Ion Mudreac

DataFusion Systems, part of the Lumine Group (previously under Nokia/Siemens), is a global leader in lawful interception and intelligence technologies. The company provides a comprehensive suite of solutions for government and security agencies, including the Intelligence Platform (IPF) for communication data analysis and visualization, the Data Retention System (DRS) for regulatory compliance, and the Monitoring Center (MCng) for lawful traffic interception. Additional offerings include Internet Traffic Analysis (ITA), Tactical Solutions, and Geo-location systems.

• ›Technology Leadership: Defined and executed technology and product strategy, delivering secure, scalable, and innovative intelligence solutions
• ›Global Team Leadership: Built and led high-performing cross-regional teams across EMEA and APAC, driving collaboration and technical excellence
• ›Innovation & R&D: Integrated cutting-edge technologies, including LLM, ASR, and Big Data analytics, to enhance product capabilities
• ›AI/ML Strategy & Delivery: Pioneered on-premises NVIDIA GPU LLM/ASR pipeline for multilingual intelligence — speech-to-text, language identification, transcription, diarization, and translation — eliminating cloud dependency for classified intelligence operations
• ›Engineering Excellence: Introduced (XP) practices, TDD, ATDD, and Pair Programming to improve code quality, delivery speed, and collaboration
• ›AI Development Engineering Practices: Implemented Context-Driven AI development leveraging LLMs and AI agentic flows using GitHub Copilot Chat with IDE integration, streamlining productivity and innovation across teams with code reviews, code generation, testing, and documentation
• ›Intelligence Platform Enhancements: Delivered next-generation modules for IP traffic and data context capture, protocol analysis, and OTTA
• ›CI/CD Transformation: Designed and deployed fully automated CI/CD pipeline, moving from Legacy to GitLab with build, test, and deployment workflows
• ›Big Data Analytics: Built analytics platform using ClickHouse, enabling multi-source data aggregation, correlation, and visualization for intelligence
• ›Observability: Implemented modern observability stack (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, OpenTelemetry) for real-time monitoring and performance insights
• ›Agile Transformation: Reorganized product and technology into cross-functional squads, aligning teams and delivery pipelines with strategic goals
• ›Product Security & Governance: Owned security architecture for intelligence products and customer deployments — application security, network hardening, and data sovereignty compliance across EMEA/APAC ($14M budget spanning engineering, infrastructure, and AI/ML R&D)
• ›AI-First Engineering Culture: Championed AI-augmented development across 80+ engineers — GitHub Copilot, AI code review, automated test generation, and agentic workflows, reducing development cycle time by ~30%

Series D AI fintech valued at $2B backed by SoftBank Vision Fund and Warburg Pincus. Partnered with investors on technology due diligence and growth scaling strategy. AI-driven eKYC, fraud detection, credit scoring, and Atome — Southeast Asia's largest BNPL platform. SaFi Bank: Philippines digital banking.

• ›Venture-Backed Execution: Established SaFi Bank's entire technology organization from zero — recruited and structured teams for core banking, risk management, fraud detection, and mobile application development to deliver digital financial services to unbanked/underbanked populations
• ›Back-end Development: Core Banking microservices, Kotlin, Micronaut, Temporal.io, Kafka Pub/Sub, gRPC
• ›Front-end Development: Flutter/Dart cross-platform Android/iOS, passwordless authentication and authorization, PKI
• ›DevOps/SRE: Cloud native GCP and GKE, deployed as IaC supporting Core Banking Thought Machine
• ›Application Security: Compliance with BSP regulatory requirements, using Okta, IAM, Cloudflare WAF/CDN
• ›Internal Security: Cloudflare Zero Trust model using HWD YubiKey WebAuth method
• ›Desktop Support and Call Center: JAMF device management and Genesys with EDGE for call centers
• ›AI/ML Product Leadership: Directed AI strategy and MLOps infrastructure — eKYC (facial recognition, liveness detection), real-time fraud detection, and credit scoring models powering BNPL for millions of users across Southeast Asia (BigQuery, Vortex.ai, Kafka, Alloy DB, Advance.ai OneStop Platform)
• ›LLM Integration: Drove LLM adoption (GPT-3.5, Codex) for customer support automation and developer productivity, reducing call center handling time and accelerating feature delivery
• ›Cloud-Native Architecture: Orchestrated 170+ engineers building Core Banking microservices (Kotlin, Micronaut, Temporal.io, Kafka) on GCP/GKE with Thought Machine core banking engine
• ›Security Architecture & Compliance: Designed end-to-end security architecture (application, network, physical) and achieved BSP regulatory compliance, deploying Cloudflare Zero Trust with YubiKey WebAuthn
• ›Multicultural Engineering Leadership: Recruited and led 170+ engineers across nine distributed hubs (India, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, China, UAE, Japan, Vietnam, EU), fostering a unified engineering culture

Singtel is the largest telecommunications company in the Asia Pacific region. Singtel Enterprise provides services to businesses and government agencies including 5G, cloud, cybersecurity, IoT, and voice/collaboration.

