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Ghent, Be

San Jose, Ca, Us

Led a team of 90+ engineers in Romania, including managers of managers (director) and architecture/tech leads, overseeing the development of AEM as a Cloud Service with key products and features like Cloud Manager, automated deployment, zero downtime, feature flags, and continuous updates. Contributed to growing the enterprise customer base from zero to 1,200, enhancing key development workflows through advanced architectures and cloud native technologies.Championed initiatives like the Customer Sponsorship Program, fostering direct engineering collaboration with over 40 enterprise clients. Regular speaker and lab organizer at Adobe Summit, earning top employee satisfaction scores and contributing to Romania’s startup ecosystem through mentorship. Established a machine learning team to scale release validation, improve customer support, and explore generative AI applications.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Built and scaled a high-performing software engineering and operations team from 11 to 150 members within 3 years, broadening its expertise to include Site Reliability Engineering, Shared Platform Services, Managed Services, Service Management, Networking/Storage/Virtualization, Security and Vulnerability Management, and Architecture. Promoted the growth of DevOps and Security communities in Bucharest, including BDevOps, OWASP, and BSidesBucharest.Accomplishments: Drove business growth through SRE and DevOps leadership for Adobe products, including Adobe Audience Manager (featuring one of the largest Cassandra cluster deployments globally), Adobe Pass (achieving a 99.99% SLA), Adobe Video Analytics (handling billions of events daily), Adobe Experience Platform (supporting hundreds of micro-services), Adobe Scene7, and Adobe Target. Contributed at enhancing Adobe’s tech stack with innovations like the Adobe Kubernetes platform, multi-cloud transport, Adobe DNS, and secret management solutions. Spearheaded the cloud transition for Adobe Digital Experience solutions, including Adobe Campaign and Adobe Target, and partnered with Microsoft to develop Azure Database for PostgreSQL for Adobe Campaign, a key lighthouse customer.

Cape Town, Za

Led an agile, results-driven online payments engineering organization in Bucharest, prioritizing quality, security, performance, and time to market. Managed a team of 40+ engineers, overseeing hiring, performance, salaries, training, bonuses, and budgeting. Responsible for Naspers' online payments products in Romania, Turkey, Russia, Hungary, and Ukraine.Accomplishments: Spearheaded the transition from a monolithic architecture to SOA and micro-services. Drove agile transformation and rebuilt a team of 4 infrastructure engineers in 3 months. Motivated the team to refactor legacy code, improving code quality and facilitating efficient onboarding of new developers. Organized the creation of the first hundreds of software automation tests. Mentored managers and leaders, enhancing the organization’s capabilities with comprehensive training programs from industry experts.Maintained rapid development in a dynamic environment, supporting business growth with hundreds of product releases. Influenced a shift from a sales-driven to a product-driven organization, promoting and mentoring an internal product manager.Encouraged engineers to interact directly with customers, gathering product feedback through business visits abroad. Led the integration of two regional online payment platforms (one in PHP, the other in Java), delivering a first prototype in three months.

Bucharest, Romania, Ro

Embraced multiple roles in a start-up to develop organizational competencies and drive growth. Functioned as a hands-on engineer across various departments/projects and directly managed a team of 5 engineers in a low-level technical department. Led recruitment efforts across all departments, including engineering, sales and marketing. The platform was built using C, C++, PHP, MySQL, Ruby, Perl, Memcached, and various open-source VoIP platforms (Asterisk, Kamailio).Accomplishments: Managed product releases using agile methodologies, and spearheaded certification efforts for SIPConnect and ISO 9001. Designed and delivered training programs for customers and teammates, conducted market research on Unified Communications, and provided strategic insights for business decisions. Mentored exceptional engineers who have advanced to positions at Google and Facebook. Played a key role in investment and acquisition due diligence and made significant contributions to critical organizational processes.

Calabasas, Ca, Us

Recruited and led a team of over 10 engineers in planning and delivering high-quality VoIP and IMS releases from requirements through to deployment. These solutions enabled network equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises, and governments to evaluate network performance, compliance, and security.Accomplishments: Merged IxVoice (VoIP testing on Windows/Intel) and IxLoad (triple play testing on Linux/PowerPC) into a single solution, integrating the GUI strength of IxVoice with IxLoad's performance capabilities. As the first release driver from outside the US, delivered IxLoad 3.50 on time and with high quality, greatly contributing to Ixia’s success in 2008. Played a key role in multiple IxLoad releases across three continents, shaped product requirements, and onboarded and trained team leaders and engineers.

Calabasas, Ca, Us

Architected and co-developed the initial VoIP modules for the IxLoad product, establishing it as the top tool for triple play testing (voice, video, and data) and earning accolades from Frost & Sullivan. Led a team of over 5 engineers, providing technical direction, defining requirements, and estimating costs. Developed for Intel x86 and PowerPC architectures using C/C++ and Python.Accomplishments: Gathered product requirements and supported sales efforts by working directly with customers on interoperability solutions through site visits in the US and Israel. Directed the product strategy for SIP technology in both IxVoice and IxLoad.

Led a 6-member team, overseeing the requirements phase, planning, development, and release of the SIP module for a test application that provides real-world traffic emulation for VoIP. Defined the SIP vision and strategy for the IxVoice product, utilizing C++, Java, ANTLR, COM, and Microsoft technologies.Accomplishments: Architected and developed an innovative SIP testing module that significantly boosted company revenues during a challenging period for the VoIP testers market. The product concepts I created were later incorporated into the IXIA IxLoad product. Additionally, coached team members on VoIP technology and rapid development skills.

Bucharest, Bucharest, Ro

Implemented new functionalities and software integrations (e.g. AutoCAD, MicroStation, MS Visio) for the CIMS (Configurable Instrumentation Management System for the Process Civil Mechanical Piping Electrical & Instrumentation Process Control Expertise industry) using Visual Studio C++, VBA, InstallShield, and Visual FoxPro.

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