Professional Experience
A chronological journey through my roles in technical leadership and software engineering.
Technical Leader
01/2025 – 03/2026CloudEBS
Traffic Tax / E-Commerce
Technical leadership of a ground-up rebuild of the Romania Traffic Tax Control System (eTarifare V2), covering architecture, backend engineering management and delivery.
- Rebuilt and delivered eTarifare V2 from scratch, improving performance, maintainability and security.
- Designed scalable architecture for complex, high-stakes features and enforced Laravel best practices, design patterns and code quality across the team.
- Led a small backend engineering team through architectural proposals, code reviews and delivery milestones.
- Integrated third-party payment gateway flows and microservice architectures.
Co-Founder / Lead Technical Architect
01/2022 – 06/2023CardFly (Startup)
SaaS / Social Connection
Co-founded a SaaS startup delivering web and mobile applications, social connection features and automated data crawling pipelines, taking features from concept to production.
- Built and launched the CardFly SaaS platform from concept to market.
- Brainstormed, researched and designed feature architectures from scratch.
- Engineered high-volume data crawling systems and user-facing web applications.
- Built the full-stack architecture, automated CI/CD deployment pipelines and server infrastructure.
- Co-led product strategy, design and engineering in a team of 1–5, and optimized features continuously after launch.
Senior Software Engineer / Technical Solutions Architect
08/2016 – 03/2026Freelancer
E-Commerce / Workspace / ERP
Independent technical consulting delivering web applications, e-commerce solutions, enterprise web scrapers and backend APIs, with end-to-end ownership from client communication to post-launch support.
- Delivered 9+ years of full-stack projects for international and domestic clients.
- Gathered requirements directly from clients and business analysts to plan roadmaps and release cycles.
- Built custom web systems, Shopify templates and plugins, EC-CUBE e-commerce extensions, workspace platforms and enterprise data crawlers (Book Ascom, Zebra Shop, Stylist Shop, POD Workspace, Twitter/Amazon crawlers).
- Designed multi-tenant e-commerce extensions and scalable crawling engines for Amazon and Twitter data.
- Configured cloud infrastructure, deployment scripts and database models, and provided post-release maintenance and documentation.
Senior Engineer
01/2020 – 01/2021Solar Reviews
Renewable Energy
Backend API development, legacy refactoring and CRM integration for a US and Australian renewable energy platform offering solar estimation calculators and lead routing.
- Built and optimized backend API endpoints for solar calculator applications.
- Refactored legacy PHP modules to modern design patterns, improving stability and execution speed.
- Upgraded the legacy platform infrastructure without operational downtime.
- Integrated backend services with enterprise CRM platforms, streamlining lead handling through automation.
- Collaborated with remote backend and product engineering teams (team of 4).
Senior Software Engineer
01/2019 – 01/2020Paradox Olivia (Vietnam Da Nang Branch)
AI Conversational Recruiting
Full-stack engineering and core-module refactoring on the live production system of Olivia, an enterprise AI conversational recruiting platform (acquired by Workday).
- Refactored core, highly abstract system modules in a live production environment supporting a 30+ engineer organization.
- Built reusable foundation modules for cross-team development.
- Optimized live production performance and improved stability for high-volume automated candidate communication.
- Integrated external messaging channels using Twilio and MessageBird SMS/voice APIs.
Team Leader
09/2019 – 12/2019Unisoft
Enterprise Applications (Japanese Clients)
Led a team of 5 engineers delivering a production process management system for Japanese enterprise clients.
- Reviewed Business Analyst designs against strict Japanese quality standards and identified missing requirements.
- Cleared technical blockers, distributed tasks and reported team progress to project management.
- Optimized database stored procedures.
- Resolved critical project bottlenecks and delivered every milestone on time.
Senior Software Engineer
01/2018 – 01/2019CGSoft
Applicant Tracking Systems / Recruitment
Senior backend engineering on data-extraction pipelines and automated job synchronization for a US firm specializing in applicant tracking systems (ATS) and recruitment platforms.
- Maintained and extended Recruiting.com ATS integration systems.
- Designed Selenium and XPath crawling engines to ingest job posting data at scale.
- Architected scalable crawling database models for multi-site ATS data.
- Debugged daily synchronization failures and implemented automated monitoring, trigger fixes and pipeline fallback mechanisms.
- Collaborated with a 5-person engineering team focused on data reliability.
Senior Software Engineer
01/2016 – 03/2017Suzutek VN
Enterprise Software (Japanese Clients)
Backend development of scalable services for Japanese enterprise clients at a Japanese offshore engineering center.
- Co-created a reusable full-stack starter kit on CakePHP and AngularJS, adopted across company projects.
- Built core framework abstractions that reduced project setup time and standardized maintainability across teams.
- Worked in a 5-person agile pod on a hotel management starter platform.
Software Engineer / Team Leader / Project Manager
01/2015 – 06/2016Software Development Center (SDC)
Education / Mobile / Social Networks
Software engineer, team leader, project manager and business analyst across concurrent web and mobile projects at an educational software and outsourcing center.
- Delivered 5 concurrent web and mobile platform projects under tight deadlines (QTRAX, DoTalk, Ubest Education, YearStar Social, TuiHat Karaoke).
- Translated client requirements into UML diagrams, technical specifications and user stories.
- Led backend development with Java Spring MVC and PHP Laravel, and coordinated iOS, Android and backend teams.
- Scheduled sprints and release milestones, managing cross-functional teams of 3–10 members.
Backend Developer
01/2012 – 01/2013Ecomlogy
Consumer Mobile Apps
Built the mobile backend for a Canadian consumer-choice app startup from scratch as a Java backend developer.
- Designed and delivered the backend platform from zero for the initial application release.
- Architected RESTful API endpoints for native mobile consumption.
- Configured backend web servers and database schemas.
- Collaborated asynchronously across time zones in a team of 3.
Software Engineer
01/2012 – 01/2013Unitech Corp
E-Government
Web developer building public-sector administrative portals and enterprise workflow modules for e-government clients.
- Implemented government administration system modules using Java and Liferay Portal.
- Researched and integrated eGovFrame and Orbeon e-forms standards.
- Digitized regional public service procedures, deployed for municipal portals.
- Worked within project groups of 7 to 50 team members.
Software Engineer
11/2011 – 01/2012 | 11/2013 – 01/2014HTK-INC
VoIP Communication / E-Commerce
Backend development of core Java application architectures for an outsourcing firm specializing in VoIP communication logs and enterprise e-commerce, serving US and Australian clients.
- Engineered layered Spring MVC backend structures and integrated NoSQL and relational databases (Stylios Online Shopping, layered communication system).
- Built a baseline architecture module that met client specifications and helped secure long-term client contracts.
- Worked alongside 5 to 10 engineers in an offshore development setup.
Technical Philosophy
"I focus on building resilient systems that balance modernization with business stability, ensuring long-term maintainability through clean architecture and robust automation."