Software engineer and cross-cultural strategist. Financial systems and full-stack products by trade; a Romanian and French creative practice built alongside them, with the same attention to detail.
Product and systems engineering for a global consulting practice, plus the international market-strategy work that comes with helping organizations find their footing in the U.S. Most of that attention now goes to ForeCraft, the financial platform built for fractional CFOs.
See the work →Octavia Studios and Maison de Culture — Romanian and French, taught and lived. A creative practice for anyone else building a life across more than one country.
Enter the studio →Built API-driven workflow automation that cut manual operations by 30% and returned eight hours a week to the team, plus the internal reporting tools that lifted qualified-lead conversion by 40%.
Rebuilt a university department's React application end to end — organic traffic up 60%, release failures down 40% once proper CI/CD was in place.
Built Python and SQL ETL pipelines to clean and structure CRM data, and shipped the analytics dashboards that made decision-making measurably faster across the team.
Engineered DTEBot, a Flask-based ticket-classification API using NLP pipelines — processing time down from five minutes to under one, manual classification errors down 60%.
A financial data platform for fractional CFOs, integrating accounting APIs and structured pipelines into KPI dashboards, variance analysis, and reporting workflows that once took days. It has cut financial review effort by 40% for its early customers.
A recommendation engine on Python ETL pipelines and a PostgreSQL schema — 50+ users, 90% retention, sub-200ms p95 latency.
Built for Maison de Culture: a Flask API orchestrating LLM workflows, with telemetry pipelines that cut debugging time by 30%.
A compliance microservice generating structured, auditable outputs — manual audit time cut in half.
A workflow-automation platform helping small businesses find and fix inefficiencies — inbound lead conversion doubled in pilot.
A Romanian language, culture, and aesthetic-living brand, built for readers who couldn't find content about Romania that felt this considered. Language notes and living rituals — the same eye for detail, just pointed somewhere softer.
@octaviastudios.ro →A cross-cultural consulting practice bridging the U.S., France, Romania, and Moldova — cultural training and market-entry support for European businesses making sense of Arizona. Began as an honors thesis; now a standing practice.
Work with the studio →"The degree was Computer Information Systems and Business Law, at Barrett Honors College — but the thesis is the one that stayed with me, the one where the business side finally met the cultures and languages that actually mean something to me."
The work moves between two registers — the precision of software and systems, and my creative cultural projects, a Romanian and French practice built alongside them, with the same attention to detail. The long-term plan is location independence across Arizona, France, and Romania: one practice, three homes.
Off the clock: usually on a tennis court, rewatching the same three runway shows, always thinking about booking the next trip.