Mihai Vîrză

Available to hire

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Work Experience

Data Engineer at Self-employed
October 1, 2024 - Present
Led the data layer for an AI-driven product, designing and implementing a Medallion architecture for both structured and unstructured data. Built scalable data pipelines in Azure Databricks with PostgreSQL integration, developed ingestion frameworks, managed vector databases for AI workflows, and implemented automated CI/CD pipelines. Architected production-grade data environments focusing on performance, security, and scalability, and contributed to AI model data preparation and feature engineering.
ETL DevOps Engineer at ING Bank
May 1, 2022 - September 30, 2024
Part of a scrum squad (6-8 people) delivering in 3-week sprints. Built a Data Lake using IBM Infosphere Suite (Datastage, Administrator) with Oracle databases. Responsibilities included data analysis and physical modeling, maintaining versioning models, developing data products for mortgages, monitoring production flows, solving production incidents, onboarding new data, SDLC involvement, and Azure deployments; contributed to Oracle performance improvements in small groups.
ETL Datawarehouse Developer at Societe Generale
July 1, 2021 - May 31, 2022
Developed ETL jobs to feed the Datawarehouse, ensured development and bug fixing, participated in acceptance testing and validation, worked in an Agile/Scrum team, ensured architectural and operational standards, maintained evolutive and corrective maintenance, and designed data warehouse processes using IBM Datastage; performed query tuning and wrote triggers, procedures, functions, and packages.
ETL Datawarehouse Developer at Coface Technologies
October 1, 2017 - July 31, 2021
Designed and engineered high-performing, scalable enterprise data warehouses and datamarts; responsible for data warehouse design, build, migration, and ETL using IBM Datastage; integrated MongoDB with Datastage workflows; created DEV/TEST environments; defined data mappings and transformations; maintained data models and data quality; participated in SDLC and code reviews.
Oracle Developer at Deutsche Bank
June 1, 2015 - October 31, 2017
Developed an anti-money laundering application using Oracle and SAS technologies; optimized database performance through query tuning and high-cost SQL reduction; collaborated with BAs and DBAs; utilized SAS Management Console and SAS Enterprise Guide for data management and reporting; conducted code reviews to ensure quality and reliability.
Support Software Engineer at Inter Data ABS
January 1, 2013 - June 30, 2015
Delivered testing and technical support for strategic software projects; designed testing strategies (test plans, cases, automated scripts); supported CI processes; served as primary technical contact for two strategic customer accounts; conducted trainings and provided consultancy; performed patch and release management and database maintenance including PL/SQL optimization.
OPN Operations Specialist at Oracle Romania
February 1, 2010 - December 31, 2012
Managed partner ecosystem operations for Oracle's Partner Network; maintained APEX application tracking for specializations; validated partner enrollments via Siebel CRM; handled partner payments, statuses, exemptions; produced regular and ad-hoc reports; acted as liaison between management, OPN Finance, and cross-functional teams.

Education

Database Business Support Master at ASE Bucharest
January 1, 2012 - December 31, 2014
Bachelor's degree in Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics at Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics, ASE Bucharest
January 1, 2009 - December 31, 2012

Qualifications

Databricks Data Engineer Associate
January 1, 2025 - January 11, 2026
Oracle Database: Program with PL/SQL
January 1, 2015 - January 11, 2026
SQL Tuning for Developers
January 1, 2014 - January 11, 2026
Certificate in Database Design and Programming with SQL
January 1, 2011 - January 11, 2026
Time Management Training
January 1, 2012 - January 11, 2026

Industry Experience

Financial Services, Software & Internet, Professional Services, Other

Experience Level

Expert
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