore projects for customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Largest project involved customized MS Office extensions.