VLAD IACOB

• Directly manage of team of 5 engineers: Focused on impact, ownership, career growth, and general well being.
• Reviewed project goals and objectives on monthly basis with product and design teams.
• Directly manage of team of 5 software developers: Focused on impact, ownership, career growth, and general well being.
• Hired 6 new engineers over the span of several months
• Responsible for design and architecture of new systems, constantly working on improving developer productivity and infrastructure to support our needs

• Worked on migrating infrastructure from Heroku to AWS
• Implemented hiring practices and developed culture for a brand new engineering team
• Had several engineers directly report to me
• Lead technical vision, revisit legacy systems and improve general process
• Combine multiple legacy systems into a solid standalone foundation

Technologies: AWS Cloud, Heroku, Java w/ Spring, NodeJS w/ TS, Ruby on Rails and Postges

• I am primarily responsible for building out the backend for Nike Athlete Studio, the platform used by Nike global brand marketing and professional contract athletes
• I am also currently managing the Seattle Engineering Team, which is a total of 6 engineers, working full stack
• I handle developing career growth and goals, strategizing business ideas across our pillar of Global Technology, and making sure OKRs are met
• Nike Athlete Studio has been deployed and used in 50 countries - Implemented architected the backend systems powering Nike Athlete Studio
• Technologies: AWS, Typescript, Terraform, Postgres

• Co-founded by Seattle Seahawks QB Russell Wilson, TraceMe is a Seattle-based technology company dedicated to connecting athletes/celebrities/influencers with their super fans through new social media platforms
• In late 2018, TraceMe pivoted to Tally, a mobile-first web platform that powers immersive, free-to-play, real-time prediction experiences for partners of all types, including sports teams, leagues, broadcasters, and brands
• I was responsible for building out backend systems for different products, helping drive product decisions, help drive engineering growth with a passion for building the best product for our customers
• Technologies: AWS, GCP, Typescript , Postgres

• I was a tech lead on variety of projects, working primarily on backend services for Yammer
• Tech Lead on Microsoft Modern Group Provisioning For Yammer
• Released and delivered strategies for group provisioning for Yammer
• Tech Lead on Sustainable Engineering For Platform / Files & Notification Domain
• Redesign and improved our Support/Engineering process, variety of pushing toward agile principals, aligning our bug system to have an easier and faster resolution time
• Streamlined new processes around fixing customer issues and helped reduced a long list of complicated platform bugs
• Mentoring new employees / current employees in best coding and testing practices
• Helped cut down selenium test framework and work more on integration / unit testing throughout each domain
• Fighting fires daily to make sure engineering productivity wasn't impacted based on environmental issues
• Tech lead for Redesigning our files ecosystem to align with Microsoft

• Worked on a distributed, cross-platform data protection software implemented in C/C++
• Worked on a variety of feature implemenations, bugs/escalations, support training, and mainted our product website before it was fully intergrated with the Barracuda main site
• I also worked on documentation with tech writers, helped support our update structure, and implement new release process and intergration with Jenkins
• Examples of developed features: - Created a CIFS/SMB file share connection agent to backup/restore anything in connected shares -
• Export/Import Job properties to XML - Implemented a new SOAP-based VMware backup agent and VMWare Backup/Restore library - Creating Virtual Disk Devices during Disaster Recovery - Restoring from Virtual Library Devices during D.R
• Helped develop and release brand new product for archival of existing Barracuda product

• Main project included creating manufacturing specification tests for variety of Barracuda products
• When adding new hardware, we need to stress test each product to make sure it can achieve desired runtimes
• I created a series of executable tests for QA/Test engineer to run when stress testing Barracuda product line
• Most scripts were written in Perl and Bash.