Summary
Iulian Dogariu is a pragmatic engineering leader and CTO with 16+ years of hands-on experience turning complex systems into reliable, shippable products across cloud, embedded and data platforms. He combines deep engineering skills in Java, Scala, Ruby and C/C++ with strong architecture and team-coaching instincts to modernize legacy systems, introduce telemetry, and scale niche capabilities like functional programming and big-data pipelines. At Activaite he runs product and tech ops for AI-driven personalized fitness and nutrition apps while still pairing with engineers across the full stack from UX to infrastructure. His career includes shipping embedded firmware for novel WiFi-based retail devices, rewiring enterprise translation products to REST-driven SPAs, and founding company-wide developer career and interviewing frameworks. Iulian is unusually comfortable oscillating between low-level driver and firmware work and high-level product architecture, and he prioritizes clean design, TDD practices and measurable operational observability. Based in Iași, Romania, he prefers meaningful introductions from recruiters that explain opportunity fit rather than cold outreach.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Russian, German, Romanian