Nicolae Cristea
Director Of Software Engineering at Enkas
Timișoara, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolae Cristea is a Director of Software Engineering with over 18 years in software development and 11 years in leadership, specializing in cloud-native microservices, Golang gRPC, Kubernetes, and GCP. He has built and scaled cross-functional engineering divisions, managed multiple teams, and led delivery of event-driven, containerized platforms for B2B products and mobile/web frontends. A hands-on architect and manager, he has implemented CI/CD, observability, HTTP/2/gRPC routing, and infrastructure-as-code while driving tech strategy aligned to business goals. Nicolae’s career blends deep PHP/Symfony roots and modern Go-based tooling—he’s built internal Go tooling (CI, network monitoring, podman compose) and production-grade gRPC streaming systems. Known for turning complex legacy stacks into scalable microservice ecosystems, he also offers fractional engineering leadership and tailored consultancy packs for rapid impact. Based in Timișoara, Romania, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a partnership mindset, often delivering innovations through contractor and B2B collaborations.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul National "Lucian Blaga"2011, Automation and Computer Science, Automation and Applied Informatics, 2011, Automation and Computer Science, Automation and Applied Informatics at Politehnica University of Timisoara
English, Italian, French, Romanian
Github Skills (9)
deploying4
webpack4
cli3
react3
react-native3
react-native-web2
expo-router2
expo2
tamagui1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
nvcristea/bash-tasks
May 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:1 release, 10 commits, 10 pushes in 8 months
nvcristea/vagrant
Feb 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 16 commits, 20 pushes in 11 months
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