Stone Soup Tech is a full-service digital agency focusing on creative mobile, web, and software solutions. With a core team of senior developers, award-winning designers, and Ph.D. digital scientists, Stone Soup uses advanced technologies to solve problems, create compelling products, and grow companies.My responsibilities with them are roughly the following:- represent the customer within the development process and the other way around- own the long-term product roadmap, maintain and prioritise the short-term product backlog - schedule, prepare, track & communicate releases; sometimes also execute them- develop, own, maintain and enforce the product architecture throughout the product's life- propose revisions and enforce the workflows and procedures regarding SDLC and related tooling- serve as a subject matter expect on the online video topic- help the team by doing research, finding the right solutions and providing PoCs for some of the more complicated issues- help the team define the technology stack and drive the adoption of new technologies- track and help improve quality and performance, being personally accountable for both- manage suppliers/subcontractors/service providers

bitExpert AG is a consulting, digital transformation and IT-services company, with offices in Mannheim and Bucharest. I joined as a solution architect, because they needed the expertise and wanted to expand the Bucharest office, and I quickly picked up the "tribe lead" role.As a solution architect, the main responsibilities are:- understanding our customer's business problems and finding the best tech solution to solve them- advising PMs, developers and customers on various technical matters- creating proposals for the products' architecture, CI/CD setups, coding standards and workflows- keeping an eye out that the architecture and the standards are respected throughout the lifetime of the projectAs a tribe lead, it's a mix of administrative and people management responsibilities like:- having an overview of the tribe's workload and advise on staffing needs- receive, aggregate, discuss and provide feedback, act as a mediator between the employees and management- know the skills, interests and intentions of tribe members; facilitate their development through the company's programs- approving holiday requests, having regular one-to-one sessions with the tribe members, etc.

Groupe Renault had an initiative to create a development hub in Bucharest, bringing in people with fresh ideas, as part of their ongoing commitment to stay up to date with current technologies and trends. I was recruited when the hub had just started up and I left when we were already around 50 people.The responsibilities were roughly:Specifies and maintains architecture of the solution that will be developed by lead devProvides expertise to ensure product performance, ecosystem integration and flexibilityProvides input on any architecture and technology issueEnsures architecture, required capacities and tech alignment between teams maximising reuse of componentsCreates High Level architecture diagram Identifies impacted systems Drives resolution for architectural ambiguities Provides enterprise technical architectural perspective Creates sequence diagrams for developers and supports development in High level Design Provides input on any architectural issues Helps resolve architectural issues that emerge during integrationOn top of that, I helped out on the recruitment part, performing technical screenings and interviews, staying in touch with recruiters with feedback on the candidates they brought in, and contributing to the overall growth process.

CivicTech Romania is a non-profit tech startup whose mission is to make public services digital by default by developing open Source solutions designed for a globally connected, digital society. Responsibilities:- researching software solutions that may be applied for faster time-to-market in the digital public services realm- developing expertise in third party open/closed source solutions- creating architecture, algorithms, and designs for software solutions that meet the beneficiary's requirements- developing plans for integrating existing solutions with the beneficiary's existing systems, creating POCs- working closely with the beneficiaries and their in-house teams to explain the benefits and justify the investment in each particular proposed solution

LINK group is a leading multinational company with more than 20 years of success in professional education and certification in the fields of information technology and contemporary business.The position involved teaching a couple of courses on Java, PHP, databases and web development, and also developing the training materials for the courses.

Crossover employs remote-working contractors in all positions and experience levels.The products I am responsible for are several network appliances and the underlying management ecosystem.The solutions make use of Java (Java EE being migrated to Spring framework), PHP, different flavors of SQL (MySQL, Postgres) and web-based frontends using various Javascript frameworks (Angular, ExtJS).We work agile, code is stored in Git, we follow Gitflow and there are complete CI/CD pipelines for each product, including automated tests and code quality reports.Products are generally hosted on AWS, mostly using Docker containers.Responsibilities:- developing expertise in one or more of our proprietary enterprise software products- leveraging your broad technology capability set and maintain a level of excitement in using various technologies to architect, develop, and iteratively deploy real enterprise class software- achieving an expert level understanding of our customers’ environments and their use of our products- architecting and leading weekly technical delivery of one or more products in a way that maintains an unyielding focus on quality while matching the needs of the target customer base.- creating solutions architecture, algorithms, and designs for solutions that scale to the customer's enterprise/global requirements- leading a small team of Software Engineers to apply software engineering practices and implement automations across all elements of solution delivery- manage accountability of team members, with pinpoint focus on quality; Personally accountable for resolution of the most technically challenging issues

Several small projects, including a custom OIDC Single Sign-On solution integrated in an enterprise environment and some work on e-commerce websites.

