Iulian Popa
Tech Lead at eMAG
Iași, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolIulian Popa is a Tech Lead with 11 years of experience designing and delivering scalable, maintainable web applications using Cloud and Open Source technologies. He combines hands-on backend expertise in PHP (Symfony, Laravel) and microservices on AWS with strong practices like DDD, hexagonal architecture, TDD and infrastructure as code (Terraform). At eMAG he leads an 8-developer team, drove a migration from a modular monolith to microservices, and introduced testing and domain-driven design across the squad. As a contributor to the widely used Akeneo PIM, he focused on backend refactors that improved event handling and persistence consistency—evidence of his emphasis on long-term code health. He also brings consultancy experience in reverse-engineering and product integration for real estate platforms, showing an ability to bridge business needs and technical solutions. Based in Iași with a master’s in Business Information Systems, he blends people leadership, architecture and pragmatic delivery.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Business Information Systems, 10, Master's degree, Business Information Systems, 10 at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
Romanian, English
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Github Skills (11)
php10
akeneo10
pim10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
open-source9
git6
homebrew6
doctrine-orm6
api6
github6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
akeneo/pim-community-dev
Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
[Community Development Repository] The open source Product Information Management (PIM)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 20 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Iulian primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Akeneo PIM backend code. Their contributions involved modifying core components such as savers, specifically addressing event dispatching and ensuring data persistence by refactoring the code to dispatch events after flushing changes. They also worked on removing options related to flushing and used base options resolvers, indicating a focus on code maintainability and consistency across the application. Additionally, they were involved in fixing merge conflicts and removing unnecessary dependencies.
ziggyinformation-managementjavascriptphpbackbonejs
iulyanp/symfocker
Dec 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 release, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 2 months
docker-setupenvironment-setupphpdockersymfony2
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