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Liviu Nastasa

Engineering Leader | Software And Product Development

Summary

Senior leader with more than 20 years of experience in building complex integrated solutions and software products. Successfully managed distributed and global teams, focused on product and delivery excellence.


Broad engineering experience covering full Software Development Life Cycle, deep understanding of software product design with focus on accessibility, information architecture and user experience. Successfully supported transformation within organizations: transition from waterfall to Agile, from on-premise monolith to cloud based microservices, organizational digitalization. Built and managed large multifunctional teams (developers, architects, QA, DevOps, infrastructure) to deliver on business objectives, in B2B and B2C setups. Communication and influencing skills across all stakeholder groups, successfully bridging business vision and technical implementation. Extensive project management experience (PMP certified) with proven results in various domains: healthcare, cybersecurity, defense, insurance, finance.

Overview

23
23
years of professional experience
5
5
Certificates
2
2
Languages
1
1
year of post-secondary education

Work History

Head of Software Engineering

CWS Group
Bucharest
11.2023 - Current

Coordination of distributed software development teams, delivering value in large impact projects across organization.
Technology strategy complementing platform development on SAP, Salesforce, Dynamics 365.

New initiatives boosting innovation and efficient best practices adoption.

Chief Information Officer

Daruieste Viata/Give Life NGO
Bucharest
08.2022 - 07.2023

Provided IT strategy and coordination to digitalization effort for “Dăruiește Viață” involved in #NoiFacemUnSpital initiative building the first national children's hospital for cancer, severe illnesses and trauma with support from donations and sponsorships

Strategic support for consolidation and enhancement of www.daruiesteviata.ro platform

  • Process analysis and digital transformation roadmap
  • System integration strategy
  • Project/Program management
  • Vendor management

Director of Engineering & Site Leader

SolarWinds MSP / N-able
Bucharest
01.2020 - 10.2021

Coordinated engineering teams (50+ people) across multiple product lines and offices (RO, CZ, UK, PL) - MailAssure, Security integrations (RMM & N-central) - improving security and accelerating Agile practices adoption. Grow Bucharest office, in alignment with company development strategy.


Set budgets for engineering tasks, tailoring financial limitations to business goals and optimizing return on investment (ROI) for completed deliverables.


Achievements : Bucharest site has grown with 30%, number of projects/products developed increased from 3 to 10 and we successfully supported N-able spin-off, gracefully migrating SolarWinds employees to N-able projects.

CTO/Head of Engineering

BullGuard
Bucharest
08.2014 - 12.2019

Responsibilities : Coordination of the product development teams (60+ people), driving new technology adoption and 3rd party technology providers. Member of the executive management team, budget owner for product development, technology partners and infrastructure

Achievements :

  • Released 4 new major versions of the product line, added macOS support for AV,
  • added new VPN product and new Small Office product;
  • started migrating monolith backend to PaaS microservices (Microsoft Azure)
  • Top scores for Windows product with AV-Test, AV - Comparatives, VB100
  • Implemented automated testing framework - improved detection by 30% and decreased the wait time by 90%
  • Increased own IP contribution in the product, including several patents, fostered internal innovation by organizing 4 hackathons.

Director of Software Development

Romsys
Bucharest
08.2007 - 08.2014

Responsibilities : Lead the software development department (40 people), support for pre-sales and design of turn key solutions, budget owner (P&L).

Achievements : Implemented more than 10 projects for public and private sector clients [National Trade Register Office, BRD-GSG, ENEL, Unicredit Bank, Transgaz, Omniasig, Asirom] with €15m+revenue, created 3 new own software products generating more than €2m revenue, implemented new configuration management practices (application and server monitoring, SCM and continuous build tools) with effect on quality and release time cycle.

Project Manager

Siveco
Bucharest
04.2006 - 07.2007

Client: National Health Insurance House (NHIH) [$100m+ project]

Responsibilities: Technical Project Management, validation of System Architecture Enhancements, team coordination (100+ people),

Subcontractors management (4 subcontractors), negotiation with partner contractor (HP) and customer (NHIH)

Achievements: Product readiness for UAT, adoption of new requirements management and testing tools - Compuware OptimalTrace/QACenter, Atlassian Jira; improved build time with 60%.

Software Consultant

Romsys
Bucharest
09.2000 - 04.2006

Acting as technical lead, developer or architect for several projects including - Romanian Air Force in partnership with Lockheed Martin (air traffic data processing - ICAO/OLDI data processor) - Romsys received the Lockheed Martin Star Supplier Award, National Securities Commission (market surveillance and fraud detection system), Petrom (smart card software authentication module), National Institute of Pneumology “Marius Nasta” - web based centralized management system

Education

Machine Learning Specialisation - Machine Learning

Stanford University
10.2022 - 02.2023

Deep Learning Specialisation - Deep Learning

Coursera/DeepLearning.ai
02.2023 - 07.2023

Master of Science - Information Technology

Academy of Economic Studies
Bucharest
1996.01 - 2001.01

Skills

Team Leadershipundefined

Certification

Professional Scrum Master - PSM I

Interests

Running, Cycling, Gadgets, Photography

Work Availability

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Timeline

Head of Software Engineering

CWS Group
11.2023 - Current

Project Management Professional (PMP) - PMI

11-2023

Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900) - Microsoft

09-2023

Azure AI Fundamentals (AI-900) - Microsoft

09-2023

Deep Learning Specialisation - Deep Learning

Coursera/DeepLearning.ai
02.2023 - 07.2023

Machine Learning Specialisation - Machine Learning

Stanford University
10.2022 - 02.2023

Chief Information Officer

Daruieste Viata/Give Life NGO
08.2022 - 07.2023

Professional Scrum Master - PSM I

03-2022

Director of Engineering & Site Leader

SolarWinds MSP / N-able
01.2020 - 10.2021

Certified Trainer - COR

12-2014

CTO/Head of Engineering

BullGuard
08.2014 - 12.2019

Director of Software Development

Romsys
08.2007 - 08.2014

Project Manager

Siveco
04.2006 - 07.2007

Software Consultant

Romsys
09.2000 - 04.2006

Master of Science - Information Technology

Academy of Economic Studies
1996.01 - 2001.01
Liviu NastasaEngineering Leader | Software And Product Development