Radu Pana

Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager leading a team of 40+ software engineers in the design, development, and deployment of a net new, globally distributed, cloud-native financial platform.

Role and responsibilities:

• Lead and participate in technical meetings, ensuring that architectural decisions align with the broader organizational goals and strategy
• Own and deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices
• Review and approve technical design documents and architecture decision records, across all teams
• Design and implement technical solutions written in Java
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end & performance tests
• Guide and influence the technology strategy and the shape of the product
• Manage and mentor senior and junior engineers

Key contributor to the firmwide integration and payments engineering tribes for the build and launch of the Chase UK digital retail bank.

Role and responsibilities:

• Own and deliver end-to-end cutting-edge solutions in the form of cloud-native microservice architecture applications leveraging the latest technologies and the best industry practices.
• Design and implement technical solutions written in Java
• Write unit, component, integration, end-to-end & performance tests
• Contribute to microservice architecture design
• Support the products you've built through their entire life cycle, including production and incident management

Senior back-end engineer within Market Operations, in the Daily Evidencing and Escalation Reporting team. The project's prime objective is to build an evidencing and escalation solution system to capture evidence of supervision using the supervisory controls, which will be used by over 700 supervisors from about 57 countries.

Played an integral role in the core engineering team, taking the project from the early stages of inception to production delivery within the tight deadlines set by the regulators.

Designed and implemented Java coded MDM solutions, used to leverage the bank's hierarchical assets, such as books, portfolios, employees, business lines and legal entities.

Introduced JUnit testing and a TDD mentality, which were completely absent from the project.

Spearheaded many process automation features, including automatic build and deployment pipelines, drastically reducing release cycle durations.

Improved application performance and stability by re-factoring a large portion of legacy code, which was less than optimal and by introducing low-latency, multi-threaded solutions.

Team leader for a maintenance and support team of three.

Oversaw the proper functioning of the MDM solution as well as designed, coded and deployed bug fixes and new features.

Handled and delegated user requests pertaining to production issues.

Improved IBM's relationship with the client through excellent customer care and by meeting the SLAs more than 95% of the time.

Joined a development team fresh out of my master's degree studies and quickly picked up the inner workings of IBM's MDM product.

Developed a master data management solution for a major client.

Greatly contributed to the team's throughput and was awarded a team leader position in less than 1.5 years.