Summary
Ciprian Pricopie is a Senior Software Engineer with six years of hands-on experience building scalable backend systems across PHP and Java ecosystems, currently contributing at Microsoft from Romania. He specializes in high-throughput, distributed architectures using PHP 7+, Spryker, Docker, RabbitMQ, Postgres/Propel, Redis and Elasticsearch, and has transitioned into Java/Spring and AWS for fintech-grade, highly available services. Ciprian has repeatedly moved from individual contributor to technical team lead, owning estimates, production support, cross-team coordination and turning business requirements into technical enablers and POCs. His background includes optimizing large e-commerce catalogs and real-time integrations (millions of prices, thousands of SKUs) and running multi-team efforts supporting 30+ streams in enterprise environments. Known for pragmatic architecture thinking, he’s currently shifting more toward platform and architecture responsibilities while retaining deep troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills. Based in Romania, he combines legacy-framework experience with modern cloud-native practices, enabling smooth migrations and reliable production systems.
6 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer