IT Ops Stage

Darko Meszaros is a Specialist Solutions Architect @ AWS. As a Specialist SA within AWS, he helps shape the strategy and enable the broad use of AWS Management Tools and The AWS Marketplace, by directly working with customers. Darko owns the technical engagement and defining implementation architectures, developing deep expertise in the AWS Management Tools and DevOps technologies.

Darko worked his way up from AWS Premium Support, and 11+ years of experience in various spheres of IT – from Government Offices to large Telcos – always trying to automate things. He comes from Subotica, Serbia.

MinhTri Tonnu is the VP Engineering Operations at UiPath, the leading provider of Robotic Process Automation technology. MinhTri has experience delivering and building large scale enterprise applications at Microsoft prior to joining UiPath.

For 3 years with WAGO in the automation department, developing complex solutions for customers to help them in the transition to an IoT driven world.

Tech enthusiast, always wanting to try out the newest and most advanced technologies that can make life and business easier.

Being obsessed with customer experience Jaroslav accepted a new challenge to establish a real customer-centric approach at Revolgy. His past experience includes working closely with local technology communities across different countries and cultures and tightening the relationship of companies he worked for, with these communities. He has been their ambassador and preached about their technologies at conferences, meetups, and seminars. He also worked as a leader of small teams of developers, technical writer, evangelist, and a product owner.

Stepan has started working on with implementation & integration of computing and virtualization platforms right after finishing high school. He gained proficiency in it shortly and soon became a respected consultant. He then got to work on cloud projects – initially as an Ops specialist. Nowadays he’s focused more on architecture building and implementation of cloud solutions. Stepan is passionate about automation and a big enthusiast of DevOps culture who loves to cooperate closely with developers.

Mircea Prelipceanu is Head of International Sales at CAS Software AG – the leading German supplier of CRM software for small and medium-sized enterprises. More than 400,000 people in over 25,000 companies enjoy the benefits of CAS CRM: a powerful standard solution, flexible to meet the customer’s needs, great ergonomics, proven and awarded in practice and excellent value for money.

Born and raised in Romania with extensive working experience in different countries throughout Europe, Mircea Prelipceanu has been working for CAS Software AG for more than 10 years. During this time he established a worldwide partner channel network which delivers an excellent service for the customer. Furthermore he advises companies on the usage of CRM solutions and holds regular lectures on Sales, Customer Relationship Management and CRM implementation best practice.

Rolf joined Tradeshift at the very beginning as an engineer/code monkey. He has experienced the wild adventure going from 5 employees in a garage to +950 employees on a global scale. Today, he works at a strategic level with making product and engineering deliver successfully to the customers of Tradeshift. Rolf is based in San Francisco with his wife and two kids.

My name is Alexandru Petrescu, I work as “R&D” in EXE Software, I am a university assistant, Technical Lead at MIC UPB and Country Lead MSP Romania. I am passionate about technology, especially in AI and I am proud of it, which has led to achievements such as an article published in 2019 IEEE ICCP or the certification of “Microsoft Certified: Azure AI Engineer Associate”

Mihnea is an e-Government enthusiast having spent recent years in top management positions for Romanian IT businesses. He is now Deputy CEO for Trencadis Corp, an organic growing Romanian integrator managing complex IT systems, accessed by more than 100.000 citizens daily. Mihnea joined Trencadis in May 2017 having previously shown his expertise in implementing many critical systems as Project and Program Manager from 2003 to 2017 in e-Government, Retail, Automotive and Telco IT sectors.

Mihnea Mihailescu began his project management career holding local and regional positions in Softwin and IBM, implementing projects in various countries, such as Serbia, Bulgaria, The Netherlands and UK. He earned a degree in Economics and likes to ski and travel in the rural and historic sites of Romania.

Passionate about Artificial Intelligence, Language Processing, and business as well, Dan has over 12 years of experience running large software development teams and building new enterprise products. Having designed and deployed enterprise solutions in multiple industries, and a keen eye for User Experience, Dan has taken the opportunity to infuse AI, Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Understanding (NLP/NLU) components into the only no-code, AI-powered, enterprise chatbot authoring platform in Romania – Druid.

