Experience

Sematic (YC S22)
• Founding Engineer

  • Oct 2022 - Present


Cruise

• Retail
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Staff Software Engineer

  • Jan 2022 - Sep 2022

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

  Project: Metrics PlatformArea of Activity: Data ProcessingLeading a team inside the Machine Learning Infrastructure organization that provides an internal data processing framework for computing metrics that measure the on-road performance of the Autonomous Vehicle and of internal development processes, such as the training performance of Machine Learning Models.Responsibilities include proposing and designing software solutions such as frameworks and services based on collected user requirements, coordinating their rollout and dependencies with several other teams, establishing the team's roadmap and driving its execution, implementing and offering guidance to the rest of the team in implementation of these software solutions, and offering support to users.Main technologies used: Python, Beam, Dataflow, BigQuery Show less



Adobe

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Computer Scientist

  • Apr 2017 - Dec 2019

  Project: Adobe TargetArea of Activity: Content Optimization and PersonalizationWorked on a service that enables A/B tests, content optimization and personalization of clients' websites.Responsibilities included working together with Data Scientists in order to productize Machine Learning algorithms, improving and expanding on these algorithms' functionality, researching and integrating new technologies and creating new services and components. Other responsibilities include maintaining a robust, highly-available distributed service stack.Main technologies used: Java, Spring, Hadoop, Hbase, SQL, Spark ML Show less

• Computer Scientist

  • Aug 2015 - Apr 2017

  Project: Adobe PrimetimeArea of activity: Online TV Entitlement ServicesWas part of a project that proxies Identity Management between Media Content Providers and Internet Service Providers.Responsibilities included the research, design, implementation, testing and documentation of software components, projects and services, as well as contributing to the existing codebase with improvements and bug fixes. This includes the evaluation and integration of open source third party projects and libraries.I also handled client business and technical discussions and integrations, as well as on-call and incident resolution duties.Main technologies used: Java, Spring, Hadoop, Hbase, Couchbase, Kafka, Puppet, Ansible Show less

• DevOps / Site Reliability Engineer

  • Feb 2014 - Jul 2015

  Project: Adobe PrimetimeArea of activity: Big Data Analytics Services, Online TV Entitlement ServicesWas part of a three-Engineer team responsible for scaling the service environment to a multi-datacenter Active/Active setup, and for increasing the SLA from 99.9 to 99.99. Services included web and configuration layers, distributed message queues, distributed processing and data storage.Also automated deployment and monitoring tools, implemented features across the entire service stack in order to enable the Active/Active setup, performed deployments and on-call and incident resolution duties.Main technologies used: Java, Python, Hadoop, HBase, Kafka, Puppet, Ansible Show less

• Computer Scientist

  • Dec 2011 - Jan 2014

  Project: SaasBase AnalyticsArea of activity: Big Data Analytics ServicesWorked on a framework that provided Quality of Service and Business Intelligence Analytics data internally for other teams within the company. The service suite included real-time and batch data processing and distributed No-SQL data warehousing.As part of this team, I researched, designed, implemented, tested and documented software components and projects. My activities also included testing automation, as well as operational-intensive responsibilities, such as deployment and monitoring automation, Release Engineer and deployment duties, on-call and incident resolution.Main technologies used: Java, Python, Hadoop, HBase, Storm, Puppet Show less



Politehnica University of Bucharest

• Romania
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Teaching Assistant

  • 2010 - 2014

  Acted as Teaching Assistant for the Algorithm Design course for one semester and for the Object Oriented Programming course for two semesters.

• Research Assistant

  • Jul 2009 - Jan 2010

  As part of the “Language Technologies for Lifelong Learning” international research project, I created a web service that and extracts data from social networks.

• Computer Scientist Intern

  • Jul 2011 - Sep 2011

  Researched and developed a prototype for improving the performance of the OSMF media player HTTP video streaming multi-bitrate switching algorithm.

• Computer Scientist Intern

  • Mar 2011 - Jun 2011

  As part of my B.S. diploma project, I designed and implemented a statistical algorithm for reducing network traffic between client-side video players and analytics servers.



Nokia

• Finland
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Computer Scientist Intern

  • Jul 2010 - Sep 2010

  Developed an RDF metadata inference web service. Developed an RDF metadata inference web service.