Description

As an Engineering Manager at Deloitte Digital, I lead globally distributed cross-functional teams of up to 18 people, delivering high-impact digital solutions across public and private sector clients. Led the technical delivery of the UK government public health platform – the world's most complex pandemic response health portal – ensuring 24/7 availability, regulatory compliance, and rapid feature deployment.With 6+ years in back-end development, DevOps, and GenAI implementations, I architect scalable microservices and APIs (Java, Scala) for high-traffic applications (100k+ daily users). As a 3x AWS and Kubernetes Certified Administrator, I've designed CI/CD pipelines that reduced deployment time by 40% and application time-to-live by 50%.I pioneer enterprise AI adoption, recently delivering clients' first GenAI solutions for document validation and establishing GenAI working groups that secured funding for multiple strategic initiatives. My focus on team development, quality improvement, and strategic stakeholder engagement drives both technical excellence and business growth.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual
Romanian
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Dubai City (up to 50km)

Deloitte Digital
Engineering Manager
June 2024 - Today (2 years)
United Kingdom
• Currently leading Operational Acceptance Testing (OAT) for a major financial institution's web and mobile applications across performance, security, disaster recovery, and operational readiness. Introduced new engineering standards for logging/alerting while creating comprehensive operational runbooks from scratch.
• Previously directed 3 globally distributed cross-functional teams (18 people) across development, testing, and business analysis for the UK government's pandemic response platform. Ensured 99.9% platform availability and regulatory compliance while delivering rapid feature deployments and maintaining zero-downtime operations throughout critical national health emergencies.
• Expanded client engagement through roadmap development and stakeholder presentations, liaising with 4 suppliers to manage scope variations. Secured £1.5M funding for multiple work streams including GenAI implementations, resulting in project expansion and approval for 2 enterprise AI initiatives.
• Pioneered GenAI adoption for the client by architecting an automated document validation service using Java Spring Boot, AWS, GCP and 3rd party APIs. Achieved 97% precision while minimising manual verification across global operations, delivering substantial cost savings and reducing compliance exposure.
• Delivered a secure data querying platform for public sector health departments, enabling self-service pandemic response data analysis. Designed Java Spring Boot/React microservices allowing complex queries in minutes with SQL injection protection, creating capability where none existed previously.
Java artificial intelligence Amazon Web Services API REST Microservices
Deloitte Digital
Technical Lead
June 2022 - June 2024 (2 years)
United Kingdom
• Designed scalable ML-powered APIs including a translation service that reduced developer effort from 2 year to 3 weeks for 15-language content delivery (99% cost reduction), and phone validation service eliminating SMS delivery to invalid numbers, generating significant annual savings.
• Established quality and security standards through SonarQube (code coverage) and Trivy (vulnerability detection), monitoring KPIs and resolving bottlenecks via root cause analysis. Led Helm implementation and Jenkins pipeline overhaul, reducing deployment time by 40% and SLA time-to-live by 50%.
• Coached and mentored junior software engineers, resulting in 3 promotions within 1 year. Promoted an environment focused on continuous improvement and psychological safety, leading to high team retention.
• Partnered with leadership to revamp project planning processes, restructuring the backlog into clear Epics and streamlined work items, bringing clarity to long-term vision and delivery roadmap.
Jenkins Helm CI/CD Management Java Python
Deloitte Digital,
Software Engineer
October 2019 - June 2022 (2 years and 8 months)
United Kingdom
• Developed and maintained Scala microservices for high-traffic UK government platforms serving 100k+ daily users, delivering critical public service features while maintaining platform stability and uptime.
• Implemented real-time monitoring using Grafana, Dynatrace and Kibana, reducing incident response time by 40%. Served as Level 3 escalation for production incidents, successfully resolving critical issues including a major outage affecting 30k users.
• Created automated reporting pipelines using Jenkins that eliminated 2 days of manual data compilation per month (24 days annually). Managed daily platform releases across 2 projects, ensuring consistent and timely deployment cycles.
• Generated £15k in annual AWS cost savings by optimising test and development RDS instances through strategic downscaling and right-sizing, maintaining environment performance while eliminating unnecessary spend.
• Automated infrastructure provisioning using Terraform, eliminating manual deployment work and ensuring consistent configuration across multiple environments, reducing setup time and configuration errors.