Summary
Raluca Portase is a software engineer and CS lecturer with nine years of experience building scalable, high-availability systems and teaching algorithmic foundations at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. She combines industrial engineering work on large-scale web platforms (serving hundreds of millions of sessions monthly) with academic research—her PhD focused on industrial big data forecasting and predictive maintenance to improve resource management. Comfortable across languages and the full software lifecycle, she has delivered performance-sensitive features at National Instruments and led optimization and sparse linear solver research during internships. She mentors students and junior engineers, supervising bachelors and masters projects that bridge theory and production needs. Known for a practical approach to design, implementation, and testing, she pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on systems experience in IoT, time series processing, and algorithms.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Ecole normale supérieure de Lyon
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Information Technology, Excelent, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science and Information Technology, Excelent at Technical University of Cluj Napoca
Mathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Colegiul Naţional Emil Racoviţă, Cluj-Napoca
English, Romanian