Victor Chicu
Senior Java Software Engineer
Chișinău, Moldova
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Top SchoolVictor Chicu is a Senior Java Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience building scalable backend services, data pipelines, and cloud-native applications across telecom, marketplaces, and conversational AI. He specializes in modern Java and the Spring ecosystem, Kafka/Kafka Streams, Keycloak-based identity solutions, and automated testing with TestContainers, and has repeatedly reduced custom auth code and operational risk by centralizing identity and SSO. His background includes designing real-time streaming systems, memory-efficient sitemap generators for large datasets, and ETL/ML pipelines where he even implemented a SQL-like query language for streaming data before KSQL existed. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs pragmatic engineering with marketing-minded tools (scrapers, traffic drivers, and templated messaging) to improve adoption and UX. Based in Chișinău, Moldova, Victor combines hands-on implementation with automation and integration expertise that often turns brittle, custom features into reusable platform capabilities.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Vasile AlecsandriInformation Technology, Information Technology at Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei
Romanian, Russian, English
Stackoverflow
116reputation
29kreached
4answers
10questions
Github Skills (60)
kafka-streams9
api9
apache-kafka9
streams-api9
spring8
kafka8
autocomplete8
security8
java8
csharp7
argument-parsing7
apache7
spring-boot7
dotnet7
command-line-parser7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
loopnotzero/Bazaar
Jun 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:337 pushes, 8 branches in 8 months
alrightlook/muserver
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Mu server open source project
Contributions:159 commits in 1 month
open-source-projectmu-server
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