I'm an AI/ML engineer with hands-on research experience in computer vision, generative models, and NLP, grounded by production software development in a regulated enterprise environment. I'm pursuing a master's degree in AI for Connected Industries and have a track record spanning model design, training, and deployment. I seek roles where research and engineering intersect.

Dragos Stefan Vacarasu

I'm an AI/ML engineer with hands-on research experience in computer vision, generative models, and NLP, grounded by production software development in a regulated enterprise environment. I'm pursuing a master's degree in AI for Connected Industries and have a track record spanning model design, training, and deployment. I seek roles where research and engineering intersect.

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I’m an AI/ML engineer with hands-on research experience in computer vision, generative models, and NLP, grounded by production software development in a regulated enterprise environment.

I’m pursuing a master’s degree in AI for Connected Industries and have a track record spanning model design, training, and deployment. I seek roles where research and engineering intersect.

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Language

Javanese
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Work Experience

Junior Software Developer at 3Pillar Global
March 1, 2025 - Present
Designed and developed an automation for a balance-holding process, eliminating manual intervention and resolving recurring data inconsistencies. Integrated PingOne threat-protection into the authentication layer, reducing unauthorized-access risk across all user flows. Automated environment provisioning via Ansible on AWS EC2, cutting manual deployment steps. Authored integration tests for AWS S3 file-upload workflows, increasing release confidence. Diagnosed and resolved a race condition across multiple pages, eliminating a recurring production incident.
Apprentice Software Developer at 3Pillar Global
July 1, 2024 - March 31, 2025
Delivered business features in a Java/Spring + Oracle DBMS + JSF enterprise application where data integrity and security compliance were critical. Refactored validation logic to batch database calls, improving execution speed by ~60% on business workflows. Remediated XSS vulnerabilities identified in a security audit, hardening the application against injection attacks.
Junior Software Developer at 3Pillar Global (banking & finance client)
March 1, 2025 - Present
Designed and developed an automation for a balance holding process, eliminating manual intervention and resolving recurring data inconsistencies; Integrated PingOne threat-protection into the authentication layer, reducing unauthorised-access risk across all user flows; Diagnosed and resolved a race condition occuring on multiple pages, eliminating a recurring production incident; Authored integration tests for AWS S3 file-upload workflows and managed environments on AWS EC2 via Ansible.
Apprentice Software Developer at 3Pillar Global (banking & finance client)
July 1, 2024 - March 1, 2025
Delivered business features in a Java/Spring + Oracle DBMS + JSF enterprise application; Refactored validation logic to batch database calls, improving execution speed by ~60% on critical business workflows; Remediated XSS vulnerabilities identified in a security audit.

Education

MSc: Artificial Intelligence for Connected Industries at Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
October 1, 2025 - April 4, 2026
BSc: Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
October 1, 2022 - July 1, 2025
MSc in Artificial Intelligence for Connected Industries at Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
October 1, 2025 - April 4, 2026
BSc in Computer Science at Babes-Bolyai University, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
October 1, 2022 - July 1, 2025

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Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services