Hello! 👋

I'm Cristian Filip

Senior Data Architect

About Me

Solutions and Data Architect, Software Engineer with 14+ years of experience, specialized in full-stack applications and services. Experienced with all development lifecycle stages for mid to large scale, high availability, mission critical services. Hands on experience with a large variety of AWS services, well versed in a handful of programming languages. Good collaboration with multiple teams and roles.

AWS Java Python Spark Node Typescript Airflow React Angular Ruby Bash Git Docker GitLab Azure DevOps

Experience

Senior Data Architect

Merck KGaA

Dec 2023 - Present
  • Requirement gathering, MVP proposal and high & low level design
  • Ownership of the data ingestion pipelines for multiple sites and release process
  • Tech managed, coached and implementation review for one team of engineers
  • Cross teams collaboration with business representatives, support and platform engineers
  • Review and contribute to the proposed AI infrastructure
  • Started a cross enterprise collaboration (E.ONxBMW) and driven discussions between dependencies

Senior Solutions Architect

E.ON Germany

Jul 2023 - Nov 2023
  • Requirement gathering, MVP proposal and high/low level design owner
  • Coached and overseen implementation for up to three teams of engineers on AWS infrastructure and low-level designs
  • Started a cross enterprise collaboration (E.ONxBMW) and driven discussions between dependencies

Software Engineer

Amazon Development Center Romania

Aug 2020 - May 2023
  • Developed the infrastructure for handling Privacy Right of Access Amazon.com requests (DSAR)
  • Designed and developed automated detection of personal data deviation over deleted accounts
  • Migrated internal service storage solution
  • Agreed on and put in place process to surface close to SLA DSARs to dependent support teams
  • Analysed and improved implementation to remove manual effort for USB delivered DSARs
  • Designed a unified internal teams onboarding solution to be used across Privacy teams
  • Oncall rotation, DevOps support for the team at a cadence of one week per month

Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services Ireland

Sep 2018 - Jul 2020
  • Developed email sending and deliverability events ingestion, monitoring and reporting replacement service
  • Lead the SMTP email sending infrastructure migration effort to updated technologies(NLB + Code suite)
  • Designed and developed SMTP VPC Endpoints support Oncall rotation
  • Oncall and DevOps support for the team at a cadence of one week per month

Software Engineer

Amazon Development Center Romania

Jun 2012 - Aug 2018
  • Designed and developed the SES mobile friendly console
  • Designed and lead development for the custom email verification feature https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/12/amazon-ses-introducescustom-emails-verification/
  • Designed and developed various SES enforcement features, e.g. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/messaging-and-targeting/bounces-to-domains-youhave-verified/
  • Oncall rotation, DevOps support for the team at a cadence of one week per month

Software Developer

Levi9 Global Sourcing

Apr 2011 - May 2012
  • Developed the react and commnent functionality for Hyundai.nl website
  • Developed the ZIP import functionality for Belgium car dealership

Education

Bachelor in Computer Science

University Alexandru Ioan Cuza

2008 - 2012