Adina Smeu

Software Development Engineer II at Amazon

Bucharest, Romania

About

Experience

  • Amazon (Bucharest, Romania · On-site)
    • Software Engineer II
      Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 4 mos

      Contributed to the systems that ensure products sold on Amazon's worldwide marketplaces meet regulatory and safety requirements: • Led the data collection and ingestion pipeline for an EU regulatory compliance initiative that automated compliance for 700K+ products with zero seller intervention • Designed high-level technical architectures for acting-on-behalf-of-sellers compliance flows, strategically reusing existing system integrations to avoid over-engineering • Designed and implemented asynchronous API architectures for ingesting regulatory data from European government registries • Identified and resolved critical production issues affecting hundreds of thousands of products requiring compliance • Created comprehensive documentation systems, structured onboarding processes, and operational runbooks adopted by multiple teams across the organization • Served as onboarding buddy or mentor for engineers across 4 teams spanning multiple disciplines (software development, systems development, support engineering) • Leveraged generative AI tools with rigorous quality assurance practices for legacy system analysis, documentation generation, test creation, and data quality validation

    • Software Engineer I
      Mar 2023 - Mar 2025 · 2 yrs 1 mo

      Contributed to the systems that ensure products sold on Amazon's worldwide marketplaces meet regulatory and safety requirements: • Built and maintained ML deployment tooling that reduced model deployment time from days to minutes, enabling data scientists to independently deploy and iterate on machine learning models without engineering bottlenecks • Upgraded cloud infrastructure to meet security certification requirements, including CDK modernization and secure construct adoption • Contributed to a large-scale compliance system migration across multiple regions, implementing complex multi-service integrations (document storage, case management, appeals processing) and enabling cross-region support • Designed reusable data structures and automation patterns for ML-assisted document review workflows across product safety categories

  • Undergraduate Teaching Assistant at University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
    Sep 2018 - Mar 2024 · 5 yrs 7 mos

  • Software Engineer Intern at Amazon
    Jul 2022 - Oct 2022 · 4 mos

    Improved the generation of banners and creatives by marketing teams by implementing an accessibility checker as a TypeScript library.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Amazon
    Jun 2020 - Sep 2020 · 4 mos

  • Software Development Intern at IBM
    Jul 2019 - Sep 2019 · 3 mos