Innov8ive Labs

One engineer, accountable end to end

Innov8ive Labs is run by a Senior Full Stack Engineer with 16+ years of experience designing and delivering enterprise-grade solutions with .NET, Node, React, React Native, Azure, SQL and MongoDB, across energy, fintech, aviation and life sciences. Known for bridging business needs with technical execution, mentoring teams, and delivering measurable business impact.

The record

  1. 11/2023 - presentEnergy, aviation, startups

    Senior Full Stack Engineer

    Energy & aviation consultancy

    • Delivered three greenfield projects for a leading European energy group and a startup using .NET 8, React, PostgreSQL, Kafka and Azure.
    • Built an energy trading platform POC replacing a 15-year-old Oracle system, scaled to 100K+ trades a day.
    • Implemented a maintenance forecasting algorithm for an aeronautics client, reducing downtime costs through optimized service schedules.
    • Developed a Kafka middleware simulator that made integration tests reliable and removed an environment bottleneck.
  2. 02/2022 - 11/2023Events, SaaS

    Senior Full Stack Engineer

    Events SaaS product

    • Enhanced a SaaS conference management platform used by 10K+ attendees across hybrid and virtual events.
    • Designed and launched a React Native app for iOS and Android with gamification, QR scanning and chat, deployed for multiple clients.
    • Rolled out a Figma-based React UI redesign with zero downtime during live events.
  3. 09/2020 - 02/2022Life sciences, fintech

    Senior Full Stack Engineer

    Life sciences & fintech consultancy

    • Delivered full-stack solutions from requirements through deployment.
    • Migrated legacy systems to .NET Core and optimized SQL queries for efficiency.
    • Built secure APIs and data pipelines for regulated environments.
  4. 09/2011 - 09/2020Medical devices, banking, retail data

    Senior / Full Stack Engineer

    Medical, banking & retail-data consultancy

    • Led teams of 3 to 5 engineers building medical device simulators, modernizing the UI from WinForms to WPF.
    • Enhanced a Product Information Management system integrating 16+ sources and serving 15 downstream systems.
    • Contributed to an award-winning mortgage platform for a retail bank in a 20+ member distributed team.
  5. 08/2010 - 09/2011Mobile

    Junior Software Developer

    Mobile software

    • Designed and developed mobile applications for Nokia Symbian using Qt (C++) and web technologies.

Leadership & mentorship

  • Mentored junior developers and ran code reviews for teams of up to 5 engineers.
  • Provided technical onboarding, task assignment and best-practice guidance across multiple projects.
  • Led simulator teams through several product generations.

Education

  • BSc Computer Science
    Babeș-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, 2008 - 2011
  • Baccalaureate in Mathematics and Intensive Informatics
    Colegiul Național Emil Racoviță, Cluj-Napoca, 2004 - 2008

Reagents & instruments

Languages & frameworks

.NET / .NET CoreC#ASP.NETEntity Framework CoreWPFWinFormsReactReact NativeNode.js / ExpressTypeScriptJavaScriptReduxTanStack QueryUnity

Front-end & styling

CSSSASS / SCSSTailwind CSSMaterial UIFigma

Databases & search

SQL ServerPostgreSQLMySQLMariaDBMongoDBSolrELK Stack

Cloud & DevOps

AzureAWSDockerKafkaRabbitMQCI/CD pipelines

Architecture & patterns

MonolithModular monolithMicroservicesDomain-driven designEvent-driven

Testing & tools

xUnitNUnitMSTestJestVitestCypressTestcontainersKatalon StudioGit / GitHubJira, Confluence, Bitbucket
Romanian nativeEnglish C1-C2French B1German A2

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