Summary
Nicolae Ghergu is a Software Engineer 3 with nine years of experience building resilient, production-grade backend systems across finance, telecom, and healthcare domains. Based in Bucharest, he brings deep Java and Kotlin expertise—Spring Boot, WebFlux, Kafka, CQRS and event-driven architectures—combined with practical DevOps skills like Docker, Kubernetes and ArgoCD for end-to-end feature ownership. He has reduced operational burden with automation (Spring Batch) and caching strategies (Hazelcast, Apache Ignite) and has a knack for solving subtle data problems such as N+1 queries using Hibernate proxies. A natural teacher and collaborator, Nicolae has lectured in OOP labs at the University of Bucharest and mentored peers at hackathons, which complements his pragmatic, improvement-focused engineering style. He’s currently contributing to Oracle Health’s Clinical Digital Assistant, bringing a math-minded curiosity and the motto “a pessimist is a well-informed optimist” to balance cautious design with confident delivery.
10 years of coding experience