Summary
Vlad Jula-nedelcu is an experienced IT Technical Manager and PHP architect with over two decades in backend engineering and 12 years in leadership roles, delivering high-traffic, mission-critical systems. He combines deep PHP framework expertise (Laravel, Symfony, Yii) with microservices, AWS, Python and hands-on DevOps to modernize monoliths into resilient distributed architectures. Vlad has led teams of 5–35 engineers, driven CI/CD and infrastructure design, and optimized platforms that handled up to 2M+ daily users. Recently he led delivery of a production conversational AI platform integrating OpenAI and Google Gemini APIs, demonstrating a pragmatic blend of cutting-edge ML integrations and production-grade reliability. As a recurring solutions architect and founder-type operator, he frequently spans roles from code-level implementation to infrastructure and product strategy. Based in Bucharest, he favors rapid R&D initiatives (hackathons) to prototype business-facing innovations while mentoring teams to adopt maintainable, scalable patterns.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
IT Management (not finished), IT Management (not finished) at Romanian American University
Assistant Programmer, Informatics, Assistant Programmer, Informatics at Al. D. Ghica
Aerospace Engineering (not finished), Aerospace Engineering (not finished) at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, Romanian