Cristian Calugaru is a Staff Software Engineer based in London with 10 years of experience building large-scale data and distributed systems for finance, government, and fraud-detection platforms. He has deep expertise in streaming architectures, Kafka KStreams, Kubernetes and AWS, and currently contributes to Forter’s trust platform automating digital commerce fraud detection. Previously he led data platform and analytics efforts at comparethemarket.com, General Intelligence, UBS and Thomson Reuters, delivering compliant, high-throughput solutions for sensitive financial and regulatory workloads. A passionate server-side engineer and co-founder of the Cluj Big Data and Data Science Meetup, he blends hands-on engineering with community leadership. His background in internet distributed systems (Master’s) and international study in France underpin a pragmatic approach to scalable, resilient systems. Colleagues would point to his knack for turning complex regulatory and ML requirements into production-ready, observable data pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Scholarship, Computer Software Engineering, Erasmus Scholarship, Computer Software Engineering at Institut National des sciences Appliquées, Rouen, France
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Babes Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Cristian Calugaru - Staff Software Engineer at Forter