Neculai - Ovidiu Istrate
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Romanian Native or bilingual proficiency
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English Full professional proficiency
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French Elementary proficiency
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Experience
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Settle
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Norway
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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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
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Filed
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Bucharest, Romania
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Software Engineer Team Lead
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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
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Mediatel Data
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Romania
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Engineer
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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
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BCR
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Romania
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Banking
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Designer
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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
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Misys
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Developer
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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
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Ipsos
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France
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Market Research
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700 & Above Employee
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Automation Engineer
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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
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Education
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University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Master's degree, Data Modeling/Warehousing and Database Administration -
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science -
National College "Gheorghe Vranceanu" Bacau
Romanian Baccalaureate, Mathematics and Informatics