# Mariana Dnestrean

Mariana Dnestrean is a remote worker on Himalayas, Development Team Manager at Telecom Equipment Manufacturer, based in Moldova.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@marianadnestrean

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Engineering Manager at a telecom equipment manufacturer who scaled teams from 7 to 22 and reduced defects by 30%.
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| Detail | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Moldova |
| Authorized to work in | Moldova |
| Salary expectations | 40k+ EUR |
| Job categories | Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering, Delivery Manager |
| Skills | Engineering Leadership, Team Management, AI Agents, AI Assisted Code Review, Test Case Generation, Feature Context Generation, AI Architecture, AI Augmented Development, Spec Driven Development, Scrum, Backlog Management, Release planning, Capacity Planning, Risk Management, Product Development |

## What I'm looking for

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A remote Engineering Manager, Head of Engineering or Delivery Manager role in a product company. I want to lead several teams, own delivery and the roadmap, and help teams adopt AI in development. Open to full-time or contract work in European time zones.
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## About

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At a telecom equipment manufacturer, I lead two engineering teams developing GSM controller software. I scaled the engineering organization from 7 to 22 specialists and reduced defects by 30% while the volume of work doubled.

I’m developing the AI Engineering direction, building agents and tools for code review, test generation, feature context, and architecture workflows. Earlier, at a bank, I built two web applications for the Fraud Monitoring system as the primary developer and helped build two engineering teams for a high-load Anti-Fraud platform. I’m also the author of a three-book series “AI Engineering for Developers” covering context and agent engineering, agentic systems, and agent skills.
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## Experience

### Development Team Manager (current)

Telecom Equipment Manufacturer. Apr 2025 - Present

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Lead two engineering teams developing GSM controller software, scaling the organization from 7 to 22 specialists and reducing defects by 30% while workload doubled. Own backlog, prioritization, roadmap, release planning, and capacity planning, and drive AI Engineering initiatives including AI agents and tools for code review and test generation.
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Skills: Java, Spring-Framework, Git, Jira, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Kafka, Engineering-Leadership, Team-Management, Scrum, Backlog-Management, Release-planning, Capacity-Planning, Risk-Management, Product-Development, AI-Agents, AI-Assisted-Code-Review, Test-Case-Generation, Feature-Context-Generation, AI-Architecture, AI-Augmented-Development, Spec-Driven-Development

### IT Lead / Expert Analyst

IT Company, Financial Sector. Feb 2025 - Apr 2025

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Led a full-cycle Scrum team covering development, analysis, and testing, organizing development, testing, and deployment processes. Managed backlog, priorities, timelines, and resources jointly with business and IT stakeholders, and participated in solution architecture design and technical documentation.
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Skills: Scrum, Backlog-Management, Risk-Management, Solutions-Architect, Technical-Documentation, Network-Diagrams

### Team Leader

Bank, Financial Services. Nov 2021 - Feb 2025

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Built two engineering teams for a high-load Anti-Fraud platform, managing cross-functional teams across backlog, planning, prioritization, decomposition, estimation, and delegation. Participated in architecture design, reorganized the release cycle, and organized conferences and a hackathon focused on backend development and AI.
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Skills: Java, Spring-Framework, Git, Jira, Angular, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL, Kafka, Engineering-Leadership, Team-Management, Scrum, Backlog-Management, Release-planning, Capacity-Planning, Risk-Management, Product-Development, AI-Agents

### Lead Software Engineer

Bank, Financial Services. Apr 2018 - Nov 2021

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Developed two new web applications from scratch as the primary developer for internal users of the Fraud Monitoring system. Handled planning, task decomposition and estimation, and coordination of business requirements, using Java, Spring Boot, Oracle, PostgreSQL, and Angular.
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Skills: Java, Spring-Boot, Oracle, PostgreSQL, Liquibase, Hibernate, Spring-Data, Kafka, Apache-Zookeeper, Angular, NgRX, RxJS, Jira, Confluence

### Junior Microsoft Dynamics CRM Developer

Navicon. Jul 2017 - Mar 2018

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Customized Microsoft Dynamics CRM and developed C# backend services for integration with enterprise systems. Developed plugins and background jobs, and implemented cross-browser frontend with JavaScript, jQuery, and Bootstrap.
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Skills: Microsoft-Dynamics-CRM, C#, JavaScript, jQuery, Bootstrap

## Education

### T. G. Shevchenko Pridnestrovian State University

Master's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering

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Earned a Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering with a specialization in Mathematical Modeling.
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## Tech stack

- RxJS
- Liquibase
- Spring Data
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle
- Spring Boot
- Spring Framework
- Bootstrap
- Jira
- jQuery
- JavaScript
- Java
- C#
- Hibernate
- Confluence
- TypeScript
- Git
- SQL
- NgRx
- Apache Kafka

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