Irina Sandu
Java Software Engineer
Mannheim
Summary
Senior Java/Spring Boot developer with 15 years of experience in full-cycle backend development, from requirements to deployment. Skilled in software design, technical leadership, and delivering robust, scalable solutions within Scrum teams. Proven ability to develop high-quality Java applications, with a focus on clean code, maintainability, and efficient development practices. Strong problem-solver, team collaborator, and advocate for best practices in testing, CI/CD, and code quality.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
Languages
Work History
Software Developer
SII Deutschland GmbH, Sii Group Romania
02.2023 - Current
- Automotive project, Agile Safe
- Java 25, Spring boot 3.5, Redis
- Microservices architecture
- Responsible for 2 major parts of the application, from requirements gathering till production
- Direct communication with the client representatives
- Involved in all technical and architectural decisions
- I started at the company’s Romanian branch in February 2023 and transferred to the German company in September 2024.
Java Software Engineer
Tremend Software Consulting
05.2020 - 04.2021
- Banking Project: End-to-end application to manage external banking and project activities including investment, policy and advisory work.
- Microservices architecture(around 90 services)
- Agile at scale.
- Java 8, Camel, Azure deployment, Spring Boot, MongoDB, Docker, TDD, Confluence, Jenkins, Git
Java Software Engineer
Cegeka Romania
04.2016 - 07.2018
- Microservices architecture, event driven, focused on high availability and transactional consitency
- Agile environment, multiple cross country scrum teams spread across 3 locations. DevOps practices
- Java 8, Reactive Java, Vert.x, Apache Ignite, MariaDb, Docker, Ansible, Kubernetes, Openshift, AWS deployment, Linux, IntelliJ IDEA, Jira, Confluence, Jenkins, Git
- Pure technical role, no business requirements
- Pair programming 80% of the time, oriented on clean and maintainable code
Team Lead, Java Developer, Business Analyst - Senior Software Development Advisor
Dell
11.2008 - 03.2016
- Roles: Developer, Technical lead, Team planning and coordination, Requirement analyst.
- Change requests evaluation, solutions and estimation.
- Change requests design and specification.
- Specification writing
- Maintenance support.
- Monolith, Java 1.7, jBPM, JPA 2.1, Hibernate, EJB 3.1, JMS, JAX-WS, Spring Batch, JSF 2.1, Maven Jboss EAP 6.2 SVN
Education
Master's Degree - Databases and Web Technologies
University of Bucharest
01.2010
Bachelor's degree - Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Bucharest
01.2008
Skills
Problem-solving
Timeline
Software Developer
SII Deutschland GmbH, Sii Group Romania
02.2023 - Current
Java Software Engineer
Tremend Software Consulting
05.2020 - 04.2021
Java Software Engineer
Cegeka Romania
04.2016 - 07.2018
Team Lead, Java Developer, Business Analyst - Senior Software Development Advisor
Dell
11.2008 - 03.2016
Bachelor's degree - Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Bucharest
Master's Degree - Databases and Web Technologies
University of Bucharest