Andrei Popovici

My story starts long before any job. I first met programming in fifth grade, at my school's informatics club, four years of QBASIC that quietly turned curiosity into a habit. By high school it had a public side: one of my first real applications, written in Visual Basic, was a small tool that calculated the cost of a dial-up internet session. I wrote to a Romanian computer magazine about it, and they ran a write-up and shipped the app on the cover CD of that month's issue. At the time I didn't think much of it. Only later did I realise what a milestone that was for a high-schooler: building something genuinely useful and putting it out into the world.

My professional career began in 2008, close to the metal. I spent six years at Comodo on Windows systems and cryptography: implementing encryption inside a disk-filter driver, writing a boot-loader recovery tool for critical encryption failures, designing the GUI-to-driver communication API, and building a plugin architecture and a MySQL data layer for metrics. Those years built a deep instinct for how software really behaves when the abstractions fall away.

From there I moved into systems where reliability is non-negotiable. As Technical Lead and Software Architect at Continental, I owned the design, risk analysis, and delivery of a service that moved data between hardware and software across the vehicle's CAN network, one piece of a large automotive infotainment platform. I then carried that low-level, cross-platform craft into media and desktop: middleware and playback stability at TiVo, and modern C++17 and Swift desktop applications for Cisco, alongside my first step into people leadership as a line manager and Scrum Master. In parallel I founded the C++ community and internship programme at Endava Iași, because growing engineers is part of the job.

Around 2022 I made a deliberate pivot into modern cloud-native backend engineering, and all that breadth turned out to be a superpower. Through Endava I rotated across demanding domains: authentication and fintech flows at OneBanx, insurance data aggregation at QBE, decomposing a monolith into NestJS microservices for the London Stock Exchange Group, and contributing directly to the AWS SDK for JavaScript as part of the DynamoDB peer group. I later led a Qualified Electronic Signature integration at BearingPoint, owning it end-to-end.

Today I work as a backend consultant at Tranzy.ai, designing services for a next-generation urban mobility platform, with AI-augmented development as a core part of my workflow, using Claude for architecture reasoning, code generation, and review while holding a high quality bar. The throughline of my whole career stays the same: depth from the kernel to the cloud, a habit of owning problems end-to-end, and a genuine pull toward the next hard technical challenge.