Attila S.
Technical Lead & Engineering Manager
Experience
Tekmetric Component Developer Engineering Manager
freelance
Senior Engineering Manager
freelance
- As an Engineering Manager over the past two years, I’ve successfully led engineering teams at multiple companies, focusing on both local and remote talent acquisition.
- I played a key role in scaling teams by hiring high-caliber engineers, ensuring a balance of technical excellence and cultural fit.
- I specialized in building and optimizing engineering processes, from development workflows to CI/CD pipelines, resulting in improved team efficiency and code quality.
- My experience spans cross-functional collaboration, aligning engineering goals with business objectives to deliver innovative solutions in dynamic startup environments.
Engineering Manager
Toptal
Besides regular engineering duties, partnered with the data engineering and analytics team to build an ML model that predicts the quality of a new customer / likelihood to stay with Toptal for at least 1 year.
Team leadership and management: overseeing the engineering team, providing guidance, and ensuring team cohesion and productivity.
Conduct weekly 1:1s and lead Scrum ceremonies (stand-up, demo, retrospectives).
Project planning and execution: defining project scopes, timelines, and deliverables, and ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Technical direction and decision-making: setting technical standards and making key architectural and technology choices.
Mentoring and professional development: mentoring engineers for career growth and skill development.
Stakeholder communication: communicating effectively with other departments, upper management, and external stakeholders.
Engineering Manager
Elastic
Engineering Manager
Toptal
Management Consultant
Amplicare
Head of Engineering
Amplicare
Amplicare is a SaaS company on an audacious mission to positively impact one billion patients by 2030.
We sit at the intersection of healthcare and technology to provide solutions that empower pharmacies and patients to make better healthcare choices every day.
Lead, coach, and grow our engineering team; manage a hybrid team located in three different countries.
Work with the CEO and other members of the executive team and stakeholders across customer success, product, design, and sales to improve the current offering and develop new products.
Set clear objectives for the team and compare deliverables against objectives.
Deliver appropriate and timely performance and annual reviews.
Oversee the hiring, development, commitment, and retention of skilled colleagues.
Ensure the development team supports the needs of the business.
Plan, execute, and monitor the department budget.
Director of Engineering
accesa.eu
- Effectively managed a team of ~50 colleagues including project managers, developers (Java, Python, Angular, React), and business analysts.
- Defined career and performance objectives and KPIs for team leads.
- Conducted employee happiness surveys, one-to-ones, and financial discussions.
- Participated in first interviews, defined job descriptions, facilitated technical trainings, and coached team leaders.
- Acted as main point of contact for strategic clients, performed regular on-site visits in the DACH region.
- Ensured team shaping and performance matched client needs.
- Developed technical portfolio and started new collaborations.
- Conducted technical pre-sales including UI/UX design sessions, business analysis, and architectural proposals.
- Implemented proof-of-concepts based on market trends.
- Created the annual business plan and followed execution.
Java Technical Lead
accesa.eu
TIBCO Consultant and Java Developer
accesa.eu
- Designed and implemented TIBCO-based middleware solutions to facilitate efficient data integration and workflow between different systems.
- Integrated various systems using TIBCO software, ensuring seamless data exchange (Stibo, Oracle CRM, SAP PI/PO).
- Troubleshot and optimized issues within the TIBCO environment to improve performance.
- Maintained and upgraded TIBCO applications to ensure security and efficiency.
- Provided training and ongoing support to other engineers on how to connect to Tibco EMS.
- Ensured compliance with industry standards and best practices in integration solutions.
Java Developer
Betfair
- Implemented and maintained secure systems for processing card payments, integrating with secure APIs provided by banks.
- Ensured adherence to international financial standards and government regulations.
- Developed algorithms to detect and prevent fraudulent activities in card transactions.
- Implemented strong encryption methods to protect sensitive payment data.
- Created robust REST APIs for seamless integration of payment systems with other applications.
- Collaborated with front-end developers to integrate payment updates.
- Regularly monitored the system for vulnerabilities and updated it to address new security threats; developed Splunk dashboards for common queries.
- Produced clear and comprehensive documentation regarding system architecture, code, and compliance measures.
Java Developer
Endava
- Architected and developed scalable, robust applications using Java technologies.
- Reviewed code for quality and adherence to best practices.
- Guided junior developers and led development teams.
- Enhanced application performance and efficiency through optimization and tuning.
- Collaborated with UI/UX teams to develop the new frontend of the payments system.
- Wrote and maintained comprehensive technical documentation in Confluence.
- Implemented and managed CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment using Jenkins and CircleCI.
- Communicated with clients and stakeholders to understand and implement specific application requirements.
Java Software Developer
Navigon
- Supported the development of GPS navigation features and user interfaces.
- Wrote clean, efficient code under the supervision of senior developers and conducted basic testing using Java Mockito.
- Identified and fixed bugs in the application.
- Continuously learned and implemented new web technologies relevant to GPS navigation.
- Maintained clear documentation and FAQ pages for end users.
- Participated in code review sessions to learn best practices.
- Assisted in the design of user-friendly interfaces for the GPS application.
Summary
Technology Manager experienced in start-ups, near-shore locations,in multilingual and multi-cultural environments. Interested to learn more about the challenges of remote leadership and management of global teams .Solid background in Engineering, always keen to keep myselfupdated with the latest technology trends. Strong technical background with hands-on software development experience and a growing focus on modern AI-assisted engineering workflows. Comfortable translating complex business requirements into clear technical plans, aligning cross-functional teams, and delivering outcomes in fast-moving product organizations.
Skills
- Technical leadership and delivery in agile environments
- End-to-end software delivery: planning, execution, release, and iteration
- Leading and coordinating cross-functional, distributed engineering teams
- Translating business objectives into actionable technical initiatives
- Strong understanding of software architecture, APIs, and data models
- Hands-on background in software development and system integration
- Engineering process design, optimization, and continuous improvement
- CI/CD pipelines, release management, and deployment practices
- Production operations, monitoring, and incident support
- Observability platforms and logging/metrics systems (including Elastic-based stacks)
- Automated tooling and infrastructure-related workflows
- Operational reliability, performance tuning, and system health monitoring
- Stakeholder communication across engineering, product, and business
Languages
Education
Technical University of Cluj Napoca
Computer science Engineer · Computer science · Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Colegiul National Silvania
Zalău, Romania
Certifications & licenses
Oracle Certified Associate, Java
Oracle Certified Expert, Java (PMI-ACP) SE 8 Programmer
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner
Web Component Developer
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