We aim to provide the inspiration, knowledge and perspectives needed to empower women be successful in the world’s most important sector.
Event Agenda
18.00 – 18.10 – WELCOMING
18.10 – 19.15 – BLOOMBERG’S PANEL – 4 PEOPLE, 4 DIFFERENT ROUTES INTO SOFTWARE ENGINEERING | Speakers Cristina MANOLESCU, Marius CIUBOTARIU, Roxana STIUCA, Cristian CHIRAC
19.15 – 19.30 – EVENT TAKE AWAY | Q&A, Conclusions
We aim to provide the inspiration, knowledge and perspectives needed to empower women be successful in the world’s most important sector.
Bringing you expert-led workshops, actionable and motivational insights this powerful event will help you stay ahead of the game, be inspired and boost your career.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Valentina MANEA | software engineer
Bio: Valentina has been a software engineer at Bloomberg LP since 2016. She has worked on distributed systems that provide the foundation for applications running on Bloomberg Professional Service. She is currently working on development tools for all the engineers at Bloomberg. Additionally, Valentina has a background in operating systems, having previously contributed to the Linux Kernel.
Alexandra Teodora PADURARU | software engineer
Bio: Growing up in Romania, Alexandra has always been a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual. She graduated as Valedictorian from high-school and decided to follow her passion for technology by pursuing a Computer Science degree at the University of Birmingham. She graduated with a First Class Honours Degree and ranked among the top 5 graduates in the Class of 2019. After graduation, Alexandra was eager to put into practice the skills she learned throughout her studies and was looking for new ways of challenging herself. She therefore joined Bloomberg in September 2019 and since then she has been working as a Software Engineer in the Bloomberg Buyside Enterprise Solution. Upon joining the team, she took responsibility of one of the core features of the product that Portfolio Managers rely upon daily in their decision making process. In addition, she volunteers through Bloomberg Philanthropies and gets involved in Diversity and Inclusion initiatives.
Olga MATOULA | software engineer
Bio: Olga Matoula joined Bloomberg in 2017 as a full-stack software engineer creating a specialised notepad application for the Bloomberg Professional Terminal. Before that, she was a premier !eld engineer and a technical solutions professional at Microsoft. From 2014- 2016, she co-founded and ran Code It Like a Girl, an award-winning social enterprise where she taught women and children in Greece how to code. Olga is a Diversity and Inclusion advocate and has participated in panel discussions about inclusivity in tech. Nowadays, she gets involved in tech community events in London and explores a dubious talent in swing dancing.
Corina SARARU | head of test engineering software development
Bio: Former volunteer in The Romanian Maltese Relief Service and participant at one of the GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) camps organized by Peace Corps in Romania, Corina Sararu graduated, within the Faculty of Computer Science at University of Pitesti, the bachelor, master and PhD programs.
Since 2007, she got involved in teaching and research in the machine learning !eld, for 5 years. For another 6 years, she was a software developer in automotive industry. Now she is an enthusiastic team leader and is responsible for a team that makes software for testing car parts. Her job motivates her because it is the kind of work that keeps people safe. She is passionate about electric cars and autonomous devices. This is one of the reasons for which she studies machine learning models in her spare time and is always interested to talk about them.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Magda MIU | squad lead developer & co-organizer Women TechMakers
Bio: Magda have extensive experience continuously improving processes and products by meeting the e”ciency and reliability criteria and exceeding them. Proven track of building, training and leading motivated and successful engineering teams and managing complex projects by using Agile development methodologies. Passionate about technology, she is one of the promoters of digital communities in di#erent towns of Romania, supporting other technical professionals to constantly improve their knowledge. Also, since February 2019 she became an Android Google Developer Expert.
Speakers
Liviu Serban is a Software Engineer @ Google Romania. His education background is computer science, with a Bachelor of Science from the University of Bucharest. He started his career as a malware researcher @ Avira, and then moved to work mainly as a Java developer with Cloud Technologies and using machine learning. In 2018, he joined Fitbit, as a software developer where he has worked on several areas from developing microservices to developer productivity. Since then Fitbit was acquired by Google. Liviu is passionate about computer science and machine learning and allocates large amount of personal time to study and research
Calin Avasilcai is a Software Engineer passionate about designing distributed systems. Former Java Developer and Technical Team Lead with 14 years’ experience in backend and full-stack web development, he joined Crowdstrike in 2021 in order to have the opportunity to design large scale systems using Go. In his free time he enjoys traveling, spending time with friends and reading.
Director of Engineering at Plain Concepts Romania, Frontend open source contributor, Google Developer Expert on Web Technologies, and also, a small NGO owner in the form of helpdev.org
George has 17 years of experience in the field. Backend engineer in his soul, he is passionate about large scale distributed systems and programming in general. Has a strong background delivering globally distributed solutions using Microsoft technologies (C# and the Azure cloud) but lately, after joining Crowdstrike, he changed entirely the technology stack (Golang, Kafka, Cassandra, ES). George likes to play chess, enjoys climbing and running.
Fast learner interested in working on exciting projects and/or startups. Skilled in Kotlin, Python, Node.js, Android and Linux enthusiast. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor's degree focused in Computer Science from Technical University of Cluj Napoca.
I'm the Founder/CEO of Epix Mobile. Our mission is to build epic mobile apps, taking care of the technical side while our clients focus on building the business. I'm a tech enthusiast with entrepreneurial spirit. My ambition is to learn from both until I'm able to implement a meaningful change in people's life. Hobbies include playing basketball and discovering people's approach to meaning of life.
My main interest areas are Business Intelligence and Data Science, including information and knowledge extraction from the structured or unstructured data and applying it to bring business value, developing elegant and intelligent visualizations which tell unseen stories from the data and developing complex data analysis models which are assisting for better business decisions.
