CONTACT
tigaua@gmail.com
+40745088208
Barcelona,Spain
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrei- țigău-483b45136
https://stackoverflow.com/users/11928088/andrei-tiga
u
SUMMARY
I am a creative polyglot software engineer with a great
passion for novelty in technology and science.
Fast learner, with an unlimited curiosity, I succeded reaching
a good level in various domains of the technological
field quite quickly.
I believe that diverse knowledge, critical thinking, team
work and creativity are the key for doing a good job and
bringing little innovations in anything we do.
EDUCATION
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Sep 2020 -Jul 2022
Master of Cognitive Science and Interactive
Media
Goal of the master programme is to study and advance the
design, construction and deployment of advanced
autonomous artifacts that interact in complex physical and
social environments, grounded in our understanding of
biological, psychological and technological principles.
Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Sep 2015 -Jul 2019
Bachelor of Electronics, Telecommunications
and Computer Science
SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Java
Go
Design Patterns and Clean Code
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
API design ( Swagger / Apigee )
Git, Jenkins, Jenkins, TektonCD, ArgoCD
Maven & Gradle
Spring & Hibernate
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, Sysbase, CloudSQL
Docker
Python
Databases
Cloud Native Design Patterns
Technical sales
Enterprise platforms and cloud computing
Product presentations
Executive customer support
Risk management
PROJECTS AND CERTIFICATIONS
Participant
Mar 2023 -Present
Demo2Win
Software demonstration and technical sales certification
Participant
Sep 2022 -Present
New Relic Full-Stack Observability
practitioner
New Relic observability certificate
Masters thesis
Jan 2012 -Jul 2022
Evaluation of the effects of COVID-19
pandemic on moral decision-making using
affective ratings
Research study on how the COVID-19 pandemics affected
the way people make moral decisions;
Student
Jan 2019 -Jul 2019
Diploma Project
Application for detection the levels of nuclear radiation:
- Hardware/ Software system including a Geiger-Muller
radiation sensor and an Arudino Microcontroller. The level of
radiaton was coded and sent to a computer, along with a
decoding key
- A Spring MVC microservices based application was
decoding the data and displaying it graphically in real-time.
Listener
Aug 2020 -Aug 2020
KubeCon | CloudNativeCon attendance
Member
Mar 2018 -Present
Bucharest Software Craftsmanship
Community memeber
- participating to webinars, trainings, workshops and code
katas
Member
Aug 2019 -Present
Stack Overflow
- Active community member
LANGUAGES
English
Romanian
Spanish
French
EXPERIENCE
Regnology
Jun 2023 -Present
Senior Software Engineer Cloud Focus
- work on the development of an infrastructure cloud
platform based on GKE to support enterprise scale tax
regulatory applications
- build an observability roadmap; define together with the
product manager, director and lead architect essential
business and technical flows, and setup tracing, network
monitoring, logs, dashboards and alerts
- migrate infrastructure operations from bash scripts to a
Golang tool
- reduce cloud related costs by implementing clean up
processes for integration tests, API general and rate limits
and optimizing log ingestion
- modularize the IaC Terraform codebase
- doing code reviews to help maintaining the high quality of
the code at both microservices (Java and Go) and operations
levels (Jenkins pipelines, Gitlab pipelines, Terraform files,
Helm charts etc...)
- improving the overall network security of the whole
system by adopting and implementing Cloud Armor
New Relic
Sep 2022 -Jun 2023
Technical Account Manager
- Act as an expert technical advisor on observability matters
to key steakholders
- Maximize client satisfaction through the delivery of
observability demos and workshops
- Identify comercial opportunities within the portofolio of the
clients and successfully develop client account to increase
the potential revenue stream
- Hands on guidance for customers who want to develop
their observability strategies within their software stack
- Hold general observability related courses and workshops
with over 200 atendees
Oracle Netsuite
Apr 2021 -Sep 2022
Software Engineer
- Building from scratch new, eneterprise scale, web
application
- Working in a mixed Kanban / Scrum environment
- Developing code being in a close relation with the product
management and architecture teams
- Maintaining and refactoring legacy ERP web application
built with Java and Javascript, using reflection based
frameworks; extensive work with Oracle databases
- Helping with the modularization of the legacy monolith
- Mentoring junior members of the team and supporting
continous learning initiatives by providing periodical
trainings in the technical area
Harbur.io, Spain
Mar 2020 -Apr 2021
Cloud Native Software Engineer
Providing solutions to re-design existing legacy solutions to
cluster of containers, or building from scratch microservices
oriented solutions.
