Lead Software Engineer

May 2006 – Dec 2008

Timisoara, Romania

Created and led the technical team delivering the Romanian version of funda.nl / rightmove.co.uk.

The company was valued at EUR 100.000 when I joined. Ten years later, with a 50+ FTE team still running in production >50 % code written by my original team, the company sold to an investment fund for over EUR 20.000.000.

• Coordinated the technical team for the online software development department.
• Established the entire software development process, choose the software tools, decide workflow and responsibilities of team members.
• Architected and documented the base framework for development, chose libraries and other development tools, designed structures and code for the individual projects.
• Redesigned the entire code base for the new generation of real estate online software provided by imobiliare.ro.