• ›Led Development and platform support for SaaS Singtel Platform (mybusiness.singtel.com) — .Net and PHP based SaaS B2B portal
• ›Led Development for Online eShop platform (99sme.sg) — PHP based e-Commerce B2C portal
• ›Cloud billing for AWS, Azure, and GCP using NumPy, Pandas, AWS Lambda, S3, Vue.js, AWS Cognito, API Gateway
• ›Cloud resale and AIOps portal (Matrix) running on GCP/GKE, Pulumi Python IaC, Nix
• ›Led Day 1, Day 2 Cloud Solution Architecture and Delivery teams covering Financial, Telecom, Transport, and Government industries
• ›Solution Architecture for Cloud Migration "Landing Zone", Multi-Cloud Integration and Management, Hybrid Cloud Solutions

Joint venture startup between Singtel, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros. offering OTT video service in Asia. Served 90+ million users across Asia Pacific, competing with Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu.

• ›Implemented new microservice architecture with Monorepo and Trunk-based development on GitHub Actions
• ›Implemented Single-Sign-On for AWS, GitHub, Elastic, Artifactory, and G-Suite. IaC Terraform, Pulumi on AWS and GCP
• ›Migrated to Elastic Cloud from in-house Open Source ELK for in-app search engine and log/metrics aggregator
• ›Migrated binary repository from S3 to JFrog Artifactory, AWS ECS to Kubernetes with Istio service mesh
• ›Big Data, AI, Data Pipelines based on Apache Airflow, AWS Athena, Lambda Functions

First digital bank in Asia, based in Hong Kong. Joint venture between Standard Chartered Bank, PCCW, HKT, and Trip.com. Operating under virtual banking license granted by HKMA. Mox Bank offers a range of banking services and products, including savings accounts, loans, and payment solutions, all accessible through its mobile app.

• ›Founding Engineering Leadership: Built Mox Bank's technology organization from zero as founding engineer — recruited 120+ engineers and established all technical functions (Cloud Engineering, Data/AI, DevOps/SRE, Security)
• ›Cloud Engineering on Google Cloud and Amazon AWS with IaC Terraform
• ›Microservice messaging bus with Kafka Operator
• ›Core banking with Thought Machine
• ›CI/CD with Istio, Spinnaker
• ›Big Data/ML with BigQuery, Bigtable, Dataflow, Google ML toolkit
• ›Security with HashiCorp Vault
• ›Monitoring: Stackdriver, Grafana/Prometheus, ELK

Global banking and financial services company operating in 60+ countries. Managed Enterprise Data Management (EDM) program to manage its data assets across the organization, with key components including Data Governance, Data Architecture, Data Quality, Data Integration, and Metadata Management.

• ›Enterprise Data Management Integration (EDMI) on Software AG OpenShift, Solace
• ›API Gateway Kong and developer portal (developer.sc.com)
• ›Robotics Process Automation (RPA) with Openspan and Blueprism
• ›AI/ML Instabase Platform (instabase.com)
• ›Blockchain Payment system Ripple XRP
• ›Enterprise Content Management (ECM): eOps-based workflow and Image Scanning
• ›Reference Data Management (RDM): Build/Manage Central Platform for Core Reference Data
• ›Integration Services: MQ/MFT/TLM/MDIS
• ›Enterprise Workflow Management: GEMS, CERS, CERSTA, iPROMPT, GCC Dashboard

• ›Led global eFX low-latency algorithmic trading and FX Options application management across APAC
• ›Led FOREX, Money Markets, and Rates Teams for 1st and 2nd Trading Application Support in Asia Pacific Region
• ›eFX connectivity business support and FX Murex Cash and Currency Asia Pacific Regional lead

• ›Front and Back Office FICC and GWM application management
• ›Problem and Incident Manager
• ›Release Management and Roll-Out Support
• ›Vendor Application Management (TRAM, Musketeer, MarginMan) for FX, Treasury, Equity, Bond, Commodity trading desks, Credit & Lending

• ›Implemented Project Management solution Redmine, running on Linux, PostgreSQL 8, Ruby on Rails
• ›Developed Incident Report Database System on Ruby, Java, JDBC, Oracle 8, Solaris 10, Tomcat
• ›Source Control Management with SVN, Mercurial
• ›Created web-based bug tracking system (Mantis) and knowledge management Wiki on Solaris 10, MySQL5, and PHP5

• ›HA & MPP Clustering Apache2, PHP5, and MySQL5 DB Clustering for mobile multimedia content delivery
• ›Financial Industry: MUFG, Shinsei Bank, KDDI, Rakuten Bank — Integration iFlex FlexCube for Core Banking, Branch Banking, Internet Banking, Mobile Banking
• ›Mail Servers and LOG analyzer management — Integration Qmail, Postfix, Red Hat Linux 4ES

• ›Developed Business Strategy for the entire IT department
• ›CMS/CMF Intranet System Research & Implementation

• ›Course: Investment Efficiency in IT&C and Mathematical Economic Modelling
• ›Published multiple research papers on IT investment efficiency and e-business