Neculai - Ovidiu Istrate

Senior Software Engineer at Settle
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(386) 825-5501
Location
Bucharest, Romania, RO
Languages
  • Romanian Native or bilingual proficiency
  • English Full professional proficiency
  • French Elementary proficiency

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Experience

    • Norway
    • Financial Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Senior Software Engineer
      • May 2021 - Present

      ▪ main developer for major features in a Python codebase, such as: - foreign exchange and cross border payments; - consumer micro credit; - financial user data sharing and anonymization across a range of products; - revenue reporting in a complex corporate structure involving multiple currencies, jurisdictions and institutional investors. ▪ migrated key areas of the main service (transaction engine) to asynchronous processing using Google Cloud resources such as Cloud Tasks, Job Scheduler, Pub-Sub in conjunction with App Engine. ▪ maintained a high standard of quality across all projects, using CI/CD, close to 100% unit test coverage, and closely monitoring deployments. ▪ reduced cloud costs by 25% by implementing code optimizations in the main service and by continuously monitoring and adjusting both horizontal and vertical instance scaling. Show less

  • Filed
    • Bucharest, Romania
    • Software Engineer Team Lead
      • Aug 2020 - May 2021

      ▪ designed and implemented Python Flask-based microservices with MongoDB and RabbitMQ data backends, hosted as Docker containers in Kubernetes on AWS infrastructure ▪ implemented statistical model based recommendations for complex Facebook marketing ad placement strategies ▪ significantly improved architecture of several legacy services, reducing batch job times by 80% and database storage by 90% ▪ responsible for technical and cultural fit interviews, onboarding new hires, and performance reviews ▪ added unit tests for CI pipelines Show less

    • Romania
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer
      • Aug 2019 - Aug 2020

      ▪ wrote modules in large, networking-heavy call center management and monitoring solution ▪ migrated C++ interfaces from bespoke, proprietary protocols to REST ▪ maintained Python Flask-based application for machine learning models ▪ wrote modules in large, networking-heavy call center management and monitoring solution ▪ migrated C++ interfaces from bespoke, proprietary protocols to REST ▪ maintained Python Flask-based application for machine learning models

    • Romania
    • Banking
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Designer
      • Jul 2017 - Aug 2019

      ▪ performed hybrid role consisting of product management and software design within the Treasury and Trading IT department ▪ translated business needs into software requirements specifications and further into design specifications, working closely with development teams to ensure developers followed the design ▪ worked on MiFID II EU directive implementation, involving a long chain of responsibility, from front office operations to core banking ▪ performed SRE tasks related to database maintenance, deployment monitoring, and security keys propagation ▪ solved automation problems using batch scripting for delivering financial reports Show less

    • United Kingdom
    • Financial Services
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Software Developer
      • Jul 2016 - Jan 2017

      ▪ developed software within a massive monolith solution for mission-critical areas, e.g. core banking ▪ migrated high responsibility financing risk-related software modules from non-standard compliant C++ code to C++11 standard ▪ used git for version control and pull request with multiple approvals flow in GitHub ▪ worked in a multi-team configuration using scrum sprint agile format ▪ developed software within a massive monolith solution for mission-critical areas, e.g. core banking ▪ migrated high responsibility financing risk-related software modules from non-standard compliant C++ code to C++11 standard ▪ used git for version control and pull request with multiple approvals flow in GitHub ▪ worked in a multi-team configuration using scrum sprint agile format

    • France
    • Market Research
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Automation Engineer
      • Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

      ▪ leveraged IBM automation language to enable both desktop-based and web-based forms interaction ▪ leveraged IBM automation language to enable both desktop-based and web-based forms interaction

Education

  • University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
    Master's degree, Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration
    2018 - 2020
  • University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
    Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science
    2014 - 2018
  • National College "Gheorghe Vranceanu" Bacau
    Romanian Baccalaureate, Mathematics and Informatics
    2010 - 2014

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