Serj Lotutovici
Software Engineering Manager II at TomTom
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolSerj Lotutovici is a seasoned software engineering manager with 13 years of experience leading backend and mobile teams in financial services and mapping/navigation at TomTom. He combines hands-on expertise in Java, Kotlin and Android with a proven track record of building developer-friendly infrastructure, CI pipelines and scalable platform services. As a long-time chapter lead and manager he focuses on architecture, team coaching and cross-functional API design to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality. Serj is also an active open-source contributor to high-profile projects like Square’s Moshi JSON library, where he improved debugging, refactored core JSON reader methods and optimized adapter behavior. Based in Amsterdam, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset shaped by roles from senior Android developer to SRE platform owner. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex technical constraints into maintainable systems and measurable team outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology Engineer, Information Technology, Information Technology Engineer, Information Technology at State University of Moldova
English, Russian, Romanian, Dutch
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Github Skills (13)
kotlin10
json10
javas10
refactoring10
java10
testing9
performance-optimization9
gson6
json-api6
android-gradle-plugin6
android6
retrofit6
moshi6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
square/moshi
Nov 2016 - Apr 2017
A modern JSON library for Kotlin and Java.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 23 PRs, 81 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Serj primarily focused on improving the `moshi` JSON library, a Kotlin and Java library, by enhancing its internal functionality. They implemented `toString()` methods for `ArrayJsonAdapter` and `JsonReaderFactory` for better debugging and diagnostics. The user also refactored `JsonReader` methods, making `selectName` and `selectString` public and improving the efficiency of the select methods by removing unnecessary escaping. Further contributions include enhancing the `ClassJsonAdapter` and `EnumJsonAdapter` to rely only on the Options.
json-librarykotlinjavajsonjson-parser
serj-lotutovici/moshi-lazy-adapters
Jul 2016 - May 2018
A collection of simple JsonAdapters for Moshi.
Contributions:48 commits, 88 PRs, 111 pushes in 1 year 9 months
utilitiesextentionsjsonmoshi
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