Summary
Anca Muscalagiu is a software engineer based in Amsterdam with four years of experience building reliable, low-latency backend systems and production-ready AI applications. She has driven performance optimizations and large data migrations in enterprise settings, and has hands-on expertise with Java/Spring, cloud tooling (Docker, Kubernetes, AWS), and observability stacks like Elasticsearch/Logstash/Kibana. Alongside engineering roles at Cloudflight and IBM, she writes accessible MLOps content and designs course material for AI apps, attracting sizable readerships as a Decoding ML collaborator. Her research on Quantum Neural Architecture Search and Quantum Machine Learning—recognized with a university research scholarship and a conference paper nomination—highlights a rare blend of applied systems engineering and cutting-edge ML research. Now at Optiver, she continues to bridge production-grade software with experimental AI methods, often surfacing practical insights that help teams move novel models into real-world use.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Highschool Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, 10/10, Highschool Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science, 10/10 at Liceul Teoretic “ Traian Lalescu” Hunedoara
Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 10/10, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 10/10 at Charles University
Romanian, English, French, germana