Dan Cristian

Rotaru

Spain, interviewing for Perth, Western

Australia (Visa sponsorship required)

September 09, 1992

rotarudancris@gmail.com

ES: +34 692682845

https://rotarudan.github.io

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SKILLS

Java AWS

TypeScript Full-stack

CI/CD Node.js

React Docker

Spring System Design

LANGUAGES

English Spanish Romanian

AWARDS

Best Serious Game: 'UNA HISTORIA

MÁS'

1 -

First place 'Best Serious Game'

(by

UCM

2 - Second place 'Best Project for

Access and Protection of Open

Educational Resources' (by

Comillas

Pontical University

3 - Second place 'Best Project for

Education, Cognitive Accessibility,

Intellectual Disability' (by

UNIR

Best Serious Game: 'UN BAILE, UN

SUEÑO'

Received rst place for best game for

raising awareness about traditional

Spanish dance among kids aged 8 to

12 years (by

Spanish National Ballet

CERTIFICATIONS

AWS Solutions Architect

Associate

Currently undertaking.

Expected completion June 2023.

Advanced Google

Analytics

Issued August 2015.

Expired May 2017.

REFERENCES

Elvis Frank Canchari Lapa

Atlassian & DevOps SME

After

working with Dan, I highly recommend

him for his exceptional work and skills

using Java, Node, React, and applying

AWS best practices. He consistently

demonstrates a strong sense of

ownership, bias for action, and a track

record of delivering results.

Baltasar Fernández-Manjón

Honorary Chair on Digital Education

and Serious Games

Dan is an expert

programmer, able to work in

multinational teams and results

oriented as he has demonstrated in

the complex implementations we have

made in the European projects of the

H2020.

Jorge David Granda León

Atlassian Solution Architect &

Software Developer

Dan is an

exceptional Senior Software Engineer

with a strong technical background, a

talent for resolving ambiguities, a

passion for mentoring colleagues, and

an outstanding ability to earn trust. I

recommend him without hesitation,

and I am condent that he will be a

valuable addition to any team.

INTERESTS

AI Gaming Mentoring

Hiking Skydiving Travelling

I am a

Senior Full-stack Software Engineer

with more than

10 years of experience

SDE II

Amazon Business Prime

where I focused on delivering benets, benet

usage, collection, tracking and aggregation in the

backend

, as well as the Business

Prime sign-up process and engagement rendering in the

frontend

. I utilized a

variety of

AWS

services, including

Lambda

DynamoDB

EC2

CloudWatch

ECS

SQS

SNS

IAM

Evidently

, and

CloudWatch

. Previously, as an

SDE

for both the

European Union

and the

Spanish Government

for

ve years

, I worked with a

range of technologies such as

Kafka

Apache Storm Trident

ElasticSearch

Maven

MongoDB

Kibana

Angular

NodeJS

Jenkins

Docker

LibGDX

and native

Android

API

WORK EXPERIENCE

Amazon

SDE II

in the Business Prime team (B2B) focusing on delivering benets, benet

usage, collection, tracking and aggregation (

Java, Spring, Python, backend

) and

Business Prime sign-up process and engagement rendering (

React, Next.js,

Typescript, frontend

) following

AWS (Lambda, DynamoDB, EC2, CloudWatch,

ECS, S3, IAM, Evidently, CloudWatch, SNS, SQS)

best practices.

AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certication

(currently undertaking).

amazon.com/businessprime

European Union, Horizon 2020

Senior Software Engineer working on the design and implementation of a large

volume data collector and aggregator (using

Node.js, Express, Elasticsearch,

Kibana, MongoDB, Apache Storm, Apache Kafka, Travis and Docker

among

other technologies) for the

European Union, Horizon 2020

(

source code

, 193

commits).

Responsible for data visualization and implementing a customized dashboards

portal for stakeholders using

Kibana, Node.js, Express, Angular, D3 and

jQuery

(

source code

, 155 commits).

Implemented the data format and processing for the distributed queue (

Kafka

)

using

MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Mocha, Promises

(

source code

, 297 commits).

