Working as a DevOps Software Engineer in Fintech looking for a part-time challenge in web development
Technology skills: • Programming languages: Java, C++, C, Python, C#, PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, Bash, Assembler • Web design: HTML5, CSS3 • Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux/Unix, Virtual Machine • Databases: Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL, MarkLogic (NoSQL) • Authoring and Design Tools: Microsoft Office, LaTeX, BibTeX • Simulation environments and testing: Concordion, TWS, TOSSIM, NS3, JUnit, Mockito & Power- Mockito • Project management tools: ServiceNow, JIRA, Bamboo • Other: Git, Jenkins, SSH/FTP, Maven, Confluence, Apache Camel, Spring, Tibco RV, TCP/IP
DevOps Software Engineer & Scrum Master - ING (Bucharest) 18th Sept 2017 - present • Working on Calypso Back Office application using Java and other technologies; while continuing to enhance business and economics acumens; Working on FX&MM aspects, with hedging, and collater-al flavours. Now focussing on cash & liquidity management aspects. • Worked with Java touching several aspects of a trade’s lifecycle, various workflows and creating re-ports. Involved in the entire development lifecycle, from business requirements gathering, to coding, testing, making sure it is production ready, and intraday and on-call production support on a rotational basis. • Agile outreach with the local and global teams (e.g: Amsterdam, Brussels, NY, Singapore offices) having become the Scrum Master of the squad. • Interested in technology innovation projects within the bank; Winner of the FMBT Hackathon 2017 and Risk&Automate Hackathon 2018. Technology Summer Analyst, FXLM - Citi (London) 20th June – 26th August 2016 • Improved business and technology awareness, as part of the Electronic Execution team, while starting from scratch an e-Trading health monitoring tool. Project meant for Technology Governance goals for the year. Used low latency and scalable code in Java, which was then tested with high code coverage. • Booked on own account shadowing sessions with various employees within the team (developers, senior developers and technical lead), and within the organisation (quants and traders) - which gave a better visibility and understanding into the different sides of the FX business. • Local and global outreach within the team, while working on an Agile Scrum basis. Technology Summer Analyst, CTS IT – Nomura (London) 22nd June – 29th August 2015 • Further improved technical skills while working, as part of the CTS IT Reference Data development team, on the initial stages of a proof of concept concerning historical data storage. It was implemented in Java, Maven, Apache Camel and MarkLogic. • Analysed on own instinct alternative approaches in order to achieve considerable performance im-provements. Performed low latency testing on data insertion and processing into the application. • Active contributor within team meetings: daily scrums, planning, reviews and retrospectives. • On own initiative shadowed employees within the team and across business units (CTS Execution/ Clearance/Settlements and Global Markets developers, research), thus gaining a broader prospective about the business, the technology systems used and how data flows within these. Technology Spring Intern, FICC & XDiv – Goldman Sachs (London) 7th - 17th April 2015 • Enhanced skills while intensively working on both the group project and individual project, across various business units in front office - FICC, Equities and XDiv, thus giving a better perspective into the different sides of the business and their respective technologies. • Opportunity to experience and be part of the culture throughout diverse activities. Technology Spring Intern – J.P.Morgan (London) 7th – 11th April 2014 • Worked in teams throughout the two days Coding Challenge on a trading application implemented in Python. Improved proactiveness while learning the Agile development techniques. • Received an excellent insight over the company and its software applications while work shadowing. Software Development Intern - Simpology Romania (Bucharest) summers of 2012 & 2014 • Developed analytical and problem solving skills while designing, building and testing web ap-plications developed with HTML 5, CSS 3, C#, ASP.NET MVC3, JavaScript, JQuery, and Entity Framework with SQL. Further enhanced skills when returning for the following summer internship. • Improved communication and teamwork skills whilst working in a team with seven other interns, while being the youngest one. Met deadlines successfully and consistently achieved outstanding re-sults, even when attending school as well during the last two weeks of the internship.
University of Warwick, BSc Computer Science
Programming and web design certificates: • European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL): Windows, Microsoft Office • Crystal Mind Academy: HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript (95 *** average) • Oracle Academy (Oracle DB) • Internship Certificate (Simpology Romania): HTML, CSS, C#, ASP.NET, JavaScript, JQuery, SQL • Informatics Professional Certificate (100 *** average): C++, web development project • Becoming Agile with Scrum, Professional Scrum Master course