Caixa bank project:
- Developing the backend of a self-service portal for the
development teams of Caixa bank, providing
IAAS,CAAS,PAAS and SAAS solutions in a Kubernetes
environment
- Developing APIs in Go to communicate with the
Kubernetes clusters, as well as Java
microservices,maintaining and assuring the CI/CD
methodology
- Building Jenkins pipelines in Groovy and writing bash
scripts
- Designing and building systems from scratch and
deploying them to the Kubernetes cluster, taking care of the
whole development lifecycle from writing code, docker
containerization and managing networking and security
issues
- Writing unity, functional tests, and documentation
Kubernetic project (https://www.kubernetic.com/):
- Decisive role in the release of Kubernetic enterprise
edition, a KNative support platform, developing the
integration part of the operators, Kubernetes custom
resources, Helm, ArgoCD and TektonCD integration
- Fixing small frontend bugs in React
Webhelp, Spain
Jul 2019 -Mar 2020
Technical Support Representative for Google
Cloud Platform
- Providing technical support for Google Cloud Platform
products as : App Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Build,
CloudSQL, Soruce Repositories, Spanner, Cloud Functions
- Practicing soft skills daily, facing important customers on a
daily basis
- Working in a fast paced work environment, in a
pluricultural team
ING Tech, Romania
Oct 2018 -Jan 2019
Java Internship
- Learning and doing little projects in both backend and
frontend
- In depth learning about: Java 8 features, Design Patterns,
Clean Coding Principles, Spring 5, Hibernate, Javascript,
JQuery, Ajax, Polymer and NoSQL databases
IBM, Romania
Mar 2018 -Oct 2018
Java Developer
- Maintaining and developing new features for BNP Paribas,
asset management software
- Developing full stack in a JaveEE, JSP and Hibernate
environment
- Maintaining and writing procedures for Sysbase and
Oracle databases
ANDREI TIGAU
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
CONTACT
tigaua@gmail.com
+40745088208
Barcelona,Spain
https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrei- țigău-483b45136
https://stackoverflow.com/users/11928088/andrei-tiga
u
SUMMARY
I am a creative polyglot software engineer with a great
passion for novelty in technology and science.
Fast learner, with an unlimited curiosity, I succeded reaching
a good level in various domains of the technological
field quite quickly.
I believe that diverse knowledge, critical thinking, team
work and creativity are the key for doing a good job and
bringing little innovations in anything we do.
EDUCATION
Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona
Sep 2020 -Jul 2022
Master of Cognitive Science and Interactive
Media
Goal of the master programme is to study and advance the
design, construction and deployment of advanced
autonomous artifacts that interact in complex physical and
social environments, grounded in our understanding of
biological, psychological and technological principles.
Polytechnic University of Bucharest
Sep 2015 -Jul 2019
Bachelor of Electronics, Telecommunications
and Computer Science
SKILLS AND TECHNOLOGIES
Java
Go
Design Patterns and Clean Code
Kubernetes
Google Cloud Platform
API design ( Swagger / Apigee )
Git, Jenkins, Jenkins, TektonCD, ArgoCD
Maven & Gradle
Spring & Hibernate
MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle DB, Sysbase, CloudSQL
Docker
Python
Databases
Cloud Native Design Patterns
Technical sales
Enterprise platforms and cloud computing
Product presentations
Executive customer support
Risk management
PROJECTS AND CERTIFICATIONS
Participant
Mar 2023 -Present
Demo2Win
Software demonstration and technical sales certification
Participant
Sep 2022 -Present
New Relic Full-Stack Observability
practitioner
New Relic observability certificate
Masters thesis
Jan 2012 -Jul 2022
Evaluation of the effects of COVID-19
pandemic on moral decision-making using
affective ratings
Research study on how the COVID-19 pandemics affected
the way people make moral decisions;
Student
Jan 2019 -Jul 2019
Diploma Project
Application for detection the levels of nuclear radiation:
- Hardware/ Software system including a Geiger-Muller
radiation sensor and an Arudino Microcontroller. The level of
radiaton was coded and sent to a computer, along with a
decoding key
- A Spring MVC microservices based application was
decoding the data and displaying it graphically in real-time.
