Summary
Catalin Cristu is a seasoned software architect and technical lead with over 14 years of hands-on experience delivering enterprise-grade, cloud-native systems across finance, telecom and customer support, now shaping AI-enabled service platforms at Oracle in Bucharest. He blends deep backend engineering—microservices on OCI/OKE, big-data pipelines with Spark/Cassandra, and high-performance rule engines—with practical operational sensibilities from long-running production systems and L3 support. Known for translating complex business needs into scalable architectures, he remains hands-on, prototyping core components and driving AI integration to streamline support workflows. His background spans leadership roles at Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas and major consulting firms, giving him a rare mix of trading-floor rigor and product-focused delivery. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, code quality discipline and pragmatic modernization strategies that reduce technical debt while improving resilience.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology
English, French