about
1984-05-04
Ringvägen 1
SE-133 39 Saltsjöbaden
Swedenpersonality
languages
- full professional English (TOEFL)
- professional working Swedish
- native Romanian
programming
- since 7 years old
- Commodore 64 Basic
- Q-Basic
- Pascal
- C++
- FoxPro
- Perl
- VBScript
- PHP
- MySQL
- …
- networking (CISCO)
- JavaScript & co.
- BASH
- Prolog
- Erlang & co.
- finite state machines
- HTTP
- founded for-GET HTTP
- REST
- founded HyperREST
- PEG grammars, ABNF, IETF, RFC
- web extensions
- serverless
- data modelling
- ETL
- warehouse
- analytics
- Docker
- AWS
- CI/CD
- Y Software AB
- …
- you name it
- but more importantly,
- I'm an automation geek
- doing the hard things
2022 - ____
Blocket AB, Stockholm, Engineering Manager
Part of Schibsted Nordic Marketplaces. Blocket is Sweden's biggest marketplace.
Tech Data Platform | Schibsted Nordic Marketplaces
Engineering Manager (unofficially also Technical Product Manager) for data engineering/warehouse teams in Blocket Sweden and Schibsted Marketplaces Finland. We collectively work in a wide tech stack, covering Airflow, AWS/EC2/Fargate/Lambda, dbt, Exasol, Github Actions, IaC/Pulumi/Terraform, Matillion, Tableau, Terraform, and support a wide range of use cases in the spirit of platform engineering: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime."
Schibsted Nordic Marketplaces is a new organization bringing together all marketplaces in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and brands like Blocket, DBA, Finn, Oikotie and Tori to name a few. Tech Data Platform | Schibsted Nordic Marketplaces Engineering Manager (unofficially also Technical Product Manager) for data engineering/warehouse teams in Blocket Sweden and Schibsted Marketplaces Finland. We collectively work in a wide tech stack, covering Airflow, AWS/EC2/Fargate/Lambda, dbt, Exasol, Github Actions, IaC/Pulumi/Terraform, Matillion, Tableau, Terraform, and support a wide range of use cases in the spirit of platform engineering: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime." Schibsted Nordic Marketplaces is a new organization bringing together all marketplaces in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden and brands like Blocket, DBA, Finn, Oikotie and Tori to name a few.
Skills: People Management · Servant Leadership · Data Engineering · Change Management · Engineering Management · Product Management
2021 - ____
Y Software AB, Saltsjöbaden, Founder
Consultant. Self-employed
2020 - 2021
Tobii Pro AB, Stockholm, Senior Software Engineer
Consultant
2020 - 2020
Normative/Meta Mind AB, Stockholm, Lead Backend Engineer
Normative is about "Sustainability Reporting Made Really Easy".
2016 - 2020
Tobii Pro AB, Stockholm, Software Engineer in AdTech (Lead)
I'm a central part of Tobii Pro Pulse.
Pulse is a unique service that captures >5GB worth of online attention data a day,
from >1200 people that are passively browsing the Swedish online,
extensively monitoring metrics related to the ads and brands that they are exposed to.
See example
From a technical perspective this means I have successfully:
- developed a complex browser WebExtension that monitors areas of interests (specifically, but not technically limited to ads) on any website, gathering metrics, meta and eyetracking data on an event-driven and message-intensive platform.
- implemented a high-load ingestion pipeline on Amazon Web Services via API Gateway, Lambda, SQS, S3, Kinesis, Firehose
- set up a data analytics pipeline on AWS via S3 and Athena
- contributed to a data retrieval API on AWS via API Gateway, Lambda, Athena
- contributed to monitoring solutions via CloudWatch and Datadog, along with Slack integrations
- bootstrapped and contributed to a dashboard solution using Auth0, Vuejs and Chartjs that uses modular data retrieval. Hosted on AWS S3 and CloudFrontTobii Pro is the research solution division within Tobii.
