BDW Bucharest 2024 Archives - Big Data Week Bucharest

Ruxandra Caba

Lavinia Bucur — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 10:18:57 +0000

Ruxandra Caba is a Data Science Manager at CrowdStrike, where she oversees the development of generative models for Charlotte AI. With a deep expertise in machine learning, she has previously contributed to building ML models at Adobe and co-founded CloudHero, a cloud solutions company. Earlier in her career, she played a pivotal role at uberVU, developing scalable data processing pipelines that helped power the platform’s growth. A lifelong learner, Ruxandra has completed Seth Godin’s altMBA and earned a Master’s-level credential in STATS116 from Stanford University. She is passionate about pushing the boundaries of AI and data science.

Madalin Stan

Lavinia Bucur — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 17:50:12 +0000

Madalin is a proficient business intelligence consultant with nearly a decade of experience in various industries such as retail, e-commerce, and insurance sector, currently serving as AI&Data Manager at Deloitte Technology Delivery Center and one of the leaders within the center’s team dedicated to Microsoft business solutions. Over the last 5 years, he has been specializing in data strategy, architecture and analytics while helping organizations to unlock the value of their data. Madalin has successfully led the implementation of cutting-edge data platforms, focusing on cloud-based architectures, data lakes and advanced analytics solutions. Driven by a passion for emerging technologies, Madalin constantly explores new trends in cloud computing, AI and data automation, enabling organizations to adopt innovative solutions.

Viorel Anghel

Lavinia Bucur — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:49:48 +0000

Viorel Anghel has 25+ years of experience as an IT Professional, taking on various roles, such as Systems Architect, Sysadmin, Network Engineer, SRE, DevOps, and Tech Lead. He has a background in Unix/Linux systems administration, high availability, scalability, change, and config management. Also, Viorel is RedHat Certified Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, and Certified Kubernetes Application Developer and Administrator working with Docker, Kubernetes, Xen, AWS, GCP, Cassandra, Kafka, and many other technologies. He currently serves as Head of Cloud and Infrastructure at eSolutions.

Cristian Udroiu

Lavinia Bucur — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:25:04 +0000

With a decade of experience in data engineering and big data development, Cristian specializes in designing and implementing scalable data solutions across various platforms. Proficient in Cloudera, Hive, Impala, Spark, and MapReduce, he has successfully led numerous projects leveraging the power of big data technologies.

Cristian is also skilled in cloud platforms, including Google Cloud Platform and Azure Data Platform, utilizing tools like BigQuery and Databricks to drive data-driven decision-making. An advocate for automation and orchestration, he frequently employs Airflow and Kubernetes to streamline workflows and enhance data pipeline efficiency.

Passionate about sharing knowledge and fostering collaboration in the data community, Cristian looks forward to discussing innovative strategies and best practices for harnessing big data at this year’s conference.

Beni Gal-Janko

Lavinia Bucur — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:21:17 +0000

Beni is a Principal Software Development Engineer at EPAM, specializing in the design and maintenance of advanced big data toolsets to manage and process petabytes of data on AWS. With over 10 years of experience in cloud technologies, he leverages his expertise in Python and Terraform to deliver scalable and efficient solutions for complex data...

Balazs Gaspar

Lavinia Bucur — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 15:56:25 +0000

Balazs Gaspar is a Director of Product Management at Cloudera. After spending over half a decade in a pre-sales role at Cloudera, today, he is responsible for ensuring that the Cloudera cloud platform remains aligned with customer needs and evolving industry trends. His focus is on improving operations and usability to deliver a seamless and...

Alex Bordei

Lavinia Bucur — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:11:46 +0000

Alex Bordei has been developing hosting & cloud products and services for over 15 years. He was a key member in the development of MetalSoft platform, which was first deployed at Bigstep Cloud in 2014.

He is passionate about HPC & computing performance in general having executed many studies and benchmarks on networking latency performance, NoSQL scaling, Hadoop and Spark scaling, and more.

He also has experience building AI & Big Data processing solutions such as Lentiq and the Bigstep Data Platform. He holds a master’s degree in computer science & industrial automation from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest.

Andra Bichea

Lavinia Bucur — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 13:50:23 +0000

Andra Ioana Bichea is an accomplished GenAI Consultant, currently serving as a GenAI Delivery Lead for an account within the banking sector and also as an IBM GenAI Community Lead, with a proven track record in delivering AI-driven solutions. As the 1st place winner of the Global Watsonx Challenge, Andra has extensive experience leading AI projects across industries, including pharma and government, with a focus on digital transformation, business value assessments, and strategic innovation. Andra also serves as a GenAI Trainer at several universities, guiding future AI professionals.

Valentin Tomici

Lavinia Bucur — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 12:02:15 +0000

With over 25 years of experience as a full stack developer and more than 5 years experience as an application architect with proficiency in a lot of programming languages and frameworks such as Java, PHP, JS, TS, IoT, Blockchain, VueJS, Angular, React/Next, Ionic, Node/Nest, Valentin’s recent focus, over the last two years, is in GenAI and trying to get the best out of the LLMs available on the market.

He recently got an inventor patent in the GenAI area.

At IBM, Valentin has built a powerful platform that brings GenAI into the lives of his colleagues but is also available for clients.

Combining all modern LLMs, and RAG patterns but also integrating with 3rd parties (Jira, Confluence, Adobe, etc) they want to offer a new experience in each person’s daily job with the help of GenAI.

Marian Simpetru

Lavinia Bucur — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:27:54 +0000

With over 25 years of experience in software development, Marian Simpetru is the Managing Partner at eSolutions. He has played a key role in developing custom software solutions and architectures, with a significant focus on big data platform architectures over the past years.

In recent years, Marian has turned his attention to Artificial Intelligence, driving eSolutions’ AI initiatives and fostering early adoption of AI practices and strategies within the company. Marian has taken a leading role in developing eSolutions’ AI products, leveraging his experience to build an enthusiastic team of engineers specialized in AI implementations, encourage innovation, and deliver cutting-edge solutions.

As an occasional speaker at tech events, he shares his insights on Open Source technologies, Java, Big Data, and AI.