About Daniela

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Passionate software engineer, with comprehensive 5 years of experience in information technology: operating systems, data analysis and system security. Versatile to adapt to different technologies and working environments. Communicate well the challenges and findings within a technical project. Effective at having cross-teams collaboration and explaining a project for audience with a broad expertise. Two years experience in a technical lead position.
Education

Polytechnic University of Bucharest

Oct 2010 – Sep 2013 Master of Science: “Management of Information Technology”
Thesis Dynamic service configuration in the CERN Cloud [link]

Politecnico di Milano

Oct 2010 – Oct 2012 Master of Science: “Software Engineer”
Thesis Linux kernel attack surface measurement [link]

Polytechnic University of Bucharest

Oct 2006 – July 2010 Bachelor of Science: “Software Engineer”
Thesis Running Blobseer inside a Nimbus Cloud [link]
Experience

Appway Zurich October 2015 - Present

ETH Zurich Research Associate, Oct 2013 – September 2015

IBM Research Austin Research Associate, Sep 2014 – Dec 2014

CERN Technical Student, Sep 2012 – Sep 2013

IBM Research Zurich Great Minds Internship, Mar – Sep 2012

CERN OpenLab Internship, July – Sep 2011

Jinny Software Romania IT Manager, July 2008 – Mar 2010

Talks and publications

CAPI/Flash+PackedObjects, novel off-heap solution for scaling-up complex Java applications [link] IBM Research Zurich, Mar 2015


CERN Cloud: Dynamic Service Configuration [link] FrOSCon, Germany, Sep 2013


Experiences of a CERN internship [link] ETH Systems Group, Nov 2013


Comprehensive list of publications is here: HTML tutorial

Initiatives and awards

Anita Borg Institute Scholarship to attend Grace Hopper Conference, Houston 2015

Grace Hopper Conference Project Manager OSD GHC Conference 2015.

IBM Research Zurich Student scholarship Great minds program.

National Scholarship Bilateral agreement between Italy and Romania.

Mentorship Mentor for “Learn IT Girl” program- mentor for "Learn IT girl".

ProTV Romania April 2013, Interview for the national TV ProTV

IXIA Challenge Contest Start-up business plans national competition in IT field.

CERN CMS Visit Main organizer for a 40 people visit to CERN