BDW Bucharest 2020 Archives - Big Data Week Bucharest

Andras Palfi

Lavinia Bucur — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:17:10 +0000

Experienced in solving real world business problems using data science and machine learning. Currently focusing on automating repetitive tasks by blending together RPA and machine learning.

Doug Sillars, PhD

Lavinia Bucur — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 13:56:45 +0000

Doug Sillars is Head of Developer Relations at api.video, Google Developer Expert, author of O’Reilly’s “High Performance Android Apps” and passionately focusing on improving the performance of websites. Based in London, UK, he often speaks at meetups and conferences on mobile performance, video performance and the web.

Mihnea Mihailescu

Lavinia Bucur — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 12:22:36 +0000

Mihnea is an e-Government enthusiast having spent recent years in top management positions for Romanian IT businesses. He is now Deputy CEO for Trencadis Corp, an organic growing Romanian integrator managing complex IT systems, accessed by more than 100.000 citizens daily. Mihnea joined Trencadis in May 2017 having previously shown his expertise in implementing many critical systems as Project and Program Manager from 2003 to 2017 in e-Government, Retail, Automotive and Telco IT sectors.

Mihnea Mihailescu began his project management career holding local and regional positions in Softwin and IBM, implementing projects in various countries, such as Serbia, Bulgaria, The Netherlands and UK. He earned a degree in Economics and likes to ski and travel in the rural and historic sites of Romania.

Sorin Peste

Lavinia Bucur — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 15:05:13 +0000

Sorin has been involved with software in one way or another ever since he was ten.
From building his own games for fun, moving to professional developer, Technical Team Leader, Consultant, Solution Architect – and nowadays showcasing the latest and greatest stuff coming to you from Microsoft.

Sorin is interested in all the things technology can do to make our lives better and more fun.
Specifically, he is keen to find out about – and play with – the latest and greatest on artificial intelligence, virtual reality, cloud computing and the Internet of Things.

Andreea Mihailescu

Lavinia Bucur — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:03:14 +0000

Andreea is a passionate ML and robotics engineer as well as a skilled software developer, focusing on solving intriguing problems with cutting-edge technology. With roughly 9 years of experience in the fields of ML/DL and AI and 5 years’ experience in big data, she initiated and conducted various predictive analytics projects. She was a grant recipient within the Swiss Big Data Research Programme and a lecturer on machine learning and big data related topics in two summer schools, at the University of Pannonia in Hungary and at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in Italy.

Andreea holds an innovation prize for unmanned marine surface vehicles and she is currently enjoying the last months of her “Edge AI for IoT Developers” Intel Scholarship for 2020. Last but not least, she is the Tech Entrepreneurship Ambassador for Romania within the IEEE Entrepreneurship Initiative and she’s been holding this position since 2019.

Matei Popa

Lavinia Bucur — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:46:12 +0000

Matei Popa is a Linux enthusiast that started to work in the field as a Linux sysadmin in 2004. After becoming NOC manager at a local service provider, he co-founded a digital marketing agency in 2010. As a DevOps Engineer, he leads the company’s client portfolio migration from traditional web host infrastructure to microservice architectures hosted in the cloud.

The company joined eSolutions in 2018 where he started as a DevOps engineer and worked on several cloud-based projects, with a special interest in Big Data technologies and security best practices in the cloud. He now works as a Cloud Architect & Big Data SysOps and is involved in cloud-based big data projects, holding certifications from Google and Cloudera.

Cristina Beldie

Lavinia Bucur — Thu, 17 Sep 2020 13:33:18 +0000

With an accumulated marketing experience of more than 15 years, Cristina Beldie, Marketing Manager at Bisgtep, says louder than ever that the only constant in our days is continuous change. So, the secret is to be curious and able to adapt to our fast-changing environment.

From fashion to IT, and from entrepreneurship to large enterprises, she is now fully dedicated to Bigstep, the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company focused on providing businesses with the benefits of bare metal and the flexibility of the cloud.

Miron Brezai

Lavinia Bucur — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 14:01:30 +0000

With almost 20 years of experience in various software development positions, from programmer to architect, Miron is currently Chief Software Architect at eSolutions. His focus is on designing custom software solutions on cloud infrastructures and microservices architectures for various business domains. Miron can easily adapt to any technology with a preference towards open source java tools/frameworks.

He is also actively involved in eSolutions Academy, delivering training in key areas, such as Java, Design Patterns, Spring Framework, Clean Code, Reactive Programming, Microservices Architectures, and Big Data Tools.

Stefan Opariuc

Lavinia Bucur — Wed, 09 Sep 2020 13:33:57 +0000

Stefan is an engineer at heart with a passion to understand complex systems and find what makes them tick. After a few years of developing backends for web applications, the data landscape really got his attention and so his quest started! The data journey usually starts with a select * from table but it’s only up to us how far we want to go! He just got to the point of applying his engineering and analytical skills to extract, manipulate and deliver insightful information to enable growth, good decision making and so many others! So curious what’s next …

Dorian Hodorogea

Lavinia Bucur — Fri, 04 Sep 2020 07:31:04 +0000

Dorian Hodorogea is an “analytics” mind with a curious soul, working as a Customer Engineer for Data Analytics at Google. He is based in Bucharest and covers customers around CEE helping them find innovative solutions with the help of technology. In the past 12 years, he has covered different industries as well as technologies in the...