Summary
Romulus Crisan is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with 11 years of experience leading teams that build identity and passwordless authentication systems to protect customer sign-ins. He combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, having previously led billing and translation productivity platforms at Intercom and SDL where he grew teams, launched cloud offerings, and modernized legacy codebases. Known for balancing product-focused delivery with platform robustness, he has driven enterprise-grade monetization, accurate usage metering, and compliance efforts. Romulus is an active technologist and communicator—blogging, open-sourcing tooling during his developer-evangelist role, and growing developer communities. Based in Dublin, he brings a practical blend of backend, web and native application experience to security and identity challenges. Colleagues describe him as a builder who turns complex security and monetization requirements into operational, scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Romanian, English