Ion Draganel

• Remaining Hands-On, with .Net development
• Define company strategy, secure partnerships and remain active in code reviews and feature implementation on a greenfield SaaS built in .NET 8 and Azure.
• Negotiate supplier contracts and introduce risk-management practices that strengthen operational resilience.
• Hire and mentor a distributed team while fostering an engineering culture centred on clean code and knowledge-sharing.

• Improved teamwork by adopting Agile through Scrum.
• Thoroughly checked team deliverables for technical accuracy.
• Managed IT to meet strategic goals with management assistance.
• Managed recruitment to develop a strong team.
• Guided teams to meet project goals, acting as a bridge between management and engineers.
• Oversaw process R&D, boosting efficiency and innovation.

• Technical leader for Fusion Options, a module that generates over £300,000 in daily revenue.
• Improved the pace of order execution and the resilience of the system by re-architecting back-end services in .NET with RabbitMQ and Solace.
• Implemented blue-green deployments (TeamCity + Ansible), resulting in a reduction of release downtime to minutes.
• Led department-wide knowledge-sharing sessions and mentored engineers.

• Led the Fusion Options stream from inception; developed high-throughput message consumers and pricing/risk logic in .NET + RabbitMQ/Solace;

• The matching engine's release confidence was significantly enhanced by the expansion of automated test coverage to include unit, smoke, and BDD-style scenarios.

• Improved performance and reduced technical debt by designing new .NET components and maintaining/modernising over 15 microservices.

• Resolved production incidents and created change-control guidelines later adopted team-wide.
• Collaborated with domain experts to align technical changes with market requirements.

• Implemented initial React components and unit tests for the new trading UI.

• Created responsive, WCAG-compliant UI components from Figma mock-ups using .NET / Angular.
• RESTful APIs and business-logic layers were built and secured to ensure client-server data flow.
• Optimised SQL queries, indexes, and caching for fast response times and high-volume transactions.
• Design, product, and DevOps teams collaborated to turn business goals into production-ready code, speeding release cycles.

• Automated 100 + reporting workflows, cutting generation time and improving accuracy.
• Wrote performance-orientated T-SQL stored procedures and maintained critical banking systems.
• Maintained and upgraded the bank's IT infrastructure to ensure mission-critical system stability.

• Tracked financial KPIs, identified risks, and mobilised cross-functional teams to grow and maintain profitability.
• Trained branch personnel and conducted analyses of financial-risk metrics to facilitate mitigation planning.
• Customised reports and oversaw system parameters, including user access and commission regulations.