Catalin L.

Catalin L.

Senior Software Engineer

Bucharest, Romania
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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.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Java Engineer, Software Developer
2018 - Present (6 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 (7 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.

Portfolio

Design Lead, Quantum
Design Lead, Quantum

Social payments platform for one of Endava’s payment provider clients. It takes the payment experience on facebook making it easier for people to send money to each other. Acted as Design Lead which meant 50% technical lead and 50% architect.

Technical Lead, Data Retention
Technical Lead, Data Retention

The project involved developing a core-banking application whose purpose is to help with the new EU GDPR norms.

Technical Lead, Demeter
Technical Lead, Demeter

A front-to-back application managing a special type of investment banking instrument, the Dynamic Portfolio Swap. The end users are traders and salespeople within Societe Generale.

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
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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