Summary
Mihai Ratiu is a seasoned engineering leader with 17 years of experience, currently serving as Engineering Area Deputy at Alan after shaping observability and developer experience at Ocado Technology. He blends hands-on backend engineering (Spring, Java, AWS, Terraform) with platform and organizational design, delivering Platform-as-a-Product solutions that drive observability, productivity, and security across thousands of services. Mihai is a practitioner of Lean and Kaizen, frequently applying continuous improvement to both teams and technical processes to reduce cognitive load for engineers. He has architected N-tier, microservices, modulith and event-driven systems and led cross-functional teams through full product lifecycles from requirements to production. Less obvious: he pairs strategic vendor and cost-aware observability decisions with day-to-day incident management and individual coding contributions, keeping work both tactical and long-term.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Technical University of Cluj Napoca
Romanian, English, French, Spanish, Catalan