Catalin Adler
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Haarlem, Netherlands
Toptal member since August 9, 2019
Catalin is a technologist and people manager. He brings over 15 years of enterprise product development experience in both startup and corporate environments. Catalin has designed and built distributed Cloud systems used by top US companies on Azure, AWS & GCP, as well as an ERP system on Microsoft's .NET stack used by more than 4,000 users from over 350 different businesses.
Portfolio
Experience
- C# - 17 years
- Azure - 8 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 2 years
- Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) - 1 year
- .NET Core - 1 year
- Kubernetes - 1 year
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, .NET, Windows
The most amazing...
...project I've built is a SeniorERP product, the teams developing the product, and the high-quality, "there is nothing we can't do" culture around it.
Work Experience
Vice President of Technical Product Management
Code Nation
- Built a multi-Cloud distributed system related to code analysis and code refactoring that continuously monitors all PRs over a portfolio of thousands of codebases.
- Built a behavior modeling product to enable an organization to understand individual developer's detailed contributions to violations of coding best practices.
- Managed the technical architecture to enable high scalability for more than 20,000 analyses per day and the simplifying of operations and development.
Vice President of Technical Product Management
DevFactory
- Spearheaded technology deep dives of existing products: HR management systems, DAM solutions, financial ERPs, CRMs, Cloud-based developer tools and services, alerting systems, and digital marketing systems.
- Redesigned an on-prem knowledge-management system as a multi-tenant distributed Cloud system on AWS, reducing up to 80% of its core processing subsystems Loc.
- Redesigned an high-available emergency alerting and messaging distributed Cloud system on AWS, increasing elasticity throughout using only serverless technologies.
- Designed enhancements for Cloud developer platforms and tools, digital marketing solutions, retail, and for tier 1, 2, and 3 telecommunications systems.
Software Development Manager
Senior Software
- Built an ERP system for SMB companies, from the group up, using the .NET platform on desktop (.NET framework 1.1 up to 4.7) and SQL Server (2000 up to 2016). The result was high-performance, low TCO, highly extensible, supporting rich and robust integrations.
- Built an Azure-based management system to handle all ERP deployments across 300 customers and 4000 workstations. Used AppService, OWIN, Table Storage, Blob Storage, Service Bus, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure Functions, AppInsights, CosmosDB, Worker Roles. Achieved an up to 80% reduction in the cost of SeniorERP updates.
- Built an Azure-based service that acts as an online extension to SeniorERP. Used Node.JS, AppService, CosmosDB, SQL Server, AppInsights, and Blob Storage.
- Built a .NET Compact framework-based SFA application with support for offline operations on Windows Mobile OS.
- Managed up to 20 people, two development teams; the QA, and IT team.
- Led the Agile transformation to Scrum methodology achieving regular monthly releases of SeniorERP and all related tooling.
Experience
SeniorERP
https://www.seniorerp.ro/en/Senior Cloud Bridge
SeniorERP Online Services
https://os.seniorerp.ro/Code Analysis Platform
Education
Master of Science Degree in Computer Science
Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics - Bucharest, Romania
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Windows Forms (WinForms), Node.js, Entity Framework
Tools
Visual Studio, Azure App Service, TFS, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Wix
Languages
C#, Transact-SQL (T-SQL), Java, Python, JavaScript, HTML, TypeScript
Frameworks
.NET, Windows Workflow Foundation, ADO.NET, .NET Core, Blazor, Angular, Spring Boot, ASP.NET Web API, ASP.NET Core 2, ASP.NET Web Forms, Entity Framework Core, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Storage
SQL Server DBA, OLTP, Azure Table Storage, Azure Blobs, Elasticsearch, Microsoft SQL Server, Neo4j, Redis, Azure Cosmos DB
Paradigms
Parallel Programming, Scrum
Platforms
Azure, Windows, iOS, Android, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Kubernetes
Other
DevExpress, WCF Web Services, Performance Tuning, System Design, Code Review, People Management, Quartz.NET, Windows System Administration, IT Networking, Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), Workflow, OWIN
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