Stefan Niculescu
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Cristian Sarghe
I've had the occasion to work with Stefan twice in the past and I'd do it again with all my heart. Besides being a trustful and people-oriented team leader, Stefan is also a great talent spotter, having created a team of incredible developers for the Salade2Fruits' Bucharest based R&D department. He managed to inspire everyone in the team to improve both their technical and soft skills and never lost sight of the goals, while keeping the team morale high at all times. Yet, maybe the biggest challenge that he overcame was managing to create a team that doesn't depend on a single person at any moment. He did that by empowering members to learn to handle any type of task that would keep the workflow going (leading any type of meeting, writing documentation, interviewing, training other people). I've learned a lot of things from Stefan and I'm absolutely sure he's the man that can stick your team together and make it excel in whatever it's doing.
Luca Iov
When Stefan recruited me into S2F I had little clue what I was signing up for. Nevertheless, he inspired a great degree of confidence and I feel like he followed through or at least did way more than I expected of him to begin with to hold true to all of the promises he made to people working with him. I can not overstate how much I appreciated the honesty and ethics with which Stefan treated work relationships. Amidst a fairly chaotic project he managed to carve out a bubble of fresh air which allowed Team Aubergine to excel at what it was doing. Every single developer on that team was picked by Stefan, and one could easily tell that much like most if not all hist choices as a leader, he chose wisely, and with a clear goal in sight. There is but one team leader I would follow on a project overseas, and you, reader, have stumbled onto his profile.
Cristian Sarghe
I've had the occasion to work with Stefan twice in the past and I'd do it again with all my heart. Besides being a trustful and people-oriented team leader, Stefan is also a great talent spotter, having created a team of incredible developers for the Salade2Fruits' Bucharest based R&D department. He managed to inspire everyone in the team to improve both their technical and soft skills and never lost sight of the goals, while keeping the team morale high at all times. Yet, maybe the biggest challenge that he overcame was managing to create a team that doesn't depend on a single person at any moment. He did that by empowering members to learn to handle any type of task that would keep the workflow going (leading any type of meeting, writing documentation, interviewing, training other people). I've learned a lot of things from Stefan and I'm absolutely sure he's the man that can stick your team together and make it excel in whatever it's doing.
Luca Iov
When Stefan recruited me into S2F I had little clue what I was signing up for. Nevertheless, he inspired a great degree of confidence and I feel like he followed through or at least did way more than I expected of him to begin with to hold true to all of the promises he made to people working with him. I can not overstate how much I appreciated the honesty and ethics with which Stefan treated work relationships. Amidst a fairly chaotic project he managed to carve out a bubble of fresh air which allowed Team Aubergine to excel at what it was doing. Every single developer on that team was picked by Stefan, and one could easily tell that much like most if not all hist choices as a leader, he chose wisely, and with a clear goal in sight. There is but one team leader I would follow on a project overseas, and you, reader, have stumbled onto his profile.
Cristian Sarghe
I've had the occasion to work with Stefan twice in the past and I'd do it again with all my heart. Besides being a trustful and people-oriented team leader, Stefan is also a great talent spotter, having created a team of incredible developers for the Salade2Fruits' Bucharest based R&D department. He managed to inspire everyone in the team to improve both their technical and soft skills and never lost sight of the goals, while keeping the team morale high at all times. Yet, maybe the biggest challenge that he overcame was managing to create a team that doesn't depend on a single person at any moment. He did that by empowering members to learn to handle any type of task that would keep the workflow going (leading any type of meeting, writing documentation, interviewing, training other people). I've learned a lot of things from Stefan and I'm absolutely sure he's the man that can stick your team together and make it excel in whatever it's doing.
Luca Iov
When Stefan recruited me into S2F I had little clue what I was signing up for. Nevertheless, he inspired a great degree of confidence and I feel like he followed through or at least did way more than I expected of him to begin with to hold true to all of the promises he made to people working with him. I can not overstate how much I appreciated the honesty and ethics with which Stefan treated work relationships. Amidst a fairly chaotic project he managed to carve out a bubble of fresh air which allowed Team Aubergine to excel at what it was doing. Every single developer on that team was picked by Stefan, and one could easily tell that much like most if not all hist choices as a leader, he chose wisely, and with a clear goal in sight. There is but one team leader I would follow on a project overseas, and you, reader, have stumbled onto his profile.
Cristian Sarghe
I've had the occasion to work with Stefan twice in the past and I'd do it again with all my heart. Besides being a trustful and people-oriented team leader, Stefan is also a great talent spotter, having created a team of incredible developers for the Salade2Fruits' Bucharest based R&D department. He managed to inspire everyone in the team to improve both their technical and soft skills and never lost sight of the goals, while keeping the team morale high at all times. Yet, maybe the biggest challenge that he overcame was managing to create a team that doesn't depend on a single person at any moment. He did that by empowering members to learn to handle any type of task that would keep the workflow going (leading any type of meeting, writing documentation, interviewing, training other people). I've learned a lot of things from Stefan and I'm absolutely sure he's the man that can stick your team together and make it excel in whatever it's doing.
Luca Iov
When Stefan recruited me into S2F I had little clue what I was signing up for. Nevertheless, he inspired a great degree of confidence and I feel like he followed through or at least did way more than I expected of him to begin with to hold true to all of the promises he made to people working with him. I can not overstate how much I appreciated the honesty and ethics with which Stefan treated work relationships. Amidst a fairly chaotic project he managed to carve out a bubble of fresh air which allowed Team Aubergine to excel at what it was doing. Every single developer on that team was picked by Stefan, and one could easily tell that much like most if not all hist choices as a leader, he chose wisely, and with a clear goal in sight. There is but one team leader I would follow on a project overseas, and you, reader, have stumbled onto his profile.
