11+ Years Experience

Lead Java Engineer &
Solutions Architect

Lead Engineer and Solutions Architect with over a decade of experience building web applications, scalable platforms and distributed systems.

I've worked on projects with application in: Finance, Cloud Communications, Monitoring and Modelling Big Data, Social Media, Medicine, Insurance, Ecommerce, Fulfilment and Logistics, Retail, Stock Marketing, Healthcare, Banking and Investments.

Core Profile

Location Cluj-Napoca / Satu Mare, RO
Primary Stack Java, Javascript
Cloud AWS, Azure, GCP, Open Stack
Phone +40746333494

Impact At Scale

Career Highlights

Public Healthcare Infrastructure

Lead Java Engineer for Germany's ePA platform, delivering secure cloud architecture for over 60 million citizens.

Global E-Commerce Logistics

Led cloud deployment for Ocado Smart Platform's fulfillment engines, powering Kroger, Aeon, and Auchan.

Banking & Fintech Solutions

Solutions Architect for Santander Corporate & Investment Bank's inter-account transfer systems.

Fintech Startup Unicorn

Owned core post-purchase payment processing services for Klarna online financial services.

Enterprise Communications (8x8)

Developed real-time GraphQL and WebSocket analytics tools to monitor communications globally.

National Security Risk Systems

Engineered epidemiological risk-mitigation engines at Softvision for US national security initiatives.

Chronological Journey

Professional Experience

Lead Software Engineer & Solutions Architect

Technical Lead @ IBM, HTEC Group, Yopeso, Epam Systems, 8x8

Aug 2015 - Present

Lead Engineer and Solutions Architect with over a decade of experience building web applications, scalable platforms and distributed systems. I've worked on projects with application in: Finance, Cloud Communications, Monitoring and Modelling Big Data, Social Media, Medicine, Insurance, Ecommerce, Fulfilment and Logistics, Retail, Stock Marketing, Healthcare, Banking and Investments.

Endava | BMW Group

Sep 2025 - Jul 2026
  • Full Stack Java Lead for a team of 5 developers on Paysafe.
  • Solutions Architect for 2 teams of 5 developers on BMW Cars Leasing Platform.

IBM • ePA Germany

Jul 2023 - Oct 2024
  • Java Technical Lead for a team of 5 developers on ePA Germany - Digital Public Healthcare and Insurance system serving 60 million people.
  • Solutions Architect for integrating private insurance capabilities on ePA. Designed and implemented MVP and formed a team of 5 engineers for the project.

HTEC Group • Ocado Smart Platform

Aug 2022 - Jun 2023
  • Java Technical Lead for a team of 5 developers on the Ocado Smart Platform, implementing software for Fullfilment and Logistics of Online Grocery Shopping.
  • Nighlty On Call Engineer to support adressing production incidents for client such as Kroger (USA), Aeon (Japan), Auchan (Europe).
  • Solutions Architect on implementing event driven pipeline to monitor food picker activity.
  • Solutions Architect and Team Lead for a team of 5 senior developers to migrate infrastracture from AWS Elastic Kubernetes Services to AWS Elastic Container Service.

Yopeso • Klarna

Apr 2022 - Aug 2022
  • Java Technical Lead on Single Sign On Component project.
  • Java Technical Lead on Recurring Payments Notification System.

EPAM Systems • Santander & LSEG

Dec 2020 - Feb 2022
  • Java Technical Lead for a team of 6 developers on London Stock Exchange project for Aggregating Business Data from across the Web into Proprietary Data Lake.
  • Solutions Architect on implementing integration capable of gathering data from SQL proprietary databases of companies listed on the stock market.
  • Solutions Architect on Santander Bank project for modernising infrastracture used to transfer money.

8x8 - Analytics and Statistics Platform

May 2019 - Dec 2020
  • Java Fullstack Lead for a team of 3 developers on premium product offering analytics and statistics tools for the meetings and calls 8x8 product.
  • Solutions Architect on project to modernise infrastracture and migrate functionality to distributed backend architecture.

Sofvision by Cognizant - Medical Big Data Ingestion Pipelines

May 2018 - Mar 2019
  • Senior Java Developer on distributed ingestion pipeline gathering medical data from across the globe on epidemiological risks.
  • Senior Java Developer on backend infrastracture for exposing medical data via REST APIs to Analytics Platform.

SocialBee.io | NGi Systems | Fortech

Jul 2015 - May 2018
  • Full Stack Java Developer for SocialBee.io: Integrated posting using Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn APIs.
  • Full Stack Java Developer for NGi Systems: Developed a Restaurant Management And Ordering System.
  • Full Stack Java Developer for Fortech: Built Stats Tracking Software for Medical Purposes.

Technical Proficiency

Architecture Stack

Backend

Java Scala Spring Boot Play Framework Quarkus REST APIs

Cloud

AWS Azure GCP Open Stack

System Design

Microservices Serverless Distributed Systems SQL NoSQL

Event Driven Pipelines

AWS SQS RabbitMQ Kafka

Data

PostgreSQL DynamoDB BigQuery MySQL

Frontend

JavaScript React JS AngularJS WebSockets

Education

Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-Napoca

Software Engineering, Computer Science (2012-2016)

"Mihai Eminescu" National College, Satu Mare

Highschool diploma, Mathematics and Informatics (2008-2012)