Iuliana Cosmina
Senior Managing Principal Engineer at Apress
Kirkcaldy, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIuliana Cosmina is a Senior Managing Principal Engineer with 12+ years building and leading cloud-native, distributed systems and Java/Spring-based platforms from design to production. Based in Scotland, she combines deep hands-on expertise—evidenced by long-running contributions to canonical Spring resources such as the Pro Spring 5 and Pivotal Certified exam sample repos—with people leadership and product strategy at Cloudsoft.io. Her work spans Java, Spring Boot, Go Lambdas, AWS services (DynamoDB, S3, SQS/SNS), Kubernetes and CI/CD, and she routinely bridges engineering, DevOps and architecture responsibilities. As a technical author for Apress she keeps developer-facing material current, which amplifies her coaching and mentoring impact. Notably, she has repeatedly modernized complex legacy systems and orchestrated migrations (CVS→Git, cloud lifts) while also implementing efficient algorithms early in her career. She is currently not actively seeking roles but is available for remote technical counsel.
12 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master Distributed Systems, Master Distributed Systems at Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași
German, French, English, Italian
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Github Skills (18)
configuration-management10
java10
javas10
configuration-file10
spring-boot10
configurations10
dependency-injection10
springframework10
jtest9
junit9
maven9
hibernate8
database-design7
coding-style6
spring-webflow6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Apress/pivotal-certified-pro-spring-dev-exam-02
Oct 2018 - Jan 2022
Source Code for 'Pivotal Certified Professional Core Spring 5 Developer Exam' by Iuliana Cosmina
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 115 commits, 15 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Iuliana's commits primarily focused on setting up the base structure for a Spring Boot application, specifically for the 'Pivotal Certified Professional Core Spring 5 Developer Exam' by Iuliana Cosmina. They added module-info.java files across various chapters and introduced initial classes, along with code for beans and configuration files within the project's structure. Furthermore, the commits demonstrate the user's initial setup and class creation for the project.
spring-bootspring-dataprofessionalj2eespringframework
Apress/pro-spring-5
Nov 2017 - May 2022
Source code for 'Pro Spring 5' by Iuliana Cosmina, Rob Harrop, Chris Schaefer, and Clarence Ho
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1 review, 37 commits in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Iuliana primarily contributed to the back-end aspects of the project, focusing on Spring framework configuration and enhancements. They added configuration files for dependency injection, updated security configurations, and implemented password encoding. Furthermore, the user fixed configuration files, upgraded library versions, and addressed issues related to environment settings, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's infrastructure and dependencies. They also contributed to build-related tasks and refactoring, improving the overall maintainability of the codebase.
spring-bootspringspring-5javaschaefer
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