I build technology that supports business strategy, not the other way around.
I take on the work most leaders avoid: diagnosing when architecture has become an existential business threat, then leading the transformation without breaking the business in flight. I’ve led teams in regulated industries where downtime has real consequences, scaled engineering organizations through hypergrowth, and shipped platforms that displaced incumbents at global enterprises.
Bucharest-based. 24+ years in software.
Selected work
CTO, eJobs (2017 to present)
Led a multi-year monolith to microservices migration on Kubernetes (Go, Python, TypeScript). Scaled the engineering org from 7 to 20+. Established a Machine Learning department shipping production matching and personalization. 99.9%+ uptime through the transformation. Migrated the edge to Cloudflare and moved infra to GitOps, dropping environment provisioning from months to minutes.
CTO, EveryMatrix (2016 to 2017)
Mission-critical real-money gaming platform under ISO 27001 and gaming licensing regimes. 40 engineers across 3 international studios; principal architect for 4 product lines. Introduced React, Redux, GraphQL; established disaster recovery for 24/7 customer-facing systems.
Co-founder & CTO, Kalon (2014 to 2016)
Scaled tech from 0 to 100. Displaced Adobe Experience Manager to become McDonald’s Global digital infrastructure partner: recruitment (mylocalmcds.com), marketing allocation, real-time sales analytics, brand-asset approval workflows.
Software Development Consultant (2013 to 2014)
Helped SecurityCoverage (US) launch their iOS department.
Founder, TreatDrop (2012 to 2013)
Mobile payments and rewards app.
Business Development Manager, certSIGN (2011 to 2012)
UTI Group mobile security products.
Development Director, EA Mobile (2008 to 2011)
Production of 20+ EA games across J2ME, BREW, Android, iOS.
Director, Deployment Engineering, EA Mobile (2007 to 2008)
EMEA mobile deployment operations.
Lead Engineer, EA Mobile (2006 to 2007)
Porting EA games to J2ME and BREW.
Earlier: Lead Engineer at Advanced Mobile Applications, Software Engineer at Cyclop, System Administrator at Medianet, Software Engineer at Necomm.
How I work
Cloud & infra. Kubernetes, containerization, GitOps, CI/CD, SRE mindset. AWS, GCP, Hetzner, on-prem.
Ways of working. Agile / Kanban, cross-functional product teams, DevOps culture.
Leadership. Hiring, mentoring, performance, stakeholder management, consensus through evidence.
Education
B.Sc., Computer Science & Automatic Control, “Gh. Asachi” Technical University, Iași (1998 to 2004). Thesis: real-time spoken-text recognition.
Languages
English, Italian, Romanian (advanced). Danish, French, German, Spanish (intermediate). Norwegian (beginner).
Contact
[email protected] · LinkedIn · GitHub · Medium · Facebook