Experience

Nagarro

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Associate Director - People and Technology Enablement for Web, Managed Services, Mobile and UI/UX

  • Oct 2020 - Present

  I have to mention that I am not the right person to speak to about subcontracting or hiring intermediaries, please, no solicitation regarding these topics. I helped hire tens of new colleagues by participating in HR, and technical interviews, and making hiring offers. Lead and delivered student and colleague training programs (courses, workshops, webinars) to train new colleagues, improve existing colleague's skills and grow professionalism. Proposed and maintained budget around own communities. Eased transition during company merger for my communities. Organised events, competitions and other team building activities. Show less



AgileHub

• Romania
• IT Services and IT Consulting

• Volunteer / Technical Trainer / CTO

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  Held the first ever long term course and the first ever Meetup. Delivered other long term courses since. Spoke at one conference, taught a workshop at another, and helped organise the latest two editions of PeakIT reaching hundreds of peers in the community. Held the first ever long term course and the first ever Meetup. Delivered other long term courses since. Spoke at one conference, taught a workshop at another, and helped organise the latest two editions of PeakIT reaching hundreds of peers in the community.



The Informal School of IT

• Trainer, Coach and Mentor

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  Trained and coached over 200 people who desired a change in profession, many of which currently contribute and add value in software companies. Co-developed the training plan for the ReactJS course. Trained and coached over 200 people who desired a change in profession, many of which currently contribute and add value in software companies. Co-developed the training plan for the ReactJS course.



Beyond Code Solutions

• Romania
• Information Technology & Services

• Managing Partner

  • Jul 2017 - Present

  Delivered tens of training sessions and long terms courses (Web Development, React, Scratch) to over 200 students of varying ages, levels and experience. Delivered tens of training sessions and long terms courses (Web Development, React, Scratch) to over 200 students of varying ages, levels and experience.



iQuest Group

• Germany
• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Head of Web Technologies and Managed Services

  • May 2017 - Oct 2020

  Hiring, staffing and community manager for more than 60 colleagues.Grew the department and our delivery capacity from around 20 to around 68 FTEs, all the while maintaining less than 10% attrition rates.Technical responsibilities are not completely gone:Notable Projects:- Helped develop and maintain several services supporting a new application for the world's largest financial publication using Node JS, Serverless, Elasticsearch, React, Typescript, AWS (1yr as an active developer) Show less

• Technical Lead (Principal Engineer)

  • Oct 2015 - May 2017

  Various activities and responsibilities:- Technical: Hosting Angular 1.x workshops and training sessions company wide, co-development of applications, high level architecture decisions, implementation decisions, best practices enforcement, pair programming, technical assistance, participating as speaker and/or host at the Keyboards and Mice conference type events, 3rd level support, establishing learning paths for un-allocated colleagues, hosting technical interviews with lots of candidates, participating as a teacher and supervisor for iQuest University (student internship and remote learning) on Web Development topics- Pre-sales: on-site and remote client discussions, requirements elicitation and clarification, high level architecture proposals, solution and technology stack proposals, technical documentation, work breakdowns, ballpark and detailed estimates etc.- Managerial/non-technical: helping organize and plan internal technical events for our department, career management and performance management of colleagues plus overview of the process for our department, help with staffing overview and decision for web development concerns.- Research and self-development: continued learning new technologies like Angular 2 to help in pre-sales and project activities, continued study of Laravel to keep up with changes in new versions, developed pet projects making use of Angular and Node JS & Express with Socket.io for several purposes like, for example, running a programming competition Show less

• Senior Staff/Software Engineer

  • Apr 2010 - Sep 2015

  Developed HTML, JavaScript and CSS website/web application interfaces and also back-end functionality using PHP (sometimes w/ Drupal, Wordpress and Laravel) and MySQL.Notable projects include:- contributing code and technical coordination on a number of eCommerce projects- thick client, responsive application for people management built with Laravel and Angular 1.x- working on a thick client, responsive, single page web app for a startup, using technologies such as Backbone JS and Enyo JS, later refactoring it for Angular JS 1.x- optimizing an online banking service provider's website for better accessibility, also creating a mobile version of their presentation site- developing a social hub for a well known British retailer in Drupal- developing a company website in Wordpress w/ multisite and multiple languages- developing the front-end of an N2 CMS based website with the Spark view engine for a corporate client Show less



SC Decsoft SRL

• Web Developer

  • May 2006 - Apr 2010

  I had the occasion to evolve along side the company, lead a small team and develop all kinds of projects ranging from simple presentation web-sites to very complex web-applications which I also had to test and debug. My work implied using technologies like PHP, MySQL, (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript w/ jQuery, JSON, AJAX. Notable projects include: - a classified ad site written from scratch, maintaining this application for some time after it was finished and optimizing it down the road - in-house CMS solution written in pure PHP and MySQL - in-house time/task tracking tool - the websites of the local council and prefect's office - the business logic behind a sports bet web-application Show less