During his 16 years’ experience in IT, Ionut Codreanu had several roles that combine his strong technical background with his passion for people development and delivering high quality products.

Ionut is in charge of defining the vision, overseeing the development stages, evaluating the product, anticipating client’s needs and acting as a connector for the stakeholders, in the complex process of delivering a quality product in a highly competitive environment.

As a Producer for one of the most important brands in the group, Ionut is leading creative teams in a fast changing and constantly challenging environment, touching areas like Machine Learning, Automation and Cloud gaming.

He believes that having a consumer-oriented and product owner mindset is the way to achieve excellence.

With more than 15 years’ experience in banking in several roles, from IT to Operations, Cristian is leading now the Robotics Process Automation initiative in ING Bank Romania.

As RPA Lead, Cristian is responsible for robotics implementation in ING Bank Romania, creating awareness and bringing value to automation. He and his team are spotting automation opportunities within the organization and delivering robots to perform the repetitive and “no brainer” tasks faster and better.

Cristian has started the RPA Project in 2018 from scratch, the initiative being now in a scale-up phase.
Described as a DO-er, he has transformed an idea on a paper to a strategic project for organizational efficiency.

Being passionate about technology, innovation and internet of things, he was involved in innovative projects as mobile payments, instant issuing or cards contactless implementation.

With over 20 years of experience in various software development positions, from programmer to architect, Marian Simpetru is currently Managing Partner at eSolutions, where he is also involved in developing custom software solutions and architectures.

In the last four years he has been actively working on conceiving big-data platform architectures and managing custom projects which he oversees from kick-off to delivery.

· Extensive experience in the IT industry
· Founded eSolutions in 2001
· More than 15 years of IT management experience
· Occasional speaker at local and international tech events on Open Source technologies, Java and Big Data

Iulian Tanasa is the general manager of QBS Retail&Logistics, one of SoftOne’s main partners in Romania.

With approximatively 20 years of experience in the software industry, both in sales and product development, Iulian acquired a unique blend of technical and project management skills. His experience enables the QBS team to deliver cost-effective and scalable software solutions.
With a significant amount of custom projects successfully delivered, the company has developed vertical solutions, tailored to each client’s business processes.

Ovidiu Diaconescu is an experienced technologist and tech founder with a strong background in information technology, privacy, security and the gaming industry.

He started as a freelancer by founding, architecting and lead developing a fund-raising platform used in the United States, Canada, UK and Israel. He, later on, worked in the gaming industry, leading the development of risk management platforms, Cloud technologies, products, QA, operations and business.

He is currently the CRM Tech Team Leader at Ubisoft, working with one of the top-ranking leading technology in Campaign Management.

With extensive expertise in microelectronics and programming, he designs and implements creative and successful IOT applications.

Alexandra Lucescu is the Commercial Director of SoftOne Romania, the development hub of one of the most important providers of ERP software, CRM and Web & Mobile applications in Southeastern Europe.

With over 10 years’ experience in communication, marketing and sales, especially in the IT software industry, Alexandra has been identifying new commercial opportunities and managing the marketing efforts of the company for more than 2 years. Her role within the company is to constantly provide strategic advice to upper management and offer Romanian entrepreneurs a revolutionary perspective regarding the automation of business processes.

Because I love working with people and because I consider that technology is a step towards evolution, I decided to make my career as an IT consultant. 12 years have passed since then and still, my work is a pleasure.

For the past 20+ years, I’ve been involved in various digital fields. Always looking for improving own skills on development methodologies and development design patterns, with a focus on building well-structured applications for various environments.

Like every IT guy almost as old as the Internet, my early years of programming started by playing games on HC 85 Ice Felix, followed by programming my own in QBasic and C.

In the continuous search for new technologies, I help developers to build and deliver stable, reliable and secure applications. All of these, of course in an agile ecosystem (or methodology :D)

Intersecting software with hardware for about 5 years I also design big data infrastructures and prepare them for high availability telemetry ingestion, play with time series dbases like InfluxDB or Prometheus and do advanced geospatial analysis in python or JS, for web.