Aiming to discover new things and learn from different people. Planning to create new solutions that helps people's life to be easier and safer.
I’m a generalist – navigating uncertainty and complexity to improve decision-making at scale with data and domain-driven software. My work at Adore Me involves a weird mix of AI product management, decision science and systems’ design.
Aleksandr is an experienced specialist in enterprise development and in IT for 15+ years. Recently, he specialized mainly in Java and microservice architecture, but now his main interest is Flutter. Aleksandr is a Flutter enthusiast and Head of Flutter Discipline in EPAM, of podcasts Mobile People Talks and Flutter Dev Podcast. He is also GDE (Google Developer Expert) in Flutter and Dart.
Mihăiță Țintă is an Architect at ING Hubs Romania; he is currently focused on designing cloud native applications. Before this, he was a team lead who delivered numerous mobile and web applications along the way. He is passionate about security, reliability, scalability and enjoys writing on his personal blog on Medium. He is an avid learner, constantly on the lookout for the latest developments in the industry.
Dan Tudose is a researcher at Google Romania. He has a strong academic background, lecturing embedded systems courses at University Politehnica Bucharest. At Google, he is also managing the Academic Program for Romania. He is a driven entrepreneur, having founded several start-ups, the last of which was acquired by Fitbit, which is now part of Google. He is passionate about building scalable and energy-efficient IoT solutions and wearables.
Passionate computer scientist. Java Champion and Google Developer Expert for Cloud. Public speaker. Community builder.
Passionate Android Developer that started his adventure around 4 years ago. His interest in best practices, clean and readable code and the strive for doing things right have helped him stay afloat and thrive in this tumultuous ecosystem that is Android. His latest interests revolve around Jetpack Compose, Kotlin coroutines and app performance. He's a firm believer that an app crashing isn’t a problem (change his mind).
Monica is a seasoned Senior Android Engineer with over five years of experience in perfecting Android apps using Java and Kotlin. She balances her technical expertise with a strong commitment to promoting diversity in the Tech Industry and advancing innovation and collaboration among Engineers.
In 14 years of experience in mobile development I had the opportunity to design, develop and deliver applications in areas like gaming, services, fashion, education, security, and banking. Each decision I took and each line of code I wrote in any of these apps it was like I planted a new flower in my own garden. Currently I’m expanding my knowledge in team management, organizational growth, and performance improvement.
He’s been in software development for over 20 years, bringing extensive programming experience. His guiding principle is that achieving functionality is just one aspect of the process; equally vital is crafting solutions that are elegant, straightforward, and adaptable for the future. In essence, he believes that the complete development experience encompasses not only making things work but also ensuring they remain simple, clean and scalable.
Alex Bordei is a full-stack developer with a decade of experience in creating custom solutions for web, API, and mobile development. His expertise and dedication have earned him recognition as a respected authority within the technology industry. He is currently the organizer of the Flutter Bucharest Meetup and was previously involved in organizing the Flutter Romania Meetup. Alex’s enthusiasm for technology extends to the Internet of Things (IoT), where he explores new opportunities for innovation and connectivity.
With fifteen years of expertise in blue ocean strategy, a remarkable career as a lecturer, and extensive experience in both technology and academia, he offers a uniquely comprehensive perspective on the Flutter debate. His time in the United States' tech hotbed, combined with his experience in shaping minds in academia and fostering growth among thousands of entrepreneurs and executives, has endowed him with a deep understanding of market creation and innovation.
Victor has been an Engineering Manager at Google since 2019, leading a team of mobile and cloud engineers working on the Fitbit mobile apps. Previously, he led a development studio doing mobile and cloud development for startups or enterprise clients around the world. His technical skills include Android, Cloud Development, Java, Spring and others.
Jasper is a seasoned cloud architect, international speaker, and enthusiastic traveller. With over a decade of deep-rooted experience in the Google platform, he have guided clients through the complex terrain of technology transitions, making him a trusted navigator in the cloud computing space.
Elaine is a Senior Staff Engineer at SFEIR where she works on projects including mobile technologies since 2013. She has worked on several projects in native Android/iOS and Flutter. She’s a GDE for the Google Assistant, Flutter and Dart
An experienced product-centric software engineer with a passion for learning and sharing knowledge. As a Google Developer Expert for Flutter & Dart technologies, I excel at building cross-platform apps with Flutter, and I love teaching others what I know. In my free time, I enjoy creating educational content, or just being outside and playing disc golf.
Native developer with 11 years of hands-on experience in Telecom (5y), Fintech (2y) & Aerospace (4y), designing frameworks and complex solutions for real-time systems. Experienced in leading teams, in both enterprise and startup ecosystems.
Márton is a Google Developer Expert(GDE) On Cloud, a Champion in the Cloud Innovators program, top user on Stackoverflow with 205K reputation, software developer, international speaker & passionate about mountain hiking.
A Machine Learning Engineer in the field of Computer Vision. His main area of focus is in Generative Modeling and Latent Variable Methods. He has also been an AI Scholar at Pi School, Rome, also participate in conducting workshops and technical talks around the field of Machine Learning to teach others and in return learn from them. Also a GDE in Machine Learning.
When mentioning Flutter and Dart, most people think about mobile apps. However, Flutter and Dart can also help with building apps for multiple platforms such as desktop and web apps.
Ex-Android developer with ten years of software development experience. I’ve been working on Pago for the last 6 years, from being the only Android developer to having a fantastic team of 5 Android & 5 iOS developers. Currently, I am scaling up the team as an engineering manager, improving our code, processes, and culture.
Having hands on experience on mobile, Web and API pentesting on various industries from insurance, payments and banks, his interest is to share the practical knowledge by speaking at various international conferences and other tech events.