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Eugen Podaru

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Principal Software Engineer and full-stack developer at Knab, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. While I specialize in Azure and the Microsoft stack, in my recent work I have also been developing solutions with Node.js and serverless technologies on AWS. I am always up for a challenge outside my comfort zone.

Software is my job and my hobby, although I am fortunate enough to have other hobbies as well, such as football, squash, padel, snowboarding, riding the motorcycle, playing the bass, airsoft, mountain biking, and traveling.

Although the page is called about me, it's more about my technical and professional sides. For more about me, please contact me directly.

Experience

Knab
January 2023 - Present
  • Principal Software Engineer in the Lending department, leading the technical team to deliver lending products and aligning with other principal engineers on company-wide technical challenges.
  • Led the implementation and delivery of the business loan and the residential mortgage products, building event-driven serverless integration layers between application/origination channels, core banking, advisory, underwriting, and servicing systems.
  • Architected and implemented integrations with CRM, payments, and data analytics platforms.
  • Designed and delivered core components such as the payments engine (for repayments and disbursements) and the credit scoring engine within the integration layer.
  • Led the development of the Client Product Overview API, a core component aggregating and serving all customer products, as part of Knab's IT transformation program to modernize the bank's technology landscape.
  • Technologies: AWS Lambda (Node.js/TypeScript), ASP.NET Core, Terraform, AWS API Gateway, AWS SQS, AWS S3, AWS EventBridge, AWS Step Functions, AWS CloudWatch, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS DynamoDB, AWS DMS, AWS CloudFront, AWS Incident Manager, AWS KMS, AWS EC2, AWS ElasticCache
LoanClear / Dynamic Credit
February 2016 - December 2022
  • Lead / full-stack developer responsible for architecture, software design and implementation of company software products.
  • Architecture and development of the company's loan investor servicing platform.
  • Prototype, test and explore new ideas, technologies, frameworks or libraries.
  • Developed landing pages for several of the company's products.
  • Developed a new mortgage calculation engine for the company's mortgage origination channel.
  • Responsible for the selection and validation of 3rd party software solutions.
  • Responsible for the enterprise architecture section of the center of excellence.
  • Technologies: .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, Angular, Azure App Service, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factories, Azure Data Lake, CosmosDB, Azure AD, Azure Service Bus, Azure Storage, Azure KeyVault, Azure AKS, Azure DevOps
iProspect Netherlands
October 2011 - February 2016
  • .NET Developer responsible for architecture, software design and implementation of company software products.
  • Developed COS.Editor, a Silverlight application used internally to manage cross-account AdWords campaigns.
  • Developed AdService.Web.Interface, an ASP.NET application used internally to display client AdWords campaigns, and to create and edit ad, keyword and ad group templates used in the campaigns.
  • Developed FeedTransformer, a rule-based tabular data transformation engine.
  • Technologies: Silverlight, ASP.NET MVC, WCF, EF, MongoDB, Solr, AngularJS, jQuery, Bootstrap, TPL Dataflow
Housatonic Software
March 2009 - October 2011
  • .NET Developer responsible for development and bug fixing of company software products.
  • Feature implementation and bug fixing for company's main products, Project Viewer and Project Viewer Server.
  • Developed Housatonic Project Outlook, a Microsoft Project plug-in that can export/import tasks and calendars from Microsoft Outlook.
  • Technologies: WinForms, ASP.NET, jQuery, Office Interop, COM
Adrem
August 2010 - August 2011
  • .NET Developer responsible for architecture, software design and implementation of company software products.
  • Developed L2 Automation, a distributed application that runs on top of level 1 automation systems at factory sites. The system collects process information from the SCADA systems on site, displays the process evolution in real time, predicts and controls the process evolution using a mathematical model.
  • Developed AI Gas, an application running on an on-board computer in a gas analysis system. The application communicates and controls a Residual Gas Analyser developed by Stanford Research Systems.
  • Technologies: SCADA Systems, Kepware OPC API, WPF, EF, .NET TCP API, .NET Serial Port API

Side Projects

critiqo
November 2015 - September 2018
  • Technical co-founder
  • Designed and developed the multi-platform critiqo mobile app using Ionic and Cordova.
  • Designed and developed the critiqo landing page using Angular and ASP.NET Core.
  • Implemented the build and release pipelines on Azure DevOps for both the mobile app and the landing page, and achieved automatic continuous delivery to App Store, Play Store, and Microsoft Store.
  • Ported the ZXing library to TypeScript and built an Angular component for rendering 2D and 1D codes as SVG.
  • Technologies: .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, EF Core, Angular, Ionic, Cordova, Azure App Service, App Center, Azure DevOps
vundermind programming contest
November 2012 - April 2013
  • Designed and developed the contest website using Umbraco and hosted it on Azure.
  • Created and managed the VUCS Facebook page on which the contest was promoted. As a result of the contest the page gained approximately 500 new followers.
  • Created and solved programming challenges requiring knowledge of algorithmic paradigms such as greedy algorithms, backtracking, and dynamic programming.
  • Organized the contest and decided the winner. More than 100 contestants participated and their solutions were scored automatically by a program I wrote.
  • Technologies: ASP.NET, jQuery, Umbraco, Azure

Education

Master of Science, 2013

Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Bachelor of Science, 2010

Computer Science, Politehnica University of Bucharest

Languages

Romanian, English, Russian and Dutch