Remus A.

Remus A.

Technical Development Manager

Bucharest, Romania
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About Me

Remus is a highly-experienced Technical Development Manager with over 16 years of actively working in software development. He has held multiple positions ranging from open source contributor to software company owner and manager, from systems technician and developer to architect and researcher. Remus has hands-on experience in working collaboratively with clients/users, the development team, and various stakeholders within the company to ensure the delivery of all products in an efficient, timely manner.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Technical Development Manager
2020 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Create the list of backlog items and prioritize them based on the overall strategy and business objectives and making the list accessible and available to all stakeholders.

  • Overseeing the product development and permanently communicate with the development team for planning, reviewing and refining the requirements.

  • Acting as primary communicator and link between stakeholders. Prioritizing the needs in terms of product features and align them with the stakeholders feedback.

Commuter Club
Commuter Club
Head of Engineering/Systems Architect
2018 - 2020 (2 years)
Romania
  • Led and mentored a team of multidisciplinary developers in support of the platform’s core business initiatives and goals.

  • Extended, redesigned, implemented and enhanced existing in house developed software to enable growth at scale as well as acquiring new verticals.

  • Designed and implemented integrations with several key technical partnerships for core business growth in the finance and lending space – achieved via utilization of third-party APIs and custom-built robotic process automation (RPA) mechanisms.

 Pionix Marketing Solutions
Pionix Marketing Solutions
General Technical Manager
2013 - 2017 (4 years)
Romania
  • Oversaw all technical and technology related operations for all company’s departments, including Project Management, Project Planning, development staff acquisition, Product Lifecycle Management & Design, technology research, development and implementation.

  • Led and implemented the initiative for mobile streaming support research, bringing live video streaming to mobile clients in-browser across all platforms as well as natively, through platform specific apps (for Android and iOS).

  • Performed refactoring and close source code control and quality verification, improving the entire system’s performance, resulting in better user experience, that in turn resulted in improved conversion rates for the specific products.

Colibris
Co-Founder/Managing Partner
2012 - 2014 (2 years)
Romania
  • Developed and launched an in-house project for eCommerce SaaS in the Romanian webspace. Oversaw project design, implementation, maintenance; market research and analysis, general financial planning, roadmapping and prediction; marketing analysis, planning and implementation; social campaign building and general interaction/maintenance.

  • Delegated all aspects of Social presence, SEO, content, desktop and mobile optimization and implementation, billing, product strategy, product lifecycle and product roadmap planning, analytics and tracking.

  • Oversaw, implemented and optimized internal operations regarding logistics, warehousing, and merchandise lifecycles.

DevTich
DevTich
Technical Project Manager
2012 - 2012
Romania
  • Oversaw all aspects of product and project design and implementation for one of the company’s Oslo based clients, specializing in Dating and Networking sites.

  • Participated in business and product analysis for the design and implementation of a new Dating platform to be integrated and added to the client company’s existing portfolio.

  • Oversaw the product development teams, based in Romania, The Netherlands, Ukraine, and Russia for the implementation of a PHP/CodeIgniter based solution for the client’s dating platform.

ZedMedia
ZedMedia
System Architect/PHP Developer
2011 - 2012 (1 year)
Romania
  • Opened the Bucharest office consisting of a cross-functional team of PHP Developers, Flash/ FLEX Developers, Designers and QA personnel.

  • Participated in all areas of conceptualization, design, implementation and maintenance of new Python and PHP based video streaming and live audio-video streaming solutions based on Flash / FLEX / Wowza in conjunction with PHP / Python (Django) technologies for use on desktop and mobile clients.

  • Analyzed, designed and implemented complex backend systems for load balancing, conversion and organization of video content – high load application used for video conversion and CDN / Cloud Storage, handling all of the company’s PHP sites user generated content; great accent on scalability, performance and efficiency.

IMC Romania
IMC Romania
Development Manager
2011 - 2011
Romania
  • Served as primary point of contact and led the Romanian and Amsterdam Offices for the company.

  • Led development teams of PHP, Flash, FLEX, FMS developers alongside QA and DevOps Engineers.

  • Developed very high traffic social platforms for standalone deployment and reuse as an incremental update for all the company’s brands

Online Tourism
Technical Manager
2009 - 2010 (1 year)
Romania
  • Developed and implemented special purpose ecommerce solutions for Tourism and Travel with integrated solutions for internal management.

  • Integrated several third-party global travel and reservation systems into the travel portals.

  • Created systems to make information and reservation procedures available only in back-end portals usable by final clients.

AJF Online
AJF Online
Co-Founder/Chief Technology Officer
2009 - 2010 (1 year)
Romania
  • Implemented a national project for the Romanian Football Federation, a complex management system combining CRM & ERP, CMS, social media, intranet and communications.

  • Developed a system that consists of 40+ media-intensive websites interconnected to a central database and communication system.

  • Managed design to increase velocity and expand product mix, based on identified opportunities within the market.

Phoenix
Phoenix
Founder/Software Engineer
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
Romania
  • Developed a general purpose proprietary framework for ease of implementation and development of all the company’s projects.

  • Developed corporate and dynamic websites and web applications based on PHP / Linux, as well as intranet applications and telecommunication systems.

  • Created several corporate identity and logotypes for national and foreign clients as part of the DTP department.

KM0
KM0
Technical Consultant
2008 - 2009 (1 year)
Romania
  • Developed a highly secure intranet application for management of financial operations specific to banking and money exchange.

  • Created multiple features, including exchange, accounting, review, issue resolution and communication tied in with location security and monitoring systems.

  • Resolved logged errors, as well as ensuring system security and encryption.

Laris Productions
Laris Productions
Web Development Consultant
2008 - 2008
Romania
  • Developed and maintained the presentation portfolio and CMS solution for an online and offline advertising agency.

  • Deployed the application on dedicated hardware running RedHat and a LAMP stack highly tuned for large file storage and distribution.

  • Oversaw live deployment of the website and enhanced website performance.

SDV
SDV
Technical Manager
2007 - 2009 (2 years)
Romania
  • Oversaw the transition of the entire processes from traditional media to web by creating a special targeted news portal and socialization platform running under LAMP.

  • Managed computer network infrastructure and ensured network security.

  • Closely collaborated with development teams and departments, as well as offered mentorship and training to junior developers.

Various Companies
Web Developer/Network Engineer
2005 - 2007 (2 years)
Romania
  • Developed and maintained a community website using multiple technologies, as well as platform modules for internal usage - CMS.

  • Contributed to the upgrade and maintenance of the internal networking infrastructure.

  • Installed, deployed, and maintained Windows based machine hosts for both clients and internal stations, and also Layer 1,2,3 networking infrastructure via CAT5 / Fiber and Linux servers.

Education

Professional Scrum Master; Professional Scrum Developer; Atlassian JIRA: Installation, Administration and  Development Management; PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments) Project Management
Professional Scrum Master; Professional Scrum Developer; Atlassian JIRA: Installation, Administration and Development Management; PRINCE2 (PRojects IN Controlled Environments) Project Management
Courses
LFCS&LFCE–TheLinuxFoundation; MySQLDeveloper&DatabaseAdministration ‐ Oracle; CCNA ‐ Cisco; ECDLAdvanced–ECDLFoundation
LFCS&LFCE–TheLinuxFoundation; MySQLDeveloper&DatabaseAdministration ‐ Oracle; CCNA ‐ Cisco; ECDLAdvanced–ECDLFoundation
Licenses & certifications