Sorin Panduru

Fashion Days · Bucharest, Romania

• • Lead a 60-person engineering org spanning product, infrastructure, data & analytics, mobile, and QA — 10 direct reports
• • Designed overall cloud architecture and led full on-premise → cloud migration — actively participated in implementation including CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes migrations, and infrastructure design; eliminated hardware maintenance overhead and accelerated delivery cycles
• • Own annual Black Friday delivery — hands-on performance testing and capacity planning for 20× BAU traffic spikes, coordinating across engineering, infrastructure, and commercial teams under high-pressure timelines; consistent clean delivery record across multiple years
• • Drove tech stack modernisation from PHP to Go on Kubernetes across all new services, improving developer ownership and deployment velocity
• • Actively conduct architecture reviews and technical design sign-off across all engineering teams — maintaining hands-on technical engagement at the director level
• • Actively piloting GenAI engineering workflows — experimenting with AI coding tools and context-aware automation to improve developer productivity across teams
• • Restructured engineering org around Engineering Manager and Architect roles — resolved delivery bottlenecks and knowledge concentration risk; resulted in faster shipping and measurably improved quality
• • Negotiate engineering capacity trade-offs with commercial and product leadership — secured dedicated bandwidth for infrastructure and platform stability alongside feature delivery, preventing short-term pressure from compounding long-term technical risk
• • Own infrastructure security posture, incident response, and data protection/privacy engineering across the platform

Fashion Days · Bucharest, Romania

• • Led 2 cross-functional product/engineering teams (14 people) — owned both product direction and technical execution for search, listings, and personalisation
• • Replaced legacy commercial search & listings solution with a fully in-house built platform — led development end-to-end from architecture to delivery
• • Built personalisation capabilities from scratch: recommendation widgets and dynamic content that transformed a previously static shopping experience into a data-driven discovery engine

Fashion Days · Bucharest, Romania

• • Built visual similarity search and recommendation engines for the fashion catalogue — among the top CTR-performing engines on the platform to this day
• • Hands-on ML engineering across the full stack: model training, large-scale vector similarity search, and production deployment — while leading a small team

Fashion Days · Bucharest, Romania

• • Built ecommerce backend systems (ERP, PIM, inventory, WMS integrations) and progressed to leading the backend teams that owned them