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Catalin StanCS

Catalin Stan

Senior Software Engineer

€500/day
Hilversum, NL
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Catalin

Senior backend engineer with 11+ years of PHP/Symfony and Laravel experience, strong in distributed systems and production infrastructure. At Mimecast I designed and owned DMARC email authentication systems at enterprise scale - 10,000+ customers, 50,000+ daily reports - and managed full Kubernetes infrastructure across multiple EKS and Kops clusters. I've resolved live production incidents under pressure: a RabbitMQ to Amazon MQ migration with zero message loss, and an Elasticsearch cluster redesign that restored performance without downtime.

Before Mimecast I architected a warehouse management system from scratch at Vivre Deco - data models, algorithms, cross-device interfaces - leading a team of three within a 10 person engineering organisation.

I work best on systems with real complexity: security-critical pipelines, high-volume data processing, infrastructure that needs to stay up.
  • Romanian

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Mimecast
    Senior Software Engineer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    November 2019 - July 2025 (5 years and 8 months)
    Designed and maintained DMARC email authentication systems protecting 10,000+ enterprise customers, processing 50,000+ reports daily across a high-volume Elasticsearch reporting pipeline Owned Kubernetes infrastructure (EKS & Kops) across multiple clusters — Helm chart authoring, rollout management, and on-call incident response for zero-downtime deployments Resolved a critical message broker outage by migrating from self-managed RabbitMQ to Amazon MQ under live conditions, including full data migration to restore service with no message loss Resolved an Elasticsearch cluster performance incident by coordinating an emergency upgrade, redesigning index distribution across nodes, and leading a codebase refactor to improve data partitioning and search performance
    PHP (Laravel & Symfony)
    • · Java
    ◦ · Docker
    ◦ · Kubernetes (EKS, Kops)
    ◦ · AWS (Lambda, Amazon MQ, RDS, Elasticsearch)
    ◦ · Terraform
    • · Jenkins
    PHP Docker Kubernetes Amazon Web Services Symfony
  • Creative Fabrica
    Senior PHP Developer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    May 2019 - November 2019 (6 months)
    Developed core features and took part on discussing the architecture of the application.
    • PHP
    • Laravel
    • AWS
    PHP Amazon Web Services DevOps
  • Vivre Deco
    Technical Team Lead
    E-COMMERCE
    November 2013 - May 2019 (5 years and 6 months)
    Led a 3-person WMS team within a 10-person engineering organisation — defining requirements, owning architecture, and delivering features end-to-end Collaborated directly with department heads to identify operational bottlenecks; proposed and delivered solutions that reduced warehouse workload by 10% and improved operational accuracy by 20% Designed and built the warehouse management system from the ground up — high-level architecture, data models, algorithms, and cross-device frontend interfaces Drove agile delivery across sprints, resolved the most complex production issues, and mentored team members

    • ·
    ◦ · PHP
    ◦ · JavaScript
    ◦ · MySQL
    ◦ · Linux
    PHP DevOps MySQL IT Architecture

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Education

  • Bachelor in Engineering & IT
    Spiru Haret University
    Bachelor in Engineering & IT

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