Summary
Alex Pricope is a Lead Software Engineer based in Bucharest with 14–15 years building high-throughput, distributed systems and event-driven microservices across finance, gaming, and telecom. He is a polyglot engineer comfortable in C#, Go and Java, experienced in multi-cloud (AWS/Azure), Kubernetes, and CI/CD automation, and has built mission-critical payment and backend services handling tens of millions of transactions. His background includes introducing observability and custom monitoring at enterprise scale, moving teams between messaging platforms (RabbitMQ, Kafka, NATS, NServiceBus), and optimizing low-latency systems for real-time trading and gaming. Equally at home architecting serverless pipelines and infrastructure-as-code as he is mentoring teams and acting as scrum master, Alex combines hands-on coding with pragmatic operational ownership. A practical innovator, he has repeatedly delivered production-grade systems that reduced latency and improved reliability for high-traffic services.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's, Computer Science, Bachelor's, Computer Science at Technical University Gh Asachi, Iasi, Romania
English, Romanian