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Senior C++ Engineer & Team Lead — Safety-Critical Automotive, Defence & Industrial Systems
Iasi, Romania
Worldwide
BSc, Economic SciencesAbout me
Nearly a decade across five industries — automotive, defence, industrial, semiconductor, finance. Real-time systems, build and CI tooling, 3D and touchscreen interfaces, performance work. I lead teams and mentor engineers.
GeminiAtlassian JiraBoost (C++ Libraries)C++ (Programming Language)CMakeLinuxEnterprise ArchitecturePython (Programming Language)Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT)Qt Modeling Language (QML)Qt (Software)TypeScriptGitgRPCDocker
Languages & core engineering
- C++20, Python, Typescript as my primary languages, with nearly a decade of continuous production work. Strong grounding in object-oriented design, design patterns, RAII and modern idiomatic practice, including migrating legacy embedded codebases to modern tooling, automation and build infrastructure.
Domains
- Automotive safety and interior sensing: AI-driven cabin monitoring for a leading German automotive OEM — driver state monitoring for drowsiness and medical distress, hands-on-wheel detection, and out-of-position occupant alerts.
- Defence and unmanned systems: flight control, telemetry, and command-and-control software for unmanned aerial platforms, as lead developer.
- ADAS and parking: low-speed assisted manoeuvring, including automated and semi-automated parking systems.
- Industrial control: touchscreen control interfaces and 3D rendering applications for laser and waterjet cutting machinery.
- Data and analytics: a data analysis platform serving the automotive, semiconductor, and paints and coatings industries — statistical function optimisation for large-scale datasets, workflow redesign, and contribution to an in-house meta-language for scripting complex analysis.
- Finance: internal platform work supporting client stock trading and transaction processing.
- Heavy machinery: fleet tracking and inter-machine communication systems.
Safety-critical standards & quality
- MISRA-compliant development. Automotive SPICE process compliance, including full documentation, unit and integration test coverage. Static and dynamic analysis as continuous practice rather than release-gate activity: Clang-Tidy, Cppcheck, Valgrind. Test frameworks: GTest and GMock.
Architecture & communication
- Real-time inter-system communication layers using gRPC and MQTT. Performance optimisation for large datasets and constrained environments. System modelling with Enterprise Architect.
Frameworks & libraries
- Qt, QML and QtWidgets for desktop, embedded and touchscreen interfaces, including 3D rendering. Boost. OpenCV for computer vision work.
Tooling, build & DevOps
- CMake and Python build tooling and project structure. Containerised development and deployment workflows with Docker on Linux. CI/CD with Jenkins, Git, GitLab and Artifactory. Comfortable owning build and release infrastructure alongside application development.
Leadership & process
- Currently leading a development team: technical direction, code-review standards, and mentoring. Experience taking junior and embedded-C developers through the transition to modern C++, covering OOP, design patterns and idiomatic practice. Agile and Scrum delivery, Jira.
Engagement
- Remote B2B contracts, full-time positions. Willing to relocate.
Experience
Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2023
Languages
EnglishFluentRomanianNative speaker
Project history
Lead developer on control software for unmanned aerial systems and related defence applications. Developed flight control, telemetry, and command-and-control software for drone platforms. Designed real-time inter-system communication layers using gRPC and MQTT. Led the development team with technical direction, code-review standards, and mentoring. Built and maintained containerised development and deployment workflows with Docker on Linux.
AI-driven cabin monitoring for a leading German automotive OEM focused on occupant safety. Implemented driver state monitoring for drowsiness and medical distress detection, hands-on-wheel detection, and out-of-position alerts. Delivered full documentation and unit & integration test coverage to Automotive SPICE standards.
Data analysis platform used across the automotive, semiconductor, and paints & coatings industries. Optimised statistical functions for large-scale datasets, redesigned core technical workflows, built bespoke features and interfaces for enterprise clients, and contributed to an in-house meta-language for scripting complex analysis tasks.