Hello! I'm Ovidiu Istrate, a dedicated and results-driven software engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience in building, optimizing, and scaling web applications. I love crafting efficient, user-centric software that drives business growth and delivers tangible value. Over the years I have honed my full-stack skills across front-end and back-end tech stacks, tackled complex data challenges, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to ship reliable solutions. I'm passionate about continuous learning, mentoring teammates, and delivering high-quality software with a pragmatic, customer-focused mindset.

Ovidiu Istrate

Hello! I'm Ovidiu Istrate, a dedicated and results-driven software engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience in building, optimizing, and scaling web applications. I love crafting efficient, user-centric software that drives business growth and delivers tangible value. Over the years I have honed my full-stack skills across front-end and back-end tech stacks, tackled complex data challenges, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to ship reliable solutions. I'm passionate about continuous learning, mentoring teammates, and delivering high-quality software with a pragmatic, customer-focused mindset.

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Hello! I’m Ovidiu Istrate, a dedicated and results-driven software engineer with nearly a decade of hands-on experience in building, optimizing, and scaling web applications. I love crafting efficient, user-centric software that drives business growth and delivers tangible value.

Over the years I have honed my full-stack skills across front-end and back-end tech stacks, tackled complex data challenges, and collaborated with cross-functional teams to ship reliable solutions. I’m passionate about continuous learning, mentoring teammates, and delivering high-quality software with a pragmatic, customer-focused mindset.

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Language

English
Fluent
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior Full Stack Engineer at Mosaic Tech
October 1, 2024 - October 2, 2025
Worked on various features and optimizations for the Mosaic Web App, a SaaS responsible for in-house financial data from headcount planning, income statements to balance sheet reporting and forecasting. Implemented and optimized integrations with 3rd party importers (FlatFile, Use Csv) across front-end and back-end, resolving customer issues rapidly through full-cycle development (implementation, testing, deployment) and providing clarifications. Improved the platform's data manipulation using AG-Grid and AM-Charts; handled edge cases and delivered valuable information for end users.
Senior Full Stack Consultant at Chassi
September 1, 2020 - September 29, 2023
Analyzed business processes for ERP systems (Netsuite, SAP) as a SaaS-focused consultant. Gathered event-based ERP data, defined data dimensions and perspectives to interpret large data chunks, identified bottlenecks, and proposed scalable solutions that improved data workflows and decision support.
Senior Full Stack Software Engineer at TopTal
April 1, 2019 - Present
As a SaaS freelance senior full stack engineer, analyzed and built end-to-end solutions for startups, focusing on optimizing data flows, API integrations, and delivering robust front-end and back-end implementations that meet client requirements and timelines.
Software Engineer at Siemens
January 31, 2018 - October 2, 2025
Responsible for backend-oriented development within a distributed platform hosted on in-house servers, including multiple APIs and data processing for energy consumption analytics. Focused on building reliable services, REST-style interfaces, and data integration pipelines.
Junior .NET Developer at Luminos Labs
July 1, 2017 - October 2, 2025
Outsourced software engineer on multiple projects across banking, finance, and internal tooling; contributed to architectural and core logic problems, enabling scalable data processing and feature delivery.
Intern at Cluj-Napoca
July 31, 2014 - October 2, 2025
Learned .NET ecosystem, built POCs using ASP.NET MVC, SPA patterns with AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API; practiced full-stack development and collaboration with teammates.
Freelance Front-End Developer at Anonymous Partner
May 31, 2017 - October 2, 2025
Freelance work building a front-end user interface in Vue.js on a small project owned by a friend of a friend; explored modern front-end tooling and patterns.
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Mosaic Tech
October 1, 2024 - October 2, 2025
Worked on various features and optimizations for the Mosaic Web App, a SaaS responsible for in-house financial data from headcount planning, income statements to balance sheet reporting and forecasting. Implemented and optimized customized financial imports & exports from/to multiple sources across Front-End and Back-End. Implemented and optimized existing integrations with 3rd party importers such as FlatFile and UseCSV, quickly resolving customer complaints via rapid-response: implementation, testing, deployment, and clarification. Improved platform's data manipulation functionality using AG-Grid and AM-Charts best practices to deliver a great customer experience, handling edge cases and providing valuable information for end users. Fully responsible for the Web Client (Angular), mainly responsible for the back-end API serving multiple clients, DB management, schema and aggregating relevant data for users to consume, configuration management of required services in AWS for deployment
Software Engineer at S Medix
June 28, 2017 - January 16, 2018
Duties included backend and infrastructure work for health-care and farm industry apps, addressing architectural and core logic problems, and contributing to robust software delivery.
Junior .Net Developer at Luminos Labs
July 1, 2017 - October 2, 2025
Outsourcing software engineer on multiple projects across domains such as banking, finance, customer relationship management, and internal tools for employee time and performance evaluation.
Intern at Luminos Labs
July 1, 2014 - October 2, 2025
Learning the .NET ecosystem, building PoCs using ASP.NET MVC, SPA with AngularJS and ASP.NET Web API; mentored by teammates and contributing to both frontend and backend efforts.

Education

Master's Degree at Babes-Bolyai University
October 1, 2015 - June 5, 2017
Distributed Systems - Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Bachelor's Degree at Babes-Bolyai University
October 1, 2012 - June 17, 2015
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
High School at Andrei Muresanu National College
September 15, 2009 - June 10, 2012

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Gaming, Professional Services, Computers & Electronics, Education