Summary
Andreea Chelaru is a project engineer and manager with 10 years’ experience driving automotive component development and homologation across Europe and China, working with OEMs such as BMW, VW, Audi, Renault and Dacia. She combines a strong engineering foundation—M.Eng. in Product Design for Sustainable Development and ongoing PhD work in Materials Engineering—with hands-on mechanical design and validation experience from prototype to PPAP. At Stabilus and Bertrandt she led design, supplier management and test planning for springs, cover tubes and glazing systems, using tools like SAP, NX and IMDS to keep complex programs on schedule. Comfortable at the intersection of R&D and production, she has applied laboratory research skills to material characterization and advanced wastewater treatment early in her career, a background that informs her attention to environmental and functional performance. Punctual, sociable and curious, she thrives on learning and solving cross-disciplinary challenges while balancing field validation with documentation and process control.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Material Engineering, PhD, Material Engineering at Transilvania University
English, French, Spanish, Romanian