Rares Urdea
Lead Software Engineer at Thriving Center of Psychology
Brasov, Romania
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Top SchoolRares Urdea is a Lead Software Engineer based in Brașov, Romania, with 11 years of experience building and running resilient backend systems. He has progressed from hands-on Python and Java engineering to technical leadership roles—managing backend chapters, architecting scalable services, and overseeing CI/CD and incident response at companies like Sportradar and Amplicare. Rares specializes in cloud-native architectures on AWS (Lambda, Aurora, ElastiCache, SQS) and low-latency APIs, balancing performance SLAs and technical debt while aligning product and stakeholder priorities. He also brings people and process experience as a former engineering manager responsible for recruitment, KPIs and compliance (SOC2/HIPAA). Driven by a focus on positive impact through software, he pairs deep operational know-how with a knack for turning legacy systems into maintainable, high-performing platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Natural Sciences, High School, Natural Sciences at Colegiul National Andrei Saguna BrasovBachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Information Technology at Universitatea Babes-Bolyai Cluj
English, French, German, Romanian, Japanese
Stackoverflow
650reputation
166kreached
3answers
17questions
Github Skills (38)
visualization10
slack10
database10
mysql9
postgresql9
dashboard9
analytics9
metabase9
clojure9
data-analysis9
data-visualization9
scrape8
business-intelligence8
embedded-analytics8
bitbucket-server7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rares-urdea/tamadawines
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
rares-urdea/carberry-pi
Aug 2015 - Feb 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 5 months
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