GovITHub is a governmental program that aims to involve IT professionals from the private sector. The goal is to have an innovative, entrepreneurial approach and develop IT tools that improve government transparency, efficiency and the citizens’ interaction with the government.The project is composed of 20 "fellows", people that dedicate their full time and attention to the initiative, and more than 300 volunteers that contribute with at least 8 hours per week.The fellows' responsibilities are identifying projects, discussing with the governmental beneficiaries, documenting the requirements, recruiting volunteers and managing the project as a whole, including from a technical perspective.Together with a couple of volunteers, we developed a ticketing system that would help institutions to organise their communication with the public. I handled the business analysis, solution architecture and much of the code. The project is open source here: https://github.com/sorinvasilescu/petitiiAccording to our calculations, after 4 months of activity, GovITHub's projects had saved more than 1 million EUR in public spending, with a cost of 160k EUR.

Overseeing the continued development of mobile apps for a major client in the banking business, in terms of architecture, security and quality.Providing technical consultancy for both the client's personnel and for internal managers.Directly communicating with suppliers in order to assure we meet the technical requirements, deadlines and quality.Helping out various colleagues with technical tasks, for example the QA team with some mobile automated testing.

The job implied, roughly, the following tasks:- coordinating projects and managing the working relationship with clients- acting as a Scrum Master for some projects- business analysis and developing requirements documentation for some projects- help the team prioritize the latest set of technical issues- managing the client's requirements, advising on improvements and finding ways to solve unusual problems- coordinating the subcontractors, setting deadlines and approving the deliverables- part time active development using server side technologies like Java, Spring MVC, Hibernate, JPA, MySQL and web frontend technologies like HTML, CSS, jQuery

At ioteo, we believe the next decade will bring one of the biggest technological evolution in people’s life: interconnecting intelligent objects with the cloud. We strive to become a reference platform for the Internet Of Things through surprisingly simple to use and friendly solutions derived from our belief in technological evolution and its impact on human life. The job implies, roughly, the following tasks:- participate in or lead the design, implementation, tuning and maintenance the company's production video handling systems- assist the company's directors with the management of the developers- coordinating the subcontractors, setting deadlines and approving the deliverables- researching and testing, alone or working together with other developers (bash, Python, Actionscript, PHP, JavaScript)

Direct One SA is a national data carrier (ISP) who co-owned and later absorbed MediaDirect Technologies SRL, a video content delivery network in Romania, that serves the majority of national television channels and other content rights holders. MediaDirect Technologies SRL was eventually merged with Direct One SA.Projects include www.tvplus.ro, www.dolcetv.ro, www.seenow.ro, mobile apps for Android, iOS and Windows 8, apps for connected TVs, online video delivery for the major Romanian TV stations (TVR, Realitatea, Antena 3, Kanal D, etc) and a lot of other backend work like billing systems, CRM, CMS, etc.The job implies, roughly, the following tasks:- coordinating the in-house development team in implementing custom projects and expanding the core system's (CDN) capabilities- designing hardware infrastructures and software solutions, together with the respective teams- managing the client's requirements, advising on improvements and finding ways to solve unusual problems- documenting the solutions and establishing the best ways to monitor and assure quality of service, together with the NOC personnel- evaluate the solutions for scalability and security- on-site or remote interventions for critical problems, coordinating downtime and managing crises- offering technical support for the commercial personnel in the early stages of a project- offering support and guidance (training) for the customer's commercial, editorial and technical personnel throughout the whole lifetime of the project; developing strong relationships with the client's technical teams- maintaining a solid and up to date knowledge of the third party solutions used, keeping up to date with the technologies and having a stable overview of all deployed solutions and in-house development

MediaDirect Technologies is a national video content delivery network in Romania, that serves the majority of national television channels and other content rights holders.The CDN infrastructure was designed in-house and most of the software was designed in-house. Some software was subcontracted based on in-house design and specifications.The job implied, roughly, the following tasks:- coordinating the in-house development team, that included programmers (PHP, ActionScript, Java) and graphic designers- coordinating the subcontractors, setting deadlines and approving the deliverables- analyzing the video delivery market and designing a scalable solution capable of serving a large number of clients simultaneously; improving the solution and adding new features- researching and testing, alone or working together with other developers (bash, Perl, Actionscript, PHP, Java)

Siveco Romania is mainly a software company, with a wide range of products in different industries.The position was in the e-Learning department and involved coordinating several external development teams, while keeping a tight relationship with the educational content specialists, in order to supervise and manage the development of educational multimedia software.

New Com Telecomunicatii was (no longer exists) an ISP that wanted to extend it's range of services with over-the-top solutions.The position implied designing and developing rich media applications, managing video streaming services and finding solutions for other web-related problems.

Digital Image (http://www.digitalimage.ro) is a small web services firm, which offers design and development for on-line websites and applications. Some projects still stand (www.magazinuldecase.ro), others are obsolete, whilst others were ment to exist for a limited time (campaingn sites and applications for various brands).The position implied management of operations (development, hiring, etc), but minimal client contact (which was handled by the other managing partner).I also did design, programming (PHP, Actionscript 2 and Actionscript 3) and frontend work (HTML,CSS), filling the gaps and working together with the rest of the team.