Summary
Catalin Ionita is a Java software engineer based in Cluj-Napoca with 12 years of professional experience and four years focused on building scalable backend solutions for banking, global retail, and AI-driven products. He specializes in the Spring ecosystem and GCP, having implemented secure financial microservices and retail platforms with banking-grade practices like TDD and Clean Code. Catalin has hands-on experience with RAG architectures, leveraging Vertex AI and BigQuery to enable advanced semantic search, and automates delivery via GitHub Actions and Jenkins. Comfortable navigating complex business logic and cloud-native patterns, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with practical, production-ready AI/data integrations. An alum of Babes-Bolyai University in Computer Programming, he brings a track record of turning demanding domain requirements into auditable, secure systems.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Programming, Bachelor's degree, Computer Programming at Babes-Bolyai University
Romanian, English