Denis-Andrei Pintea
Cluj-Napoca
Summary
Associate Data Engineer with 4 years of experience in developing and operating data integration solutions, ETL/ELT pipelines, and Data Warehouse platforms based on Amazon Redshift in enterprise environments, primarily on AWS. Strong experience with high-volume data systems, real-time streaming (Kafka), dimensional data modeling, and exposing data through APIs and data-driven services. Accustomed to working in Scrum teams, taking end-to-end ownership from design to production, including on-call support.
Overview
4
4
years of professional experience
Work history
Associate data engineer
Betfair Romania Development
Cluj-Napoca
2023.05 - Current
- Development and operation of data integration solutions, ETL/ELT pipelines, and Data Warehouse platforms using Amazon Redshift
- Processing high volumes of data from OLTP systems with high ingestion rates (Kafka)
- Design and implementation of scalable data pipelines using AWS Glue and Apache Airflow
- Dimensional data modeling to optimize query performance and analytical workloads
- Development of data-driven services exposed through Flask and FastAPI (internal APIs)
- Working with relational and NoSQL databases: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Redshift
- Monitoring, optimization, and troubleshooting of data pipelines, databases, and microservices using Grafana and AWS CloudWatch
- Application containerization and deployment using Docker and Kubernetes
- Integration with Amazon SageMaker for Machine Learning use cases
- CI/CD implementation using Jenkins and GitLab
- Active participation in on-call rotation, ensuring production environment stability
- Close collaboration with Data Science teams and non-technical stakeholders and architecture
- Drove end-to-end delivery of data engineering projects, contributing to solution design and data architecture, including technology choices, pipeline structure, and integration patterns
- Writing technical documentation, performing code reviews, and mentoring new joiners
Internship data engineer
Betfair Romania Development
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj
2022.10 - 2023.05
Data Engineering Bootcamp
Betfair Romania Development
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj
2022.07 - 2022.08
Education
Computer Science
Technical University of Cluj‑Napoca
/2021 - /2025
Mathematics and Computer Science
National College "Ioan Slavici"
Satu Mare /2017 - /2021
Skills
Development skills:
-SQL
-Python
-Java
-C/C
-VHDL
-Assembly
__________
Development methodologies:
-Scrum
-Agile
__________
Other skills:
-Team Work
-Organization
-Problem Solving
-Communication
-Analytical Skills
-Time Management
-Multitasking
-Attention to Details
-Creativity
Languages
Romanian
Native
English
Upper intermediate
Affiliations
- Fitness
- Winter Sports
Timeline
Associate data engineer
Betfair Romania Development
2023.05 - Current
Internship data engineer
Betfair Romania Development
2022.10 - 2023.05
Data Engineering Bootcamp
Betfair Romania Development
2022.07 - 2022.08
Computer Science
Technical University of Cluj‑Napoca
/2021 - /2025
Mathematics and Computer Science
National College "Ioan Slavici"
/2017 - /2021