Summary
Silviu Cătărău is a Senior Software Consultant based in Bucharest with 12 years of experience building large-scale, microservices-driven systems for enterprise clients, currently contributing to a 40+ microservice platform at the European Commission. He is a pragmatic full-stack engineer who primarily focuses on Java backend systems (Spring, Spring Boot, Axon, Kafka, Hibernate) while occasionally shipping Angular front-end features. His background spans legacy modernization, performance-focused engineering and distributed tracing/observability using tools like Zipkin, Prometheus and Grafana, reflecting a strong operational mindset. Past roles include full-stack and mobile work for retail and healthcare projects, where he led refactors, improved app performance and delivered responsive UX. Comfortable in cloud-native environments with Docker and Kubernetes, he blends clean-code practices, design patterns and testing discipline in long-lived codebases. Colleagues value him for turning complex requirements into reliable, maintainable services while keeping an eye on environmental and business impact.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian