Short articles on strategy, leadership, team organization, mentoring & more.

• The Blue Ocean Strategy

• A Pattern for Scaling Teams

• Improving Retention: A Product-Led Approach

• Reverse Engineer The Problem When You Are Faced With A Solution

• An Approach to Mentor Product Managers

• What Is So Difficult About Crossing the Chasm?

• Lean Testing: How To Start

& more to come...

Short articles on Web3, cryptocurrency and the metaverse.

• Main Changes to Product Management aspects in Web 3

& more to come...

I am proud to say that I continue my learning journey on new technologies, being interested in the new trends such as Web 3, with its set of encompassing technologies: Blockchain, Crypto, DeFi and last and not least, NFTs, which, in my opinion, are set to disrupt many industries in the years to come.

430+ pages of summarized experiences in projects, material to learn for the PMP exam and a concrete bridge to transition from classical project management to agile approaches.

SeniorJava Developer

Team Lead

Tech. Project Manager

Software Architect

I started my career as a software developer in 1999 in Romania with a project based assignment in FoxPro. During my university years, I found a real passion for the Java programming language, although I used to study and use other languages as well, such as Assembler, C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, LISP, Prolog.

All my jobs, including the one I had during my studies were Java development roles. I started my career in the city where I finished my university studies, Cluj, and then, in 2006, I moved to Bucharest where I tackled bigger projects for the European Commission, starting as a Senior Java Developer and then advancing in a Team Lead role where I worked on various projects and scaled a team from 3 to 35 developers, along with the growing number of projects.

I gained extensive experience in the selection and interviewing process for software development roles and built a strong team with 100% retention for 3 years.

With every line of code I wrote, my interest for the business and financials behind it grew, so, it came naturally my transition into a Technical Project Management role in more complex projects which I executed following strict standards such as CMMI Level 3. At all times I kept myself updated on the technology side and pursued my enterprise architect certification with Sun Microsystems (SCEA).

Since I moved to Berlin in 2012, I had the opportunity to be involved in the architecture of various products, in the area of real estate, where I led two teams on the introduction of brand new technologies at that time: MongoDB and ElasticSearch.

This marked the start of my journey into two sides marketplaces, which I continue with pleasure.

My experience entailed the selection and usage of new technologies for the storage and search used for the largest real estate website in Germany at the time, with the focus of ensuring scalability, radically optimizing performance (6X faster response times achieved), while achieving significant cost reduction (10X).

Along these, I was responsible with the capacity planning for hardware (pre-public cloud era), the support and documentation of backup, failover scenarios and disaster recovery for the clusters in use and the coordination of activities across Java developers and the DevOps teams.

While doing these activities, my passion for the business and financials continued to grow, which led me to the decision to pursue a product management career track.

698+ pages written with passion on architecture & technology.

• Architecture, Java,SOA, OSGI

• Application Performance Management

• Cloud, IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, Web Services, NoSQL, Web 2.0, JavaScript

• Relational Databases

• SOA End to End Security