Stefan Costea is a senior back-end Java engineer based in Bucharest with nine years of focused experience delivering high-performance, real-time and parallel processing solutions across major firms like Thales, S&P Global and Luxoft. He excels at performance optimization and tackling complex, low-latency problems, preferring to drive technical direction rather than formal people management. Comfortable in enterprise environments, he brings a pragmatic hands-on approach to systems design and code-level leadership as a technical SME. Though not previously engaged in production AI, he is curious about the space and well positioned to apply his expertise in high-throughput architectures to emerging ML workloads. His career shows long tenures on challenging projects and a pattern of stepping into technically demanding roles where optimization and reliability matter most.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
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Stefan Costea - Senior Software Engineer at Thales