We help business and science professionals gain real insights into human behavior with leading eye tracking solutions and services.aws, gitops, devops, infrastructure as code, http, node.js, es6/typescript, travisci/circleci/github-actions/teamcity/jenkins/katt, git, erlang
2016 - 2020
Tobii Pro AB, Stockholm, Platform Engineer on AWS (Lead)
I have successfully set up the grounds of Tobii Pro's Cloud Services and CI/CD, like (but not limited to):
- set the team up on Amazon Web Services from ~scratch
- - infrastructure as code all the way using CloudFormation, see more info
following an idea from Google Cloud Platform actually (generate json/yaml templates with real code; a back-to-basics version of AWS CDK if you will)
- - IAM by the book, see more info
- - set up several projects with serverless (AWS Lambda) environments, utilizing services like: Nodejs/Babel/Typescript/Python Lambdas, Lambda Layers, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, S3, DynamoDB, Athena, Kinesis, Firehose, SQS, SNS, CloudFront, API Gateway, Route53
- set up a modular and language-independent build system based on GNU Make, see more info
- set up CI/CD solutions
- - currently on TravisCI and Github
- - previously TeamCity pipelines
- set up crypto/secrets solutions via GPG, Keybase, transcryptTobii Pro is the research solution division within Tobii.
We help business and science professionals gain real insights into human behavior with leading eye tracking solutions and services.aws, gitops, devops, infrastructure as code, http, node.js, es6/typescript, travisci/circleci/github-actions/teamcity/jenkins/katt, git, erlang
2014 - 2016
Cisco Systems AB, Stockholm, Software Engineer in Networking
Switched focus to backend and infrastructure duties, like:
- Erlang-based JSON-RPC API design and implementation
- set up Jenkins infrastructure and delivery pipeline for Continuous Integration
- switch development environment from SVN to GIT
- set up GIT on Atlassian Stash/BitBucket Server and Gitolite
- toolingStill engineering Tail-f NCS, but within Cisco's Cloud & Virtualization Group.
Cisco acquired Tail-f in 2014 - read more.erlang, yaws, http, json-rpc, yang, jenkins/bitten/lux/katt, multi vcs (svn, git, git-svn), multi platform…
2013 - 2016
Tail-f Systems AB, Stockholm, UI Developer
Engineering Tail-f NCS with a mix of frontend/backend duties.
sencha/extjs, coffeescript, node.js, erlang, http, json-rpc, yang, jenkins/bitten/lux/katt, multi vcs (svn, git, git-svn), multi platform…
2001 - 2014
Life-Link Friendship-Schools, Uppsala, IT handyman
Front- and backoffice duties. Designing and engineering 3 major websites.
php, asp, perl, css, js, sencha, photoshop, cms
2011 - 2013
Klarna AB, Stockholm, Developer in FinTech
Engineering Klarna Checkout - full-blown front/backend
FSM prototype, interaction and API documentation, GUI.Engineering support tools and designing the [Klarna Checkout REST API](https://developer in FinTechs.klarna.com/documentation/klarna-checkout/) and other REST APIs.
rest, http, hypermedia, api, js, coffeescript, sdk, gui, ux, i18n, l10n, testing, scripting, erlang
2010 - 2011
Media & News Stockholm AB, Stockholm, System Developer
Engineering a customized social network on top of SocialEngine.
php, mysql, css, js, mootools, jquery, zend framework, socialengine
2002 - 2003
Island Media Project Manager, Developer
php, mysql, i18n, l10n, cmd, premiere, delphi
2000 - 2005
miscellaneous Web Developer/Designer
2002 - 2005
IslandM.U.N.G.A. , Isle of Wight,GBR 2002 - 2004
Romanian Red Cross, Galati,ROU 2004 - 2004
Data-Soft S.A., Galati,ROU 2000 - 2004
Colegiul National "Vasile Alecsandri", Galati,ROU perl, php, css, mysql, js, photoshop
2020 - 2021
rokmoln Father
A Github organization covering GIT setups, cross-platform CI/CD, cross-platform build system, cross-cloud infrastructure as code. The organization's code is now managed by Y Software AB.
gitops, aws, cloud, devops, ci, cd, gnu, make, bash, linux, darwin, windows, git
2013 - 2021
for-GET HTTP Father
A Github organization covering PEG grammars, ASTs, parsegens, HTTP algorithms and an FSM for a non-opinionated and comprehensive-spec-coverage HTTP framework, focusing on semantics, and less on the syntax. The organization's code will soon be managed by Y Software AB.
