Summary
Octav Zaharia is a backend-focused software engineer and technical leader with over two decades of programming experience and nine years in senior roles building distributed systems. He combines hands-on expertise in Scala, Java, Kotlin and .NET with cloud-native practices (GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform) to design resilient, event-driven architectures using Kafka, Postgres and ZIO. Octav has led teams and mentored newcomers as a trainer while shipping production integrations for financial and observability platforms, and he frequently bridges architecture and implementation as a hands-on architect. He has a track record of introducing Scala into legacy Java stacks, building initial cloud infrastructure for startups, and improving data flows and GDPR-compliant warehouses. Based in Iași, Romania, he is open to part-time, full-time or project roles and brings a practical blend of mentoring, training, and production-facing problem solving. An unusual strength is his parallel focus on developer enablement—automating deployments and teaching functional programming to accelerate team velocity.
8 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
No degree, Mathematics/Computer science, No degree, Mathematics/Computer science at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
Italian, French, Romanian, English