Alin Damian

Manager, Big Data la Bitdefender

Romania

About

- big data manager (3+ years) - data engineer (3 years) - online threats researcher (5 years) - focused on people and technology, ready to assume responsibility - driven by enthusiasm, love to work on stuff and keep abreast of latest technology trends - 2 patents (WO2013109156A1 & US20180013789A1)

Experience

  • Bitdefender (16 yrs 10 mos)
    • Manager, Big Data Analysis
      Jan 2017 - Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

      Leading Big Data team responsible for effective collecting terabytes of data from millions of Bitdefender sensors across the world, store it and provide tools and frameworks for analysts to get the most out of their data in an efficient way. - Define strategy, priorities, roadmap, including new features & initiatives for Big Data analytics platform. - Interact directly with Product Managers and Engineering teams (technical and non-technical) to efficiently accommodate their emerging needs and capture these in the form of user stories. - Translate existing requirements into robust, scalable software applications and effectively execute on goals. - Set the technical direction and drive/demand engineering excellence across the team. - Take ideas from zero to completion and build the bridge between raw data and actionable insights and metrics. - Keep abreast of latest technology trends and provide recommendations on how new technologies and processes could help improve the team.

    • Data Engineer
      Jun 2014 - Jan 2017 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      Part of Big Data team that handled huge amounts of data from different sources. Responsibilities: - Architect, implement and deploy new data models and data processes in production. - Perform data analysis or nodeJS processors to correlate feeds and generate business insights. - Interface with Engineers and Product Managers to understand product goals and data needs, propose ingested data structure. - Create visualizations and dashboards based on ingested data to pop up relevant info at a glance. - Propose innovations where opportunities arise to meet the needs and delight our users.

    • Online Threats Researcher
      Aug 2011 - Jun 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos