Golang Developer
Aspiring Pentester
Career-pivoter with a decade of cross-sector experience in consulting, project management, and digital strategy, now making a deliberate and committed pivot to cybersecurity and software quality engineering. In 2024 alone, completed two full coding programmes (Python and Go), built and shipped a live production web application that won first place across an entire cohort, and began active preparation for the ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) examination (November 2026). Long term committed to the following career path: QA | Pentester | Red Team. Multilingual communication, hands-on experience with Jira, Asana, Python libraries, and web integration. Have managed technical teams and developer workflows, and have published a novel.
Experiece: 6 months
Yearly salary: $86,000
Hourly rate: $0
Nationality: 🇷🇴 Romania
Residency: 🇲🇩 Moldova
Experience
Consultant / Project Manager
Project Iris Consulting 2019 - 2020
Led tech delivery projects in Sprints using Agile methodology, coordinating UX designers, developers, marketing, and legal, managing JIRA-style developer tickets initiated on GitHub. Defined project scope and costing frameworks; managed client billing, liaison, and account relationships across 2 to 6 person delivery teams, under budget. Designed user journey flows and conducted user research interviews to produce informed personas, applied UX testing methodology. Worked individually with each developer to define deliverables and validate output against requirements, an early form of acceptance testing.
Startups Consultant / PM
SearchSmartly · CodeYourFuture · LGBT Foundation 2017 - 2020
Collaborated with a Python developer to validate and process 30,000 data points, retaining 96% of business partners, writing a recommendation for the business. Led full website migration from Drupal to WordPress: content audit, restructuring, and UAT-style review of the live site before sign-off. Implemented GDPR data-handling policies and optimised user journeys through structured user interviews.
Business Development Manager
HabberTec (IBM Business Partner) 2015 - 2016
Operated daily in IBM enterprise systems and CRM platforms; coordinated technical marketing campaigns for IBM Business Process Management software, securing 50% co-funding from IBM. Delivered webinars and led a team in a hackathon to build an AI-powered NHS triage app using IBM Watson API.
Conference Producer
London Business Conferences Group 2014 - 2015
Researched Oil & Gas topics via C-suite interviews; ideated and delivered conference agendas, secured speakers, and developed sponsorship generating £200K revenue per event.
Founder
Ekliss.com - Fairtrade Fashion Brand 2012 - 2014
Founded a fairtrade scarf brand sourcing natural fibres from India; built e-commerce site on PrestaShop with SEO strategy, B2C sales management, and Amazon affiliate integration.
Founder
Expressa-te.com - English Teaching School 2011 - 2014
Founded and scaled an English language school with 15 freelance teachers; landed the website on page one of Google organic search for ‘profesor de inglés’ through SEO, Google Ads, and PPC strategy.
Account Executive
Right Track Advertising 2005 - 2006
Managed accounts for consumer electronics launches, magazine campaigns, and a Western Union membership card rollout across all seven Emirates.
Skills
git
python
golang
english