Experience

  1. GitLab

    Senior Backend Engineer · Amsterdam, NL

    Security Platform Management — security configuration and inventory on GitLab's core Rails monolith.

    • Designed and shipped Security Scan Profiles end to end: data model, GraphQL API, Redis-backed mappings, and CI pipeline integration as a job source.
    • Built async bulk-operation workers for attaching and detaching scan profiles across large project hierarchies.
    • Implemented Security Inventory attributes: bulk add/remove/replace across groups and projects, filtering, and template-based defaults.
    • Drove GraphQL performance work for security inventory queries and retired optimization feature flags after rollout.
    • Added audit events for scan-profile and attribute changes for compliance and traceability.
    • Resolved high-impact production bugs across CI/CD config generation, database concurrency, and traversal-ID integrity.
    Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL GraphQL Redis Sidekiq CI/CD

  2. Mollie

    Software Engineer · Amsterdam, NL

    Contributed to backend services for Mollie's payments platform in a high-throughput, regulated financial environment.

    PHP MySQL

  3. WeTransfer

    Senior Software Engineer · Amsterdam, NL

    Core product engineering with tech-lead ownership on performance, search, and background processing.

    • Introduced read-replica support in the core application, improving stability and read throughput under peak load.
    • Profiled and optimized hot-path database queries, cutting latency across key endpoints.
    • Built multi-queue background processing, improving task isolation and throughput.
    • Designed and shipped an OpenSearch-based search engine, improving relevance and response times.
    • Took on a tech-lead role, driving technical decisions and leading complex cross-functional features end-to-end.
    • Mentored engineers and upheld maintainability, performance, and scalability through rigorous code reviews.
    Ruby on Rails MySQL Redis OpenSearch Kubernetes AWS

  4. GovPredict

    Software Engineer · Chișinău, MD

    Performance and search architecture for the core application.

    • Optimized server-side performance of the core application.
    • Re-architected search with Elasticsearch, improving accuracy and speed through advanced querying and indexing.
    • Strengthened internal queuing and background processing for higher reliability.
    Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Redis Elasticsearch Kubernetes

  5. Mixbook

    Full Stack Engineer · Chișinău, MD

    Scaling server-side logic and frontend for a high-traffic photo product.

    • Scaled server-side logic to reduce response times and handle higher traffic volumes.
    • Drove code quality through reviews and targeted refactoring.
    Ruby on Rails MySQL Redis React AWS

  6. Salt Edge

    Lead Ruby on Rails Developer · Chișinău, MD

    Led the backend team and owned architecture of the core banking API product.

    • Led the backend team and owned the architecture of the core banking API product.
    • Designed a transaction categorization service and a secure storage service for users' banking credentials.
    • Implemented sharding and replication, improving scalability and reliability of the core product.
    Ruby on Rails PostgreSQL Redis JavaScript

  7. FusionWorks

    Ruby on Rails Developer · Chișinău, MD

    Delivered core API features and performance improvements for banking products.

    Ruby on Rails

  8. Morebooks!

    Ruby on Rails Developer · Chișinău, MD

    Built and maintained the main product across back-end and front-end.

    Ruby on Rails

Projects

Browserbeam website preview

Browserbeam

Browser API for agents. Start a session, get markdown and stable element refs back, then navigate, fill forms, extract data, or screenshot through one HTTP interface. SDKs for Ruby, JavaScript, Python, and MCP.

Competiflow website preview

Competiflow

Watches competitor pages and shows what changed: field-level diffs, a short note on why it matters, and a triage inbox with email digests for product and GTM teams. Uses Browserbeam for the browser work.

Domains

Application security

Scan orchestration, security inventory, audit & compliance on high-traffic platforms

Payments & fintech

High-throughput, regulated payment backends

Open banking APIs

Banking data extraction, credential storage, PSD2-style APIs

SaaS & file transfer

Core product engineering at scale for consumer and B2B SaaS

Search & data scale

Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, read replicas, sharding & replication

CI/CD platforms

Pipeline integration, GraphQL APIs, feature-flag rollouts

Education

Technical University of Moldova

Engineer's Degree in Computer Science · Chișinău, MD