Alex Bolboaca

CTO, Senior Trainer at Mozaic Works

With over 25 years of international experience in the world of software and technology, Alexandru shares about himself:

Being deeply passionate about technology creation I am a continuous learner in the field. Between reading, trying out technologies and multiple programming languages, presenting and participating to developer communities and conferences, I have learned enough to write two books and teach hundreds of developers and architects.

I love working with smart people who want to get better at what they do, whether it’s team work, communication, management or technical skills. I offer you my passion, my experience and my capacity to adapt to your needs.

About Alex

• Over 25-years experience in software development, technology and transformations fields
• Adept at multiple software architecture styles, including: Microservices, Cloud Native, Hexagonal, Event-Driven, Space Based or Microkernel Architecture
• Polyglot programmer who uses modern development practices in C/C++, Java, C#, Python, Groovy, Javascript or PHP
• Coached teams from companies ranging from startups to large corporations on: Organizational practices (Scrum, Kanban, XP)
• Technical practices: Unit Testing, Continuous Integration, Test Driven Development (TDD), Technical Strategy, working with large codebases, Testing Strategy, Architecture, Design
• DevOps, infrastructure automation, cloud computing. As Mozaic Works CTO, Alex manages the organization infrastructure including technical strategy, multiple websites, internal tools and integrations
• Analysis practices: BDD, Specification by Example, ATDD
• Collaboration practices: pair programming, ensemble / mob programming, communicating more effectively about code and design
• Organizational change: Agile Transition, Lean Transition, XP adoption
• One of the few people who teaches & coaches embedded C/C++ developers on technical practices like: refactoring, test-driven development or API Design, including real time systems
• Author of ‘Usable Software Design’ and co-author of ‘Coderetreat Hosting and Facilitating’
• First Coderetreat facilitator outside US (with Maria Diaconu) – http://coderetreat.org/history details his contribution to the event
• Facilitating Coderetreats, tens of events all over Europe since 2009
• Developed software for small, medium and large companies from more than 5 countries, including UK, Switzerland, France, US, Belgium, Luxembourg and Romania
• Developed software for more than 5 industries, including: banking, energy, telecommunications, media planning, printing, eHealth
• Had the roles of: software developer, team leader, technical lead, project manager, software architect, independent consultant, technical coach, technical trainer and was also exposed to business ideas from the startup community and from my collaboration with Mozaic Works
• Spoke at conferences: Agile Eastern Europe, Agile Central Europe, Open Agile Romania, Web Expo, HowToWeb, OWASP, etc.
• Founding member of the Romanian Agile Lean Community, organized meetings, held multiple presentations and workshops – details available on www.agileworks.ro
• Had unique opportunities of learning with JB Rainsberger, Corey Haines, Janet Gregory, David Hussman, Michael Feathers, Rebecca Wirfs-Brock and other experienced and famous people from the industry