Credentials
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Project Manager
Structural Euro Fond&TrainingDec, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
MTA: Software Development Fundamentals
MicrosoftFeb, 2015- Nov, 2024 -
Course 6420B: Fundamentals of Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Innovation CenterMay, 2010- Nov, 2024 -
Computer Network Administrator - Advanced LINUX administration
Avantaj ConsultingMay, 2009- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Playtika
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Israel
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Computer Games
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700 & Above Employee
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R&D Team Lead
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Dec 2022 - Present
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Consulto.ai
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Software Development
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Co-Founder
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Aug 2022 - Present
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SALADE 2 FRUITS
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France
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Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Team Lead
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Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
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KFactory®
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Romania
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Information Technology & Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Technical Lead
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Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
Integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning components in manufacturing. Integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning components in manufacturing.
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StarByte Romania
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Romania
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Developer
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May 2018 - Dec 2020
▪ Angular 8 ▪ Vue ▪ Typescript ▪ C# / .Net / ASP.NET Core ▪ Web API ▪ Code reviews ▪ Angular 8 ▪ Vue ▪ Typescript ▪ C# / .Net / ASP.NET Core ▪ Web API ▪ Code reviews
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Ubisoft
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France
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Computer Games
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700 & Above Employee
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Application Technical Lead
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Mar 2018 - May 2018
▪ Responsible for application technical design ▪ Insure development quality by helping other developers, code reviews ▪ Insure that development standards and best-practices are respected ▪ Main point of contact for technical topics ▪ Deep expertise on application ▪ Coordinate developments during major phases like tool creation/major updates ▪ Responsible for CI, deployment setup ▪ Review technical documentation
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IT Developer
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Aug 2016 - May 2018
▪ C# / ASP.Net Core▪ Web API▪ SQL Server / MongoDB▪ Angular 1.6 / 2 - 4.5▪ Typescript▪ Entity framework▪ Elasticsearch▪ Kibana
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Kontron Services Romania
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Business Analyst
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Oct 2015 - Aug 2016
Responsabilities:▪ Managing requirements▪ Anticipate requirements▪ Technical documents writing▪ Own and develop relationship with partners▪ Validate features▪ Write and develop acceptance tests scenarios according to the specification.▪ Write and develop integration acceptance tests scenarios according to the specificationsProjects: ▪ Common Actions for Prevention Environmental Disasters - MIS CODE 360 ( National Agency for Land Improvement - ANIF )▪ Association for Inter-Community Development of Public Utilities for the Water Supply and Sewage Service "Oltul" ( - A.D.I. Oltul)▪ Emergency Management Information System ( General inspectorate for emergency situations - IGSU )▪ Diplomatic Archives-Digital Library ( Ministry Of Foreign Affairs - MAE )▪ Accreditation for education providers project(National Agency for Quality Assurance in PreUniversity Education - ARACIP).
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Software Developer
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Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
▪ WebApplication ASP.Net, Windows 8.1 App WinRT▪ MSSQL ▪ Service-oriented applications WCF▪ ADO.NET, Fluent NHibernate▪ Dependecy Injection: The Unity Application Block▪ Domain Driven Design and Repository pattern▪ AutoMapper▪ Application Blocks: Enterprise Library – Logging, Exception Handling, Validation▪ JavaScript: Knockout ( MVVM )▪ XAML, MVVM Light Toolkit
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Qualiance Solutions
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Bucharest, Romania
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Software Developer
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May 2014 - Apr 2015
Software development on enterprise projects for GOV customers: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, General Inspectorate of Immigrations. • Extend the DotNetNuke Framework via custom module creation using MSSQL Server, C#, & Visual Studio 2013 • Meet with business users to determine UI/UX needs for web applications • Design layouts for DotNetNuke skins using CSS, JQuery, ASP.Net & HTML • Assist in localizing and maintaining multilingual DotNetNuke websites • Research for new web tools, technologies, concepts for the organization • IIS web server configuration (certificates, etc) and network debugging (wireshark, etc ) • Developing Windows Services in C#
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MHC - Romania
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Romania
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Software Release Engineer
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Jan 2014 - Apr 2014
• Build automation: -Continuous Integration with Jenkins and TFS -Maintaining build scripts and creating new ones for Ecrion product using MSBuild and Linux/Unix scripting. -Automate the build process (using TFS or Windows Task Scheduler). -MsBuild, TFS, Windows Task Scheduler, Crontab, C#, some Windows Batch on Windows Environments -Unix scripting, Make, Perl on Linux & AIX • Software delivery -Ensure that the evaluation software reaches support team and the release software reaches website -Ensure that daily/nightly builds are successful • Creating and maintaining build environment -Installing build prerequisites when needed(e.g. gcc on AIX, Team Explorer Everywhere on Unix environments) -Continuous Integration • Setup developing with WIX scripting language using custom actions, etc • Resolving bugs in products using C#, C++
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Freelance
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Bucharest, Romania
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SEO Specialist & Team Lead
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Jun 2010 - Dec 2013
• Search engine optimization and website promotion (Currently own 12 up and coming personal websites that reached 25000 unique visits in 24 hours at their peak); • Traffic strategy development through SEO and Link Bait; • Competitors and techniques analysis; • Keyword research; • Link building campaigns; • Affiliation with countless advertisers; • Earnings optimization; • Wrote and published more than 700 articles (e.g. http://www.edailypost.com/author/stefan/, etc); • C#, PHP and bash scripts development for tasks automation; • Experience in implementing code (HTML, CSS, PHP) with a db backend (MYSQL); • Managed websites, dedicated servers, VPS and shared hosting;
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Education
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2008 - 2011
Universitatea Româno-Americană din București
Bachelor's degree, Informatics
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