// curriculum vitae

Summary.

Senior Software Engineer with 8+ years of experience building scalable backend systems, distributed applications and AI-powered products, including full-stack work with React. Experienced across Java, Python and JavaScript, with recent focus on AI-powered applications, cloud-based backend development and LLM integrations. Strong background in Google Cloud, AWS, Apache Kafka and modern backend technologies. Passionate about building reliable software and continuously learning emerging technologies.

Experience.

aidware

07/2025 – Present · Remote

Founder | Backend & AI Engineer

Building production-ready AI applications for legal and real estate clients.

  • Built AI-powered applications for multiple freelance clients across legal and real estate domains.
  • Sole engineer responsible for the end-to-end development of Pericles, a multi-agent AI platform for Spanish lawyers, built with JavaScript, Firebase and Vertex AI (Gemini).
  • Evaluated and integrated multiple LLM providers, including Claude and Gemini.
  • Developed AI-powered chatbots for Spanish real estate platforms.
  • Implemented CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions.
  • Developed Python automation scripts for document processing and information extraction.

Qualysoft Romania (Smarttech247)

05/2023 – 06/2025 · Remote

Full Stack Developer

  • Built a Java + Quarkus application and AWS Lambda functions from scratch, deployed on AWS.
  • Worked primarily on backend development while also contributing to frontend features using React.
  • Used PostgreSQL, Flyway, Docker, OpenAI and AWS services including Lambda, Cognito, CloudWatch, S3 and Amazon Q.
  • Integrated webhooks and third-party APIs for data extraction and automation.
  • Performed unit and integration testing using JUnit 5, Mockito and WireMock.
  • Collaborated remotely with a multicultural team based in Cork, Ireland, working entirely in English.

Cognyte Romania

06/2021 – 05/2023 · Bucharest, Romania

Java Developer

  • Developed features and resolved complex production issues in a large-scale Java monolith deployed on JBoss, alongside Spring Boot microservices.
  • Worked extensively with Apache Kafka to debug and troubleshoot event-driven pipelines.
  • Improved production reliability through debugging and performance analysis across REST, TCP and Kafka communication.
  • Worked with Sybase and Elasticsearch.
  • Delivered technical trainings and onboarded new engineers.

experience — continued

METRO SYSTEMS Romania

01/2018 – 06/2021 · Bucharest, Romania

Full Stack Developer

  • Developed backend applications using Java and Spring, deployed in Docker containers orchestrated by Kubernetes, on both private and public cloud (GCP).
  • Developed frontend applications using Angular and React.
  • Used Elasticsearch for log management; monitored applications with Kibana and Grafana; CI/CD with Jenkins and Ansible.
  • Worked with SQL and NoSQL databases such as MariaDB and Cassandra.
  • Awarded Third Prize at Innovation Days for a team IoT project.

METRO SYSTEMS Romania

02/2017 – 01/2018 · Bucharest, Romania

Full Stack Developer Intern

  • Worked in an Agile team at a multinational company, learning middleware principles and IBM WebSphere.
  • Developed applications using Java, Camel and JBoss.
  • Second Prize in Security Day, an internal contest on IT security fundamentals.

Speaking.

Speaker · Codecamp Romania

2021

How to Write Code 2x Faster

Presentation on IntelliJ productivity and developer workflow.

Projects.

AidArch

2025

AI-powered land analysis platform that gathers and organizes public information about a land parcel for early-stage evaluation.

  • AI
  • Data Aggregation

Land Feasibility ML

2025

Residual land value calculator on the Madrid Real Estate Kaggle dataset. Linear Regression, Random Forest and XGBoost, evaluated with MAE and R².

  • Python
  • Machine Learning
  • XGBoost

GenAI Jobs

2025

GenAI-powered application that parses job postings and extracts role details and required technologies. Ongoing side project.

  • Python
  • Streamlit
genai-jobs.streamlit.app

Blockchain Barter Exchange

2020

Hybrid decentralized application for secure online bartering, using blockchain to ensure transaction integrity.

  • Solidity
  • Truffle
  • web3.js
  • React
  • MetaMask
bitbucket.org/aidaghergus/…/BAR

Media Analysis Platform

2018

Indexing and statistical analysis of online media content — ranks series and films on multiple indicators using IBM Watson and Crawler4j.

  • Java
  • Spring
  • IBM Watson
  • MySQL
  • React
bitbucket.org/aidaghergus/…/SER

Education.

IT&C Security Master's Degree

Bucharest University of Economic Studies

2018 – 2020

BSc in Cybernetics, Statistics and Informatics

Bucharest University of Economic Studies

2015 – 2018

Certificates.

  • Machine Learning Course – IT School
  • Leadership Program – She Leads Tomorrow
  • ReactJS Fundamentals + Advanced
  • Oracle Database Design and SQL
  • Oracle Database PL/SQL Developer
  • ECDL / ICDL
  • CISCO – IT Essentials

Volunteering.

Ajungem Mari

10/2016 – 10/2017

Coordinator Member

Educational program for children from foster care and disadvantaged backgrounds.

SiSC — Students Union of Cybernetics

11/2015 – 11/2016

IT Department Member