
Bogdan Beca
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Architect and Developer
Bogdan has 25+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise-level systems, delivering tens of large projects for top organizations in domains like energy, pharma, telco, eCommerce, the public sector, and banking. As a solutions architect, Bogdan can deliver end-to-end solution architecture and design POCs or MVPs. Besides an excellent knowledge of Azure, Bogdan's top development skills are SQL (Microsoft Azure SQL Database, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Spark), Synapse stack, and .NET stack.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
SQL, Azure, .NET, Azure Synapse
The most amazing...
...thing was architecting and building an MDM concept for a large energy organization—integrating operational systems, SCADA, SAP (PM), and specialized data marts.
Work Experience
Owner
Ares Software Srl
- Fulfilled various roles, including software engineering, solution architecture and design, data architecture and design, core development, prototyping, and software development for various contracting parties.
- Contributed to the SOM neural network project. Worked on proprietary ML algorithms for SOM training, U-matrix generation, hierarchical clustering, and segmentation.
- Worked on a range of projects, including a global product information management (PIM) implementation.
Solutions Architect
JT International S.A. - Main
- Participated in high-level design and ensured EA governance for JTI Digital Ecosystem.
- Evaluated enterprise fitness for new technology adoption by providing POCs or MVPs on specific topics. Developed guidelines and best practices for future technology use.
- Served as a solution architect in strategic projects and major global initiatives.
Senior Consultant (Frame Contract, Assignment Based)
Accenture
- Architected the solution, created the data architecture, and designed an enterprise COTS implementation for an energy client.
- Oversaw a complex ML implementation for oil-and-gas production forecasting.
- Designed the API and contributed to the development for Azure and hybrid deployment.
Solution Architect | Developer Lead | Consultant (Contractor)
Strategikon Pharma
- Architected, designed, and handled the core development for a high-performance online transaction processing (OLTP) system on Azure platform-as-a-service (PaaS) for ERP architecture.
- Designed and advised on the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and operational processes and practices.
- Led the development of SQL implementation and API integration.
Operational Architect
OMV PETROM
- Contributed to all business IT initiatives from early demand to validating feasibility, evaluating risks, and proposing architectural scenarios; directly involved, hands-on, in strategic projects.
- Served in a key position during a fragile process, working in all IT-related activities. Defined the architectural change requests and aligned the architecture lifecycle with portfolio management.
- Defined, guided, and controlled the enterprise integration architecture; also defined and maintained the reference architectures and guidelines.
- Architected, designed, and implemented the core of an incremental production DSS solution. It involved highly complex analytics for well work over efficiency calculation and decision support.
- Created the core of an electrical lines asset management and risk-based inspection solution. It involved inventory with linear referencing, functional parameters monitoring and reporting, and risk calculations for inspection optimization.
- Built the technical foundation of a digital oil field (DOF) program; it involved ~4,000 sites with automation/instrumentation, five SCADA systems, data virtualization, several large operational systems, a master data store, and several data marts.
- Developed the RBI and pipeline integrity management solution. It involved a massive inventory of pipelines and flowlines (200,000 KM) with linear referencing, avg. of 120 parameters per class, complex risk calculations, and inspection optimization.
- Designed and prototyped a high-performance operational data store for operational integrations, based on data virtualization and in-memory caching.
- Architected the solution and implemented it for intelligent well-status calculations (replacing the existing "if-else" approach with a relational mask of ~2,500+ business rules complemented by automatic discovery from transition history).
Data Architect (Contractor)
TeamNet
- Architected and designed the data marts and aggregation strategy for the national pension system.
- Defined the legacy data migration strategy for all legacy pension data scattered on various digital persistence formats.
- Designed and implemented the smart input automatic adapting ETL with “complexity compression."
- Designed and implemented and industrial printing solution for pension payslips (template-based ASCII generation).
Solution Architect | Developer (Contractor)
DIGI
- Design and developed a workflow engine/process orchestrator.
- Participated in CRM data modeling by reversing a legacy CRM implementation.
- Contributed to the design of the enterprise integration solution with surrounding operational systems (ERPs, a billing system); worked on ETL prototyping for Microsoft stack integrations.
Operational Architect
OMV PETROM
- Defined, guided, and controlled the enterprise integration architecture; also defined and maintained the reference architectures and guidelines.
- Built an operational support system for well work over an intervention system (ERP); it involved high-level solution architecture, prototyping the integration with MDS & SAP PM, defining the reporting/aggregation strategy, complex, analytics and KPIs.
- Implemented the MDM which required refining and aligning a master data management concept for all E&P systems, defining and designing an MDS reference architectural framework using SOA, and technical project management.
- Built a well log management system which involved defining the draft architecture and prototyping, designing the MDS integration, and designing and specifying the solution for offline large E&P logs loading/management over low bandwidth connections.
- Planning the portfolio and acreage management (Austria) which involved leading the data modelling for acreage (commercial fields) and reserves/opportunities management and leading the solution architecture and design.
- Led the architecture and design for the E&P subsurface master data store.
Solution Architect | Business Analyst (Contractor)
OMV PETROM
- Led the analysis, design, and implementation of a web application for well header data gathering (a temporary data gathering tool for data consolidation).
