Valeriu Caraulean
Lead Software Engineer at Cargill
Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
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Top SchoolValeriu Caraulean is a Lead Software Engineer based in Geneva with 16 years of experience designing and delivering distributed, cloud-first systems for trading, analytics and transportation domains. He blends deep .NET expertise (including .NET Core, ASP.NET Core, WPF, and CQRS/DDD patterns) with hands-on architecture, infrastructure (AWS, Docker, Kubernetes) and backend engineering leadership. Valeriu has led teams building event-driven, multi-tenant systems and has driven practices like TDD, CI/CD and performance profiling to raise reliability and developer velocity. He is an active community organizer for the Geneva .NET User Group and contributes to open-source projects, notably improving CsvHelper’s mapping and localization capabilities. Comfortable moving between low-level protocol and embedded work to high-scale cloud services, he consistently prioritizes business domain understanding and user experience when shaping solutions. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, mentoring and turning complex trading requirements into maintainable production systems.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master, Telecommunications, Master, Telecommunications at Technical University of Moldova
English, French, Russian, Romanian
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
net10
configuration-management10
dotnet10
csv-parser10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
csv10
csharp10
async-await6
wpf6
entity-framework6
ria6
caliburn-micro6
nlog6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
JoshClose/CsvHelper
Jul 2011 - May 2013
Library to help reading and writing CSV files
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Valeriu primarily focused on enhancing the CsvHelper library by implementing new features and improving existing functionality. They introduced a more flexible approach to class mapping using various methods, including generic and non-generic options. Additionally, the user addressed localization issues by incorporating support for different cultures in CSV reading and writing, ensuring proper handling of decimal separators and date/time formats. They also fixed a bug related to parameter mismatches within the WriteRecords method and updated existing unit tests to confirm the implementations.
csvcsv-readercsv-filescsv-writingcsv-parser
vcaraulean/mGitHub.SampleApp
Nov 2010 - Dec 2012
Contributions:19 commits in 2 years
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