Teodora Farcas
Stuttgart, Germany
Summary
Solutions Engineer with strong experience owning complex, time-bound customer initiatives from discovery through conversion. Currently at Confluent, leading enterprise PoCs, architecture reviews, and onboarding journeys across pre- and post-sales. Capable of translating ambiguous customer problems into clear technical initiatives, aligning stakeholders, mitigating risk, and driving outcomes that convert into long-term contracts.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Solutions Engineer
Confluent
07.2022 - Current
- Own technical relationships for Enterprise customers across the CEMEA region, acting as a trusted advisor throughout the full customer lifecycle.
- Operate across both pre-sales and post-sales, including technical discovery, solution design, demos, proof-of-concepts, onboarding, architecture reviews, and production guidance.
- Support a large, dynamic book of business simultaneously demonstrating strong prioritization, ownership, and accountability.
- Design and validate scalable, event-driven architectures using Apache Kafka and the Confluent portfolio, tailored to customer-specific business and technical constraints.
- Lead customer-facing technical workshops and presentations, adapting communication style to developers, architects, and senior stakeholders.
- Build and maintain long-term customer relationships, serving as a consistent technical point of contact beyond initial deal close.
- Coordinate closely with Product Management and Engineering by filing field feedback, tracking feature requests, and representing real customer needs.
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rebeldot
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
01.2022 - 06.2022
- Designed and maintained automated end‑to‑end tests using JavaScript, Protractor, and Cucumber.
- Worked with cloud‑based systems on AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, Cognito, CodeBuild).
- Collaborated closely with developers and product owners to ensure product quality and fast feedback loops.
Junior Quality Assurance Engineer
3pillar Global
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
07.2020 - 12.2021
- Built automated test suites using Groovy, JavaScript, Protractor, and Cucumber.
- Worked in agile, distributed teams using Jira, Git, Jenkins, and Confluence.
- Gained early exposure to large‑scale, cloud‑hosted applications and CI/CD pipelines.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Technical University of Cluj‑Napoca
Cluj-Napoca06-2021
Skills
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Customer engagement
- Streaming architecture
- Apache Kafka expertise
- Cloud computing solutions
- Solution design
- Technical presentations
- Troubleshooting & Optimization
Languages
English
Full Professional
German
Professional
Romanian
Native/ Bilingual
Timeline
Solutions Engineer
Confluent
07.2022 - Current
Quality Assurance Engineer
Rebeldot
01.2022 - 06.2022
Junior Quality Assurance Engineer
3pillar Global
07.2020 - 12.2021
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science
Technical University of Cluj‑Napoca