@zsmireGrounded architect, building tech bridges.
Solutions architect in Bucharest with eighteen years across banking, telecom, e-commerce and the public sector. From the server room to the architecture board: started in infrastructure and operations, moved into integration engineering, and work today on solution and enterprise architecture for clients from energy and retail to banking and insurance.
Architecture
2025 - now current
End-to-end solution ownership across concurrent accounts, from presales through delivery: discovery workshops, target architectures and estimates, API-led and event-driven integration design on DDD and hexagonal principles, and cloud architectures on Azure and GCP aligned with DORA and NIS2.
Clients: Engie, OMV, Hidroelectrica, Generali, Kaufland, Vodafone, Bango.
Java 17/21, Spring Boot, Apache Camel, Kafka, Azure, GCP, Pact, Gatling
2023 - 2025
Solution architect for the company's SaaS platform in insurance and banking, built on Azure. Owned the architecture for customer implementations end to end: multi-tenant design on DDD bounded contexts and hexagonal architecture, security reviews and the technical relationship with customer stakeholders; also led the integration area. Mentored engineers and kept documentation in shape for clients and management.
Clients: Avant Money, CEC Bank.
Java, Spring Boot, Node, Apache Camel, Azure, Kafka, Redis
2022 - 2023
Led a team of five engineers on public-sector platforms: planning and delivery, solution architecture, code quality and the release process.
Clients: ANRE, ANI, CNAS, PICCJ, Culturalia (public institutions).
Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Kafka, WSO2, ELK, Docker
2022
Set up the bank's enterprise-architecture practice on TOGAF: principles, compliance reviews and the EA board.
Projects: bank-wide SDLC adoption, Oracle CX adoption, API-gateway selection.
TOGAF, Abacus, Archi, C4
2021 - 2022
Product planning and execution for the insurance core, working as solution architect between clients and internal teams; ran internal and customer training.
Client: NN Romania.
JavaScript, Apache Camel, SQL Server, Azure, Redis
2019 - 2021
Software architect on mission-critical, large-scale EU systems: solution design and security reviews to OWASP guidelines, technology selection, REST microservices, and day-to-day guidance for the development team.
Clients: eu-LISA (Baucis consortium), Dutch Ministry of Justice.
Java, Spring Boot, Angular, Kafka, Cassandra, Redis, ELK
Integration
2017 - 2019
Hands-on solutions architect for middleware and integration: architecture evaluation, solution design and prototyping, security reviews and delivery process.
Projects: legacy middleware migration to SOA Suite 12c, 'My Account' mobile app.
Oracle SOA Suite 12c, OSB, xQuery, WebLogic, Java, ActiveMQ, ELK
2017
Business analysis for the marketplace: requirements, use cases and flow documentation, support through development and testing, and early-warning flow monitoring.
Projects: Marketplace ecosystem enhancements, courier-account integrations.
Agile, Atlassian stack, SQL reporting
2014 - 2017
Analysis and Java development on the integration layer: business requirements turned into technical ones, implemented and released.
Projects: Cosmote-to-Telekom rebrand, integration-layer delivery.
Java, Oracle SOA and OSB, WebLogic, ActiveMQ, Oracle DB
Foundations
2010 - 2014
Card operations and compliance: authorization and terminal error analysis, scheme reporting and ATM fleet availability.
Projects: multi-currency ATMs, multifunctional-machine and payment-machine rollouts.
VISA and Mastercard rules, EMV, PCI-DSS
2007 - 2010
Systems administration for the bank's HQ and branches: servers, deployments, workstation images and user support.
Windows Server, VMware vSphere, Active Directory
Romanian native, English C2, conversational French.
Basketball, tennis and kickboxing. Travel and food when I can. Side projects in tech, this site included.