Mara Dascalu

Software Engineer at Snyk

Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

About

Experience

  • Software Engineer at Snyk
    May 2026 - Present · 2 mos

  • Backend Developer at Moon Active
    May 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

    - Contribute the end-to-end development of multiple production features, from concept and design to deployment, ensuring scalability, performance, and reliability. - Optimize backend features supporting a high-load gaming system (+10M DAUs) using Node.js and TypeScript. - Authored comprehensive technical documentation (API specs, architecture diagrams, and integration guides) for features in order to support maintainability and cross-team collaboration. - Managed production releases by proactively scaling resources before launch and monitoring logs and incidents post-deployment, minimizing downtime and performance degradation. - Contribute to a high-impact campaign that accounted for 20% of total company revenue. - Collaborate on monitoring, scalability, and performance optimization initiatives. - Take initiative in code reviews, technical planning and readiness.

  • 4PSA (Bucharest, Romania · On-site)
    • Software Quality Assurance Engineer
      Jul 2023 - Dec 2023 · 6 mos

      - test telephony plugin that is developed using Asterisk and Kamailio - manual testing application developed for real-time audio and video calls using LiveKit and assure that it has the functionalities of the old plugin, plus the additional features are working properly - manual testing web and mobile (iOS and Android) application in search of backend and fronted issues

    • Software Quality Assurance Engineer
      Oct 2022 - Jun 2023 · 9 mos

      - developed functional JavaScript tests for internal database forked from Redis - developed tests for platform's backend services using Codeception for PHP testing - developed functional interface tests for web and mobile (iOS and Android) application using WebdriverIO, a Node.js framework - manual testing web and mobile (iOS and Android) application in search of backend and fronted issues

    • Software Quality Assurance Intern
      Jun 2022 - Sep 2022 · 4 mos

      - developed functional interface tests for web and mobile (iOS and Android) application using WebdriverIO, a Node.js framework - manual testing web and mobile (iOS and Android) application in search of backend and fronted issues