Ion Mudreac

DataFusion Systems, part of the Lumine Group (previously under Nokia/Siemens), is a global leader in lawful interception and intelligence technologies. Reporting to CEO, leading 80+ Engineers and Product.

• • Technology Leadership: Defined and executed technology and product strategy, delivering secure, scalable, and innovative intelligence solutions
• • Global Team Leadership: Built and led high-performing cross-regional teams across EMEA and APAC, driving collaboration and technical excellence
• • Innovation & R&D: Integrated cutting-edge technologies, including LLM, ASR, and Big Data analytics, to enhance product capabilities
• • AI: Development of Local LLM (STT), language identification, transcription, diarization, and translation for multilingual intelligence operations
• • Engineering Excellence: Introduced (XP) practices, TDD, ATDD, and Pair Programming, to improve code quality, delivery speed, and collaboration
• • AI Development Engineering Practices: Implemented Context-Driven AI development leveraging LLMs and AI agentic flows using GitHub Copilot Chat with IDE integration, streamlining productivity and innovation across teams with code reviews, code generation, testing, and documentation
• • Intelligence Platform Enhancements: Delivered next-generation modules for IP traffic and data context capture, protocol analysis, and OTTA
• • CI/CD Transformation: Designed and deployed fully automated CI/CD pipeline, moving from Legacy to GitLab with build, test, and deployment workflows
• • Big Data Analytics: Built analytics platform using ClickHouse, enabling multi-source data aggregation, correlation, and visualization for intelligence
• • Observability: Implemented modern observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry) for real-time monitoring and performance insights
• • Agile Transformation: Reorganized product and technology into cross-functional squads, aligning teams and delivery pipelines with strategic goals

Series D fintech AI startup valued at $2B USD, backed by SoftBank and Warburg Pincus. Products include AI-driven eKYC, fraud detection, credit scoring, and Atome (SE Asia's largest BNPL platform). SaFi Bank — digital banking arm in the Philippines. Reporting to CEO, leading 170+ Engineers and Product.

• • Enterprise Architecture organized around CHO, DDD principles, eXtreme Programming, CD, TDD
• • Back-end Development: Core Banking microservices, Kotlin, Micronaut, Temporal.io, Kafka Pub/Sub, gRPC
• • Front-end Development: Flutter/Dart cross-platform Android/iOS, passwordless authentication and authorization, PKI
• • DevOps/SRE: Cloud native GCP and GKE, deployed as IaC supporting Core Banking Thought Machine
• • Application Security: Compliance with BSP regulatory requirements, using Okta, IAM, Cloudflare WAF/CDN
• • Internal Security: Cloudflare Zero Trust model using HWD YubiKey WebAuth method
• • Desktop Support and Call Center: JAMF device management and Genesys with EDGE for call centers
• • Big Data, AI, Risk Management: BigQuery, Vortex.ai, Kafka, Alloy DB, Advance.ai OneStop Platform for eKYC, vKYC

Singtel is the largest telecommunications company in the Asia Pacific region. Singtel Enterprise provides services to businesses and government agencies including 5G, cloud, cybersecurity, IoT, and voice/collaboration. Reporting to VP of Singtel Enterprise and 5G, leading 30+ team members.

• • Led Development and platform support for SaaS Singtel Platform (mybusiness.singtel.com) — .Net and PHP based SaaS B2B portal
• • Led Development for Online eShop platform (99sme.sg) — PHP based e-Commerce B2C portal
• • Cloud billing for AWS, Azure, and GCP using NumPy, Pandas, AWS Lambda, S3, Vue.js, AWS Cognito, API Gateway
• • Cloud resale and AIOps portal (Matrix) running on GCP/GKE, Pulumi Python IaC, Nix
• • Led Day 1, Day 2 Cloud Solution Architecture and Delivery teams covering Financial, Telecom, Transport, and Government industries
• • Solution Architecture for Cloud Migration "Landing Zone", Multi-Cloud Integration and Management, Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Joint venture startup between Singtel, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros. offering OTT video service in Asia. Served 90+ million users across Asia Pacific, competing with Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu. Reporting to CTO, leading 35+ team members.

• • Implemented new microservice architecture with Monorepo and Trunk-based development on GitHub Actions
• • Implemented Single-Sign-On for AWS, GitHub, Elastic, Artifactory, and G-Suite. IaC Terraform, Pulumi on AWS and GCP
• • Migrated to Elastic Cloud from in-house Open Source ELK for in-app search engine and log/metrics aggregator
• • Migrated binary repository from S3 to JFrog Artifactory, AWS ECS to Kubernetes with Istio service mesh
• • Big Data, AI, Data Pipelines based on Apache Airflow, AWS Athena, Lambda Functions

First digital bank in Asia, based in Hong Kong. Joint venture between Standard Chartered Bank, PCCW, HKT, and Trip.com. Operating under virtual banking license granted by HKMA. Reporting to CEO, leading 120+ team members.

• • Cloud Engineering on Google Cloud and Amazon AWS with IaC Terraform
• • Microservice messaging bus with Kafka Operator
• • Core banking with Thought Machine
• • CI/CD with Istio, Spinnaker
• • Big Data/ML with BigQuery, Bigtable, Dataflow, Google ML toolkit
• • Security with HashiCorp Vault
• • Monitoring: Stackdriver, Grafana/Prometheus, ELK

Global banking and financial services company operating in 60+ countries. Managed Enterprise Data Management (EDM) program. Reporting to CDO, leading 450+ team members.

• • Enterprise Data Management Integration (EDMI) on Software AG OpenShift, Solace
• • API Gateway Kong and developer portal (developer.sc.com)
• • Robotics Process Automation (RPA) with Openspan and Blueprism
• • AI/ML Instabase Platform (instabase.com)
• • Blockchain Payment system Ripple XRP
• • Enterprise Content Management (ECM): eOps-based workflow and Image Scanning
• • Reference Data Management (RDM): Build/Manage Central Platform for Core Reference Data
• • Integration Services: MQ/MFT/TLM/MDIS
• • Enterprise Workflow Management: GEMS, CERS, CERSTA, iPROMPT, GCC Dashboard

• • eFX low-latency algorithmic trading and FX Option global application management team lead
• • eFX connectivity business support and FX Murex Cash and Currency Asia Pacific Regional lead

• • Led FOREX, Money Markets, and Rates Teams for 1st and 2nd Trading Application Support in Asia Pacific Region

• • Front and Back Office FICC and GWM application management
• • Problem and Incident Manager
• • Release Management and Roll-Out Support
• • Vendor Application Management (TRAM, Musketeer, MarginMan) for FX, Treasury, Equity, Bond, Commodity trading desks, Credit & Lending

• • Implemented Project Management solution Redmine, running on Linux, PostgreSQL 8, Ruby on Rails
• • Developed Incident Report Database System on Ruby, Java, JDBC, Oracle 8, Solaris 10, Tomcat
• • Source Control Management with SVN, Mercurial

• • HA & MPP Clustering Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL5 DB Clustering for mobile multimedia content delivery
• • Financial Industry: MUFG, Shinsei Bank, KDDI, Rakuten Bank — Integration iFlex FlexCube for Core Banking, Branch Banking, Internet Banking, Mobile Banking

• • Developed Business Strategy for the entire IT department
• • CMS/CMF Intranet System Research & Implementation

• • Course: Investment Efficiency in IT&C and Mathematical Economic Modelling
• • Published multiple research papers on IT investment efficiency and e-business