Catalin L.

About Me

I am a professional Software Developer with 15 years of experience (12 years in Java) producing real business value and solutions for my clients using Java and related technologies and frameworks. I am adept with modern, up-to-date technology stacks, produce quality codes with no bugs, and 100% test coverage. I am a team lead, teacher and mentor of junior developers. I exhibit the highest level of professionalism in my own work and that of my clients.

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Backend

Database

QA & Testing

Workflow

Other

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Java Engineer, Software Developer
2018 - Present (7 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Endava
Endava
Design Lead
2017 - Present (8 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Successfully led the ideation and creation of a social payment platform for one of Endava's payment provider clients.

  • Effectively brought innovation to the process for writing quality code, performing code reviews, and architecture.

  • Instilled and established healthy continuous integration practices and procedures for different applications of Endava's clients.

Luxoft
Luxoft
Technical Lead
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Effectively developed technical and implementation plans for a core banking application in line with the new EU GDPR regulations.

  • Regularly gathered technical requirements and proposed solutions for the development cycle of various projects for the anti-financial crime department of a major investment bank.

  • Regularly liaised and worked with different technology and business groups to define the project specifications for different projects.

Societe Generale
Societe Generale
Technical Lead
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Provided guidance in developing a front to back application dealing with specific types of financial products: dynamic portfolio swaps for end users, traders and sales persons of Societe Generale.

  • Regularly provided technical support and managed a team of 6 Managers, liaised with different departments (HR to Operational Support), offered help to junior memers, and mentored interns and new recruits.

  • Acted as a technical point of contact for the front aggregator application used for booking various types of trades within Societe Generale.

ENEA
ENEA
Senior Developer
2013 - 2015 (2 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Led the development and maintenance of the in-house Eclipse distribution and plugins for the client.

  • Provided regular product/technical support to the client and end users of different products.

  • Developed, monitored, and improved all written policies, standards, and work procedures for Eclipse distribution and plugins.

Orange Romania
Orange Romania
Senior Developer
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
Romania
  • Provided technical expertise and support in developing and maintainig the websites of Orange Romania.

  • Effectively developed and maintained the internal applications for SMS notifications, voucher emission/consumption, and monitoring tools for Orange Romania.

  • Enhanced system performance through system analysis and unit tests, CIs, and testings using different tools.

King Crown Online
King Crown Online
Senior Developer
2010 - 2012 (2 years)
Romania
  • Successfully developed a payment system application for deposits, withdrawals, and reports for a client.

  • Effectively engineered an administration utility for the payment processing system application.

  • Built and deployed a middleware software to link various platforms running online games to the unified payment processing system for the client.

Luerzer’s Archive
Luerzer’s Archive
Developer
2009 - 2010 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Provided expertise and support in developing and maintaining Luerzer's Viscom website which handles about 100,000 subscriptions to the magazine.

  • Successfully built and deployed crawler programs for the efficient gathering and filtering of data on photographers and graphic artists on the web.

  • Effectively managed various scripts and procedures of applications for the sales people in Romania.

Eurospider
Eurospider
Developer
2005 - 2008 (3 years)
  • Developed and maintained small and medium WEB applications and databases for clients.

  • Completely built and maintained pre-processing tools for data sorting and analysis for the company's main search engine, and Relevancy Search.

  • Provided support and guidance in developing a Microsoft Word add-in that allows users to connect and retrieve live information from client-side databases.

Phobos Soft
Phobos Soft
Junior Developer
2002 - 2005 (3 years)
Romania
  • Successfully developed and maintained the database of Hewlett-Packard's EMEA training program.

  • Designed, developed and maintained the web application interface for Hewlett-Packard's EMEA training program database.

  • Performed various technical support tasks working in a multi-cultural environment with people from US, India, France, UK, Hungary, Ireland, Spain, Germany and Switzerland.

Showcase

Design Lead, Quantum
Design Lead, Quantum
  • A social payments platform for a payment provider client.

  • It streamlines Facebook payments, enhancing money transfer experiences.

  • The Lead played a role in both technical and architectural design.

Technical Lead, Data Retention
Technical Lead, Data Retention
  • Developing a core-banking application focused on assisting with new EU GDPR regulations.

  • The project's primary goal is to implement data retention policies as per GDPR.

  • The project involves technical leadership and data retention aspects.

Technical Lead, Demeter
Technical Lead, Demeter
  • This project involves a front-to-back application for a specialized investment banking instrument: the Dynamic Portfolio Swap.

  • The application is designed for traders and salespeople within Societe Generale.

  • The project focuses on a technical leadership role, likely involving architectural and implementation aspects.

Education

Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science - Faculty of Mathematics
Bachelor's Degree, Mathematics and Computer Science - Faculty of Mathematics
University of Bucharest
2005
Bachelor's Degree, Sociology - Faculty of Sociology and Social
Work
Bachelor's Degree, Sociology - Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
University of Bucharest
2008
Master's Degree, History and Philosophy of Science - Faculty of Philosophy
Master's Degree, History and Philosophy of Science - Faculty of Philosophy
University of Bucharest
2010
PhD, Sociology - Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
PhD, Sociology - Faculty of Sociology and Social Work
University of Bucharest
2013