Listener
Aug 2020 -Aug 2020
KubeCon | CloudNativeCon attendance
Member
Mar 2018 -Present
Bucharest Software Craftsmanship
Community memeber
- participating to webinars, trainings, workshops and code
katas
Member
Aug 2019 -Present
Stack Overflow
- Active community member
LANGUAGES
English
Romanian
Spanish
French
EXPERIENCE
Regnology
Jun 2023 -Present
Senior Software Engineer Cloud Focus
- work on the development of an infrastructure cloud
platform based on GKE to support enterprise scale tax
regulatory applications
- build an observability roadmap; define together with the
product manager, director and lead architect essential
business and technical flows, and setup tracing, network
monitoring, logs, dashboards and alerts
- migrate infrastructure operations from bash scripts to a
Golang tool
- reduce cloud related costs by implementing clean up
processes for integration tests, API general and rate limits
and optimizing log ingestion
- modularize the IaC Terraform codebase
- doing code reviews to help maintaining the high quality of
the code at both microservices (Java and Go) and operations
levels (Jenkins pipelines, Gitlab pipelines, Terraform files,
Helm charts etc...)
- improving the overall network security of the whole
system by adopting and implementing Cloud Armor
New Relic
Sep 2022 -Jun 2023
Technical Account Manager
- Act as an expert technical advisor on observability matters
to key steakholders
- Maximize client satisfaction through the delivery of
observability demos and workshops
- Identify comercial opportunities within the portofolio of the
clients and successfully develop client account to increase
the potential revenue stream
- Hands on guidance for customers who want to develop
their observability strategies within their software stack
- Hold general observability related courses and workshops
with over 200 atendees
Oracle Netsuite
Apr 2021 -Sep 2022
Software Engineer
- Building from scratch new, eneterprise scale, web
application
- Working in a mixed Kanban / Scrum environment
- Developing code being in a close relation with the product
management and architecture teams
- Maintaining and refactoring legacy ERP web application
built with Java and Javascript, using reflection based
frameworks; extensive work with Oracle databases
- Helping with the modularization of the legacy monolith
- Mentoring junior members of the team and supporting
continous learning initiatives by providing periodical
trainings in the technical area
Harbur.io, Spain
Mar 2020 -Apr 2021
Cloud Native Software Engineer
Providing solutions to re-design existing legacy solutions to
cluster of containers, or building from scratch microservices
oriented solutions.
Caixa bank project:
- Developing the backend of a self-service portal for the
development teams of Caixa bank, providing
IAAS,CAAS,PAAS and SAAS solutions in a Kubernetes
environment
- Developing APIs in Go to communicate with the
Kubernetes clusters, as well as Java
microservices,maintaining and assuring the CI/CD
methodology
- Building Jenkins pipelines in Groovy and writing bash
scripts
- Designing and building systems from scratch and
deploying them to the Kubernetes cluster, taking care of the
whole development lifecycle from writing code, docker
containerization and managing networking and security
issues
- Writing unity, functional tests, and documentation
Kubernetic project (https://www.kubernetic.com/):
- Decisive role in the release of Kubernetic enterprise
edition, a KNative support platform, developing the
integration part of the operators, Kubernetes custom
resources, Helm, ArgoCD and TektonCD integration
- Fixing small frontend bugs in React
Webhelp, Spain
Jul 2019 -Mar 2020
Technical Support Representative for Google
Cloud Platform
- Providing technical support for Google Cloud Platform
products as : App Engine, Cloud Run, Cloud Build,
CloudSQL, Soruce Repositories, Spanner, Cloud Functions
- Practicing soft skills daily, facing important customers on a
daily basis
- Working in a fast paced work environment, in a
pluricultural team
ING Tech, Romania
Oct 2018 -Jan 2019
Java Internship
- Learning and doing little projects in both backend and
frontend
- In depth learning about: Java 8 features, Design Patterns,
Clean Coding Principles, Spring 5, Hibernate, Javascript,
JQuery, Ajax, Polymer and NoSQL databases
IBM, Romania
Mar 2018 -Oct 2018
Java Developer
- Maintaining and developing new features for BNP Paribas,
asset management software
- Developing full stack in a JaveEE, JSP and Hibernate
environment
- Maintaining and writing procedures for Sysbase and
Oracle databases
ANDREI TIGAU
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
