Ilie Danila

One of the first engineers on Firefly Boards, a new application built on Horizon, Adobe's internal web platform; on the team from inception through general availability. Replaced an O(n) element search with a quadtree spatial index, improving hit-testing performance by 3x to 50x on dense canvases.

Designed and implemented core storage and query components for a new in-memory graph database engine. Built custom concurrent hash containers synchronized with reader-writer locks for high-throughput multi-threaded storage.

Developed features and fixes for Ivanti Endpoint Security in a team of five engineers plus QA; served as rotating scrum master.

Led a team of 12 C++ developers plus QA, BA, and PM building the POS terminal client implementation of the NEXO payment protocol. Set technical direction, hosted weekly design reviews, arbitrated code reviews, ran scrum ceremonies and monthly 1:1s, and interviewed candidates.

Led software development on ONX, an embedded ARM instrument for testing cable networks, refactoring legacy components and delivering new diagnostic features. Built a cross-platform desktop tool for streaming and viewing device logs from remote instruments in real time.

Took over a cross-platform (Windows and macOS) Qt video-editing application for eye surgery whose synchronous, blocking implementation was unmaintainable. Re-architected the codebase into a clean, asynchronous event-driven design aligned with Qt's framework model, produced new delivery estimates, and delivered new clinical features.

Poker Server team (from 2015): co-designed and implemented the Game Server and Info Server architecture redesign; owned Game Server, Info Server, and the Info Monitor admin tool. Casino Server team: developed new server releases, backend features, and game engines from market requirements, and built an automated regression-testing tool.

Server Routing team, vector map handling: designed a new server–middleware–client protocol, a multi-zoom polyline and polygon simplification algorithm, a triangulation algorithm for polygons with holes, and a caching system for map tiles and live traffic data.

Co-designed and built from scratch a new, more scalable Stat Engine (data transport layer): doubled port capacity from 800 to 1,600 in the first phase, and reached sustained statistics collection from 10,000 ports at a 2–4 second polling period.

Bachelor's degree in Informatics from Spiru Haret University.

Activities and societies: Qualified three times for the Romanian National Olympiad in Informatics (2004, 2005, 2006)

Studied Computer Science at Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Qualified three times for the Romanian National Olympiad in Informatics (2004, 2005, 2006).