Senior Java and Kotlin backend engineer with 8 years delivering Spring Boot services on AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, focused on building reliable systems with clear outcomes. Reduced deployment time by ~30% at SEG through CI/CD improvements and now builds HealthTech SaaS solutions for 200K+ daily users at Brillio. I enjoy distributed systems, clean architecture (DDD), event-driven designs, and measurable reliability practices (SLO/SLI, observability, incident response). I’m open to senior remote roles across EU, UK, and global teams where deep backend engineering matters and production impact is valued.

Adrian Bucur

Senior Java and Kotlin backend engineer with 8 years delivering Spring Boot services on AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, focused on building reliable systems with clear outcomes. Reduced deployment time by ~30% at SEG through CI/CD improvements and now builds HealthTech SaaS solutions for 200K+ daily users at Brillio. I enjoy distributed systems, clean architecture (DDD), event-driven designs, and measurable reliability practices (SLO/SLI, observability, incident response). I’m open to senior remote roles across EU, UK, and global teams where deep backend engineering matters and production impact is valued.

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Senior Java and Kotlin backend engineer with 8 years delivering Spring Boot services on AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes, focused on building reliable systems with clear outcomes. Reduced deployment time by ~30% at SEG through CI/CD improvements and now builds HealthTech SaaS solutions for 200K+ daily users at Brillio.

I enjoy distributed systems, clean architecture (DDD), event-driven designs, and measurable reliability practices (SLO/SLI, observability, incident response). I’m open to senior remote roles across EU, UK, and global teams where deep backend engineering matters and production impact is valued.

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Language

Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
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English
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Spanish; Castilian
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Work Experience

Senior Backend Developer (Kotlin) at Brillio
April 1, 2026 - Present
Designed and built a Kotlin backend suite for 200K+ daily users, shipping 15+ REST endpoints within 4 months. Developed backend APIs and automated testing for assigned features, achieving 80%+ test coverage. Built/owned CI/CD release pipelines and improved engineering delivery workflows, increasing sprint throughput (~25%) and QA regression pass rate (~30%).
Senior Java Software Engineer at SEG System-EDV und Organisationsgesellschaft mbH
May 1, 2023 - March 1, 2026
Built backend capabilities across 15+ services on AWS using shared patterns for APIs and observability during a DDD bounded-context refactor. Implemented CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and GitLab CI, reducing deployment time by 30–50% (2 hours to 45 minutes). Introduced modern monitoring and tracked SLO/SLI metrics (latency, error rate) with dashboards to support ~100% feature delivery capacity gain after refactor. Implemented OpenTelemetry distributed tracing to identify latency bottlenecks; participated in incident response and postmortems.
Senior Java Software Engineer at SEG System-EDV und Organisationgesellschaft mbH
May 1, 2023 - March 1, 2026
Introduced modern monitoring and helped grow the production codebase (~30%) during a DDD bounded-context refactor across 15+ AWS services. Implemented CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and GitLab CI, reducing deployment time by 30–50% (2 hours to 45 minutes). Tracked SLO/SLI for latency and error rate and supported ~100% feature delivery capacity post-refactor. Implemented OpenTelemetry distributed tracing to identify latency bottlenecks; participated in incident response and postmortems.
Java Developer at ddroidd
April 1, 2022 - May 1, 2023
Built OAuth2/OIDC/JWT authentication flows with Spring Security for mobile APIs. Engineered payment flows handling 100K+ transactions/month with OWASP-aligned validation; reported zero data-integrity incidents over 14 months. Delivered 3 core services with ~75% unit test coverage consumed by two mobile client applications.
Java Developer at Paddy Power BeQair
July 1, 2018 - April 1, 2022
Built and maintained accounts/rewards services on a 200+ service ecosystem serving millions of monthly active users. Delivered modules within a 12+ service monolith decomposition effort and contributed to incident response and postmortems, resolving 50+ incidents/year and reducing MTTR by ~25%. Worked across full Agile lifecycle in an 8-person squad with 40+ releases/year.
Java Developer at Paddy Power Betfair
July 1, 2018 - April 1, 2022
Built and maintained customer accounts and rewards services on a 200+ service platform serving millions of monthly active users. Delivered modules within a 12+ service monolith decomposition effort. Participated in incident response and postmortems for accounts/rewards services, resolving 50+ incidents/year and reducing MTTR (~25%). Worked across Agile lifecycle in an 8-person squad delivering 40+ releases/year.

Education

Bachelor's degree, Finance & Banking at Spiru Haret University
October 1, 2012 - June 1, 2016
Java Developer program at Scoala Informala de IT
March 1, 2018 - March 1, 2019
Bachelor's degree, Finance & Banking at Spiru Haret University
October 1, 2012 - June 1, 2016
Java Developer program at Scoala Informala de IT
March 1, 2018 - March 1, 2019
Certificate — Mentor at Ministry of Education — Romania
April 1, 2023 - July 29, 2026
Java Developer at The Informal School of IT
March 1, 2018 - July 29, 2026

Qualifications

Certificate - Mentor
April 1, 2023 - July 29, 2026
Employee of the Quarter
July 1, 2024 - July 29, 2026
Cerfificat Mentor (Ministry of Education — Romania)
April 1, 2023 - July 29, 2026

Industry Experience

Healthcare, Software & Internet, Education, Financial Services, Professional Services

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