Cristian Popa
Back End Developer at Deutsche Bank
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolCristian Popa is a Back End Developer with 8 years of experience and 4+ years focused on building scalable Java/Spring microservices, currently contributing to Deutsche Bank after a multi-year stint at Vodafone. His background spans telecom, banking, and GIS, combining deep practical skills in event-driven systems, Kafka, SQL/NoSQL, and cross-platform integrations with hands-on production monitoring and troubleshooting. Founder of Atheris Software, he bridges the gap between concept and deployable solutions and emphasizes clean, maintainable code and team collaboration through code reviews and pair programming. His early career in GIS and cartography (including automation for national census and telecom datasets) gives him a rare blend of spatial-data expertise and backend engineering, enabling unique approaches to location-aware platform challenges. Based in Bucharest, he brings a pragmatic, systems-thinking mindset and a track record of shipping reliable services in complex, heterogeneous environments.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Science, Summa Cum Laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Environmental Science, Summa Cum Laude at University of Bucharest
English, Romanian, French, German
Github Skills (11)
maven10
thymeleaf10
java9
bootstrap9
flyway9
javascript8
css8
spring8
sql8
vue8
html7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mihneacristian/Object-Oriented-programming-with-Java
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:100 commits, 93 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
mihneacristian/Android-Report-It
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Contributions:28 commits, 25 pushes in 1 month
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