Leading the design and implementation of an

Authentication and

Authorization

module capable of managing users, permissions and proxy

applications using

Node.js, Express, Redis, Mongoose, Passport and Http-

proxy

(

source code

, 176 commits).

cordis.europa.eu/project/id/644187

Spanish Government, e-Madrid

Software Engineer developing educational video games for Windows using

Unity3D

and

e-UCM

. Additionally, developing livestream web-portals

using

Vaadin

(Java).

Responsible for the implementation of the Mokap in-house-editor (a

multiplatform authoring tool for the creation of games and simulations)

Android using: LibGdx, OpenGL, Android API (

source code

, 938 commits).

Created Cytopathology Medical Training: a medical training

simulator

(79

commits) and

authoring tool

(61 commits) in collaboration with the

department of Computer Science from

Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)

and

Harvard Medical School (Boston)

Implemented and tested ve game-like simulations using the in-house Analytics

environment using Unity3D (

First Aid Game

Quiz Demo

, Space-Shump, Silly

Birds, Omega Mage).

e-ucm.es

Random Bot Games

Software Engineer developing Android video games using

LibGDX

(Java),

OpenGL and native Android API.

Created (designed, developed, tested and published) ve Android games (

IOX

Angry Monsters

Bubble Balls

Mini Animals

and multiplayer game

Meme Ping

Pong

) at

Random Bot Games

Spanish start-up.

EDUCATION

PhD, Computer Science

PhD in Learning Analytics (2016 – 2019

not completed

) - Published

10 research

papers

Research interests include the study of

educational videogames and their

application in the eld of medicine

, as well as the study of Learning Analytics

techniques to improve their ecacy and their validation as an educational tool.

e-ucm.es/people/dan-cristian-roratu

MSc, Computer Science

Master's in Computer Science at the Complutense University of Madrid (

ranked

2nd in Spain, 144th in the global 2023 rating

) is aimed at providing the knowledge

required to be competitive in the Software Engineering market. Composed of 90

ECTS

, it builds on top of the Bachelor's in Computer Science focusing on trending

technologies (Event Driven Architectures, Systems Design, IOT and IA among

others).

informatica.ucm.es/master-en-ingenieria-informatica

Bachelor, Computer Science

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science composed of subjects focused on teaching

Software Engineering best practices. See

full leaet

with detailed subject

information.

informatica.ucm.es

PUBLICATIONS

Validation of a Cyberbullying Serious Game Using Game

Analytics

doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2018.2879354

From heterogeneous activiteis to unied analytics dashboards

doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2019.8725222

Using Game Technology to Automatize Neuropsychological Tests

and Research in Active Aging

dx.doi.org/10.1145/3284869.3284887

Multi-level Game Learning Analytics for Serious Games

doi.org/10.1109/VS-Games.2018.8493435

Learning analytics for location-based serious games

doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2018.8363365

Developing gamied interactive content for medical training in

cytopathology

riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/4777

Design and Development of a Serious Game for Medical Training in

Cytopathology

doi.org/10.1145/2896338.2897731

Tools and Approaches for Simplifying Serious Games Development in

Educational Settings

doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON.2016.7474707

Senior Software Engineer

Expert

Hack For Good 2016 (Hackathon)

National Spanish Ballet 2016

(Hackathon)

Amazon

(June 30,

2023)

Google

(August 31,

2015)

Worked together

Direct manager

Worked together

Software Development Engineer II

(October 01, 2019 - Present)

Senior Software Engineer

(June 01, 2014 - September 30, 2019)

Software Engineer

(September 01, 2013 - May 31, 2014)

Software Engineer (Android)

(January 01, 2012 - August 31, 2013)

Complutense University of Madrid

(January 01, 2016 - July 31, 2019)

Learning Analytics

Complutense University of Madrid

(September 01, 2014 - December 31, 2015)

Software Engineering

Complutense University of Madrid

(September 01, 2010 - May 31, 2014)

IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies (Journal)

(March 31,

2020)

IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference

(April 11, 2019)

4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies

for Social Good

(October 31,

2018)

10th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for

Serious Applications

(September 07,

2018)

IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference

(April 20, 2018)

1st International Workshop on Gamication and Games for Learning

(June 07,

2017)

ACM Digital Heath

(April 13,

2016)

IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference

(April 11,

2016)