Experience
Experience
Nearly two decades of building and evolving enterprise systems.
- July 2024 – Present
Solutions Architect
Galenica · Bern, Switzerland
- Own solution architecture across four engineering teams
- Define target architecture and ensure alignment with enterprise standards
- Lead technical proof of concepts to evaluate new platforms and technologies
- Collaborate with implementation partners and external vendors
- Drive infrastructure cost optimization initiatives at department level
- Contribute to budget forecasting and technology investment planning
- Review and validate architectural decisions across teams
- Support recruitment through technical interviews
- Identify optimization opportunities in cloud, infrastructure and platform usage
- Impact: improved cost transparency and reduced infrastructure spend
- Impact: increased architectural consistency across teams
- Impact: accelerated technology decision-making through structured POCs
- February 2022 – June 2024
Lead Software Engineer
EPAM Systems · Zurich, Switzerland
- Led Azure cloud migration of a microservices-based banking platform
- Acted as technical bridge between business and engineering teams
- Stabilized production systems while enabling feature expansion
- Orchestrated Kubernetes-based deployment strategy
- July 2021 – June 2024
People Team Lead
EPAM Systems · Zurich, Switzerland
- Managed and mentored a team of engineers, supporting career development and performance growth
- Conducted regular 1:1s, feedback cycles and development planning
- Contributed to retention strategy and talent allocation
- Acted as liaison between engineering staff and management
- Strengthened team stability during large-scale banking transformation initiatives
- January 2021 – January 2022
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer
EPAM Systems · Zurich, Switzerland
- Full stack development of a fraud detection platform for a Swiss investment bank
- May 2015 – December 2020
Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead
Tacit Knowledge · Chisinau, Moldova
- Delivered enterprise e-commerce solutions for European and US brands
- Led architecture and development of SAP Hybris-based platforms
- Migrated infrastructure to Google Cloud, improving scalability and cost efficiency
- Resolved performance and security incidents in high-traffic production environments
- May 2014 – April 2015
Senior Software Engineer
John Wiley and Sons · London Area, United Kingdom
- Developed backend services for Wiley Online Library
- Applied BDD/TDD practices in a large-scale publishing platform
- December 2008 – April 2014
Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead
Endava · London, United Kingdom; Chisinau, Moldova
- Delivered banking and e-commerce systems across the UK and Moldova
- Led technical design, development and production support
- Managed teams and contributed to architectural decisions
- December 2007 – October 2008
Java Developer
Vingenio Software · Chișinău, Moldova
- - VoIP systems - Remote Desktop application for server management applications (using VNC)
- July 2007 – December 2007
Software Engineer
Self employed · Chișinău, Moldova
- Development of a blogging website
- January 2007 – July 2007
PHP Developer
Academy of Sciences of Moldova · Chisinau, Moldova
- Website development for the Academy of Sciences of Moldova