Summary
Catalin-marian Acaei is a senior software engineer and architectural thinker with 13 years of experience building scalable, high-performance systems across backend, mobile, and cloud platforms. Comfortable switching languages and paradigms—from PHP and C# to Kotlin, Python and now Go—he combines hands-on implementation with long-term architectural vision to help teams ship faster and more reliably. He’s led projects spanning Kubernetes management, Terraform provisioning, secure secrets management, and workflow orchestration (notably Go-based services and a Temporal-powered engine at Kubeark). As a freelancer he bridges execution and strategy, documenting decisions, improving maintainability, and integrating AI-driven architectures where they add value. An early contributor to front-end improvements in the YiiBooster repo, he brings both UX sensibility and deep systems knowledge to cross-functional teams. Based in Ilfov, Romania, he pairs an applied electronics engineering background with a pragmatic habit of “unlearning” outdated approaches to stay effective in rapidly evolving stacks.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer, Applied Electronics, Engineer, Applied Electronics at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, Romanian