Alexandru Somai
Staff Software Engineer at Bolt
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Top SchoolAlexandru Somai is a Staff Software Engineer with 10 years’ experience designing and operating large distributed systems and microservices, currently driving platform work at Bolt from Cluj-Napoca. He specializes in the Java ecosystem—Spring, Hibernate, Kafka and Hazelcast—and emphasizes efficient, maintainable, and well-tested code paired with strong CI/CD practices. Alexandru progressed from hands-on Java development and a GSoC-backed Jenkins plugin to senior and staff engineering roles at Betfair and Bolt, showing a consistent trajectory toward architectural ownership. He has real-world test automation experience contributing acceptance tests to the Jenkins project, including work that validated workspace sharing and cleanup for plugins. Known to "live to code," he blends pragmatic engineering with a track record of solving complex integration and testing challenges in production-scale systems. His background in software engineering (Master’s) and electronics/telecoms gives him a systems-oriented perspective that informs both coding and architecture decisions.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Electronics, Telecommunications and Information Technology at Technical University of Cluj NapocaMaster’s Degree, Software Engineering, Master’s Degree, Software Engineering at Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
English, Romanian
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Github Skills (15)
javas10
jenkins10
jenkins-ci10
selenium-ide10
selenium10
java10
test-automation10
maven9
caching6
oop6
spring-data-jpa6
content-type6
spring6
spring-boot6
git5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness
Aug 2016 - Sep 2016
Acceptance tests cases for Jenkins and its plugins based on selenium and docker.
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributed to the acceptance testing framework for the Jenkins project, focusing on the External Workspace Manager plugin. Their work involved writing acceptance tests using Java, Selenium, and the Jenkins test framework to validate the plugin's functionality, particularly concerning workspace sharing and cleanup. They also updated tests to reflect the latest plugin changes and incorporate Maven for build processes within the tests.
dockerjenkinsselenium
alexsomai/movie-rater
Jul 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:5 PRs, 1 push, 3 branches in 4 years 11 months
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