Software engineer with five years of production experience building React-based web tooling, dashboards, and automated testing/CI infrastructure. Strong background in REST API design, event-driven architecture, and AWS cloud deployment (SQS, SNS, autoscaling) from five years of Java/Spring Boot microservices work at Ocado Technology, plus hands-on experience with observability and real-time monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic). Comfortable working within distributed, remote international teams, picking up new frameworks and languages quickly, and bringing an automation-first approach to modern engineering workflows.

Razvan Rachita

Software engineer with five years of production experience building React-based web tooling, dashboards, and automated testing/CI infrastructure. Strong background in REST API design, event-driven architecture, and AWS cloud deployment (SQS, SNS, autoscaling) from five years of Java/Spring Boot microservices work at Ocado Technology, plus hands-on experience with observability and real-time monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic). Comfortable working within distributed, remote international teams, picking up new frameworks and languages quickly, and bringing an automation-first approach to modern engineering workflows.

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Software engineer with five years of production experience building React-based web tooling, dashboards, and automated testing/CI infrastructure. Strong background in REST API design, event-driven architecture, and AWS cloud deployment (SQS, SNS, autoscaling) from five years of Java/Spring Boot microservices work at Ocado Technology, plus hands-on experience with observability and real-time monitoring (Prometheus, Grafana, New Relic). Comfortable working within distributed, remote international teams, picking up new frameworks and languages quickly, and bringing an automation-first approach to modern engineering workflows.

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Language

English
Fluent
Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
Fluent
German
Advanced

Work Experience

Independent Contracting — Self-employed
June 1, 2025 - Present
Delivered occasional short-term back-end and automation work for early-stage startups, incorporating AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot). Reached B2 proficiency in German.
Independent Contracting - Self-employed
June 1, 2025 - Present
Delivered occasional short-term backend and automation work for early-stage startups, incorporating AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot). Reached B2 proficiency in German.
Software Engineer at Ocado Technology
August 1, 2019 - May 1, 2025
Fully remote in-store fulfillment (2.5 years). Built and maintained internal React dashboards and operational tooling for operations teams, gathering requirements from end users and iterating based on UI feedback. Improved CI/CD pipelines, build templates, automated tests, and release workflows using Git and GitLab CI. Led migration of the observability stack from New Relic to Prometheus and Grafana, including new data visualization dashboards; exposed JVM/infrastructure via Micrometer and Spring Boot actuator plus custom business metrics. Owned backend services for putaway, warehouse receiving, and in-store fulfillment in a multi-tenant environment serving clients globally. Mentored 6 junior engineers and conducted 40+ technical interviews over three years. Practiced TDD with JUnit/Mockito/WireMock; designed and built Java/Spring Boot microservices in an event-driven architecture (SNS/SQS) enabling retailers to automate and manage warehouse replenishment at scale.

Education

BSc Computer Science at University of Southampton
October 1, 2016 - July 1, 2019
BSc Computer Science at University of Southampton
October 1, 2016 - July 1, 2019

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Retail, Computers & Electronics, Professional Services