About
- Five years of experience as an Engineering Manager
- More than 8 years of experience in iOS Development, four of which are in Lead positions
- Since the beginning of my career I strived towards improving my technical and social skills and taking on higher levels of responsibility
Work Experience
iOS Sr. Software Engineer, Jul 2022 - Present
Mixbook
- Contributed to rewriting the iOS app from scratch using SwiftUI and TCA
- Deep participation in company product vision activities and planning
- Helped retrain Full-Stack Senior Engineers into iOS Development
iOS Engineering Manager, Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
- Managed a team of 4 developers
- Improved team collaboration on both technical and personal level
- Improved various processes (hiring, Scrum, etc) at a company level
Engineering Manager, Jan 2017 - Aug 2021
Crunchyroll
- Jan 2017 - Dec 2020: Head of Living Room Experiences department
- Dec 2020 - Aug 2021: Head of the iOS department
- Managed teams that averaged at 10 people
- Representing the team in company's cross-team initiatives and kick-off meetings
- First, in charge of 6 projects in active development going in parallel for different platforms
- Later, responsible for developing a cross-platform solution to adopt most of the platforms
- Faciliated architectural and new technologies adoption processes
- Improved code quality and other technical standards inside the team
- Improved hiring processes
iOS Team Lead, Dec 2014 - Jan 2017
Yopeso
- Lead a long-term e-commerce project, with a team of 4 engineers and 2 QA
- Unit test coverage from 0% to 80%
- Gradually migrated from no architecture to VIPER
- Established CI/CD
- Decreased regressions by implementing proper code reviews
- Performed yearly technical reviews for the whole iOS company department (20+ developers)
- Actively contributed to hiring new developers for the iOS department
iOS Developer, Jan 2011 - Dec 2014
Various companie: Freelance, SoftInterCom, Optimum-Web, Endava
- Exposed to a corporate level of developing apps: conventions, code reviews, proper git flow
Deepened knowledge about Agile/Scrum processes
- Developed from scratch multiple apps
Languages
- Russian: Native
- Romanian: Native
- English: Advanced
- German: Basic
Education
Moldova State University
- Master's Degree, Computer Science, 2012-2014
- Bachelor Degree, Computer Science, 2008-2011
Conference Talks
- DeveloperMD Offline 2014: Fail IT, “Failing in Mobile testing”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
- DeveloperMD Offline 2015: I Code IT, “Healthy mind in a healthy code”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
- Codeway 2015, “Healthy mind in a healthy code”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
- Romobos 2016, “Fast paced delivery with a fast paced client”, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Codecamp 2017, “Beyond Engineering”, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
- Romobos 2018, "Beyond Engineering", Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Sales & Leadership, Southwestern Advantage
Southwestern Advantage
- Ran my own business during each summer with relocation to Memphis, TN, USA.
- Executed all the door-to-door cold-calling, presentations, order collection, inventorying, sales, accounting, planning and delivery
Student Manager and Independent Contractor, Sep 2010 - Sep 2011
- Managed own selected team and helped managed other students from organization through 10 weeks of door-to-door sales
- During the year participated in multiple sales, success, and leadership trainings in Chisinau and Prague
- Improved personal sales Y/Y more than 30% in retail.
Independent Contractor, Sep 2009 - Sep 2010
- During the year participated in multiple trainings, constantly preparing for the summer sales
- Generated more than 13,000$ in retail in 3 months.
