Theo Chirica
Engineering Manager at Lendable
Dundee, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolTheo Chirica is an engineering manager with 11+ years in tech and 5+ years leading teams and technical leaders, known for scaling high-performing squads and building future leaders across payments and insurance domains. He combines hands-on technical fluency (Java, Ruby/Rails, cloud-native stacks) with strong delivery discipline, having driven company-wide initiatives like an AI rollout projected to deliver ~233% annual ROI. Theo excels at reducing duplication through shared platform services, refining processes that other teams adopt, and aligning Product and Engineering to measurable business outcomes. He is action-oriented, prioritises sustainable delivery and quality, and is passionate about creating supportive environments where engineers grow into leaders. Based in Dundee, Scotland, he brings a psychology background to people-focused leadership and a track record of rapid onboarding and impact in fast-moving organisations.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Psychology, Bachelor's degree Psychology at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
Romanian, English
Stackoverflow
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60answers
7questions
mercurial
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ruby-on-rails
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ruby
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redirect
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routes
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rspec
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Github Skills (176)
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html-webpack-plugin10
javascript10
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html10
rails10
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Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
budmc29/js_sandbox
Oct 2017 - Oct 2019
JavaScript Sandbox
Contributions:69 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
jsjavascriptsandboxjavascript-sandbox
budmc29/sandbox
Jan 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:91 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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