HTTP, PEG, grammar, AST, parser, generator, FSM, server, coffeescript, nodejs, webmachine, erlang
2012 - 2021
HyperREST Father
A Github organization covering a set of blog posts and software focused on how-to envision-spec-mock-consume-serve a REST/hypermedia API. The organization's code is now managed by Y Software AB.
REST, API, HTTP, hypermedia, client, server, coffeescript, nodejs
2009 - 2010
Snowdrop Father
Snowdrop is an academic Information System that merges information from various course management systems in order to provide quick access to vital student information, like messages and schedule.
squace, browser, php, xml, mobile, data mining
2009 - 2009
Promote Knowledge Management Concept
A series of videos playing with audio, video and concepts in order to highlight a knowledge management course.
2008 - 2009
Induction to Kista IT University - KTH & SU Facilitator
knowledge management, wiki, facebook
2008 - 2009
Support Community for studera.nu Facilitator
knowledge management, wiki, facebook
2008 - 2010
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, M.Sc.
Engineering and Management of Information Systems.
Data Warehousing, Web mining, Logic Programming, Knowledge Management, ERP Systems, Requirements Engineering, etc.
2007 - 2007
University of Humanities and Economics, Lodz, Erasmus
Corporate Finance Management, H.R. Management, Social Role of Media, Public Discourses, Conflicts and International Negotiations
2004 - 2008
Romanian-American University, Bucharest, B.Sc.
Computer Science for Business Management. Graduated with the highest GPA in the programme.
Database, Programming, Web programming, Networking, IT System Design, Expert Systems, Strategic Management, Probability Calculus, Numerical Methods, Statistics, Accounting, Finances, etc.
2010
Course Analytics Master Thesis
Leveraging course assessment through data mining of student satisfaction
academic quality, academic evaluation, service satisfaction, educational data mining, importance-performance analysis, teaching effectiveness, php, squace, xml
2009
Split Infinitives in Prolog (copy)Published in Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management
split infinitives, logic programming, prolog
2009
Alignment of Business and IS/IT Strategy at Telenor Sweden (copy)Published in Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management
strategic alignment, IS/IT strategy, business strategy, organizational strategy, case study, Telenor
2009
Science is a runner. Philosophy?philosophy, science, essay
2009
Towards Enhanced E-collaboration in Academia (copy)Published in Journal of Information Systems & Operations Management
e-collaboration, academia, requirements, boundaries, holistic
2008
Web 2.0 Application for Medical Clinique Management Honors Thesis
2001 - 2007
. Delegate, Speaker
international citizenship, sustainability, youth engagement
2007
UNESCO ASPnet Conference, Amman,JOR 2007
Life-Link Friendship-Schools Conference, Sigtuna,SWE 2007
UNESCO ASPnet Training Workshop, Amman,JOR 2006
Global Education Week preparatory meeting, Sinaia,ROU 2003
International Peace Bureau’s Conference, Athens,GRC 2003
IslandM.U.N.G.A. , Isle of Wight,GBR 2002
Peace Festival, Cluj-Napoca,ROU 2002
BratMUN , Bratislava,SVK 2001
Life-Link Friendship-Schools Conference, Sigtuna,SWE
2002 - 2006
. Group Leader
event planning, youth engagement
2006
Where do I belong to II, Norfolk,GBR 2005
Where do I belong to, Brno,CZE 2003
IslandM.U.N.G.A. , Isle of Wight,GBR 2002
IslandM.U.N.G.A. , Isle of Wight,GBR