- Migrated the legacy production data which involved risk analysis, defining the migration strategy, bespoke ETLs with Oracle and .NET, and iterative QC support and heuristic matching; it recovered 97.3% of the original data (~1 billion records).
- Analyzed the well lifecycle which required a business analysis to assess IT-relevant WLC process, deliverables, and activities, interviews with businesses in the field, and re-engineering recommendations for optimizing well-status transitions.
Process Engineer | Data Manager (Contractor)
PwC Romania, Investment Banking Arm
- Supported the system architecture and provided data management expertise for SOX compliance preparation on behalf of a major local telco's IPO.
- Worked as part of the process engineering team for a massive fixed-asset reconciliation project.
- Developed a temporary fixed-asset solution for capturing fixed assets moving during the reconciliation process.
Business Analyst | Database Designer | Developer (Contractor)
Telekom Romania
- Handled a major telco's OSS implementation and designed the databases for some subsections.
- Analyzed, refined, and formalized business requirements and changes with Rational Rose.
- Developed integration workflows using Oracle advanced queuing and XML outlet feeds.
Solution Architect | Developer (Contractor)
Deuromedia, RO
- Architected and designed a portfolio management solution for a US bank (outsourced development).
- Developed the sore sections in .NET and designed and implemented the databases.
- Provided technical project management in relation with business stakeholders.
Solution Architect | Developer (Contractor)
Transoft, NL/RO
- Led the OLAP architecture, design, and implementation for an enterprise-retail back-end solution on the ARTS framework.
- Developed with .NET the back-end processing services (Windows Services).
- Performed complex aggregations and analytics for reporting (Oracle development).
Solution Architect
Medicarom, RO
- Architected and developed a core SQL Server implementation of EPINET (national epidemiological survey system).
- Coached and advised other projects on database design and integration.
- Implemented in .NET a back-end notification engine.
Solution Architect
Deuromedia, RO
- Designed and developed a complex bandwidth management implementation. (OLTP) for satellite broadcast and multicast solutions.
- Supported multiple projects concerning solution architecture and database integration.
- Prototyped the requirements of a new initiative for implementation feasibility.
Solution Architect | Developer
Euro Systems Development (US Offshore), RO
- Led the architecture, design, and development of a DSS (decision support system) for a large telco operator based in the US.
- Led the architecture, design, and development of a CRM for a relocation company in the US.
- Served as a technical lead in all projects and provided technical project management.
Developer
Various Companies, RO
- Implemented welding machine automation using Atmel microcontrollers.
- Automated fuel pumps using Atmel microcontrollers.
- Built a labeling system for medical prescription registration and printing.
Experience
Global PIM
• Integration of a PIM SaaS (Akeneo) solution as a global PIM for multiple eCommerce systems (Magento);
• Event-driven asynchronous integration with Azure Functions;
• A complex routing schema for markets, environment types, channels, locales, and operations scopes (possibility to scale on hundreds of targets);
• Loosely coupled the design with an extensible configuration to allow heterogeneous eCommerce configurations.
Clinical Maestro
ML Production Forecast
It's been proven 15% more efficient than traditional forecasting on historical regressions.
Incremental Production DSS
Risk-based Inspection (RBI) and Pipeline Integrity Management (PIM)
Key Features:
• Linear referencing (with engineering station points and station equations)
• GIS referencing
• Hundreds of parameters for monitoring on each asset for quantitative and qualitative monitoring
• Dynamic segmentation
• FMECA (failure mode, effects, and criticality analysis) risk models for pipelines, flowlines, piping, and static equipment
• SAP PM and MM integration for automation inspection proposal
It has around 100 daily active users (integrity engineers and their teams). We presented the solution at the GITA Oil and Gas Pipeline Conference 2014, Houston, TX, as one of the largest and most complex PODS implementations worldwide.
Oil Field Manager
E&P Master Data Management
SOM Neural Network
I used Azure, SQL, .NET, OpenCL, Vega charts, and .NET MAUI.
Skills
Languages
SQL, T-SQL (Transact-SQL), C#, Stored Procedure, UML, JavaScript
Frameworks
.NET, Pods.io, .NET Core, Spark, COBIT
Libraries/APIs
Azure Cognitive Services, SharePoint API, ArcGIS
Tools
Synapse, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Power BI
Paradigms
OLAP, ETL, Database Design, ITIL, Azure DevOps
Platforms
Oracle, Azure, Azure PaaS
Storage
Master Data Management (MDM), OLTP, Azure SQL, Oracle PL/SQL, Databases, Database Transactions, Microsoft SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS), PL/SQL, Data Pipelines
Other
Enterprise Architecture, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Data Engineering, Data Modeling, Azure Synapse, APIs, Product Information Management (PIM), Azure Data Lake, ELT, Data Analytics, Complex Data Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Management, Data Warehousing, Data Migration, SaaS, BPM, TOGAF, Machine Learning, Visualization, SOX, CRM APIs, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), eCommerce, OpenCL/GPU, .NET MAUI
Education
Licensed Engineer (Master Degree Equivalent Following the Bolognia Standard) in Electronics and Computer Science
Transilvania University - Brasov, Romania