Staff Engineer & Technical Lead
Vasile Ovidiu Ichim
Software architect and backend engineer with 7+ years building data-intensive systems — distributed pipelines, multi-tenant SaaS and AI products. Co-founded Valerdat as a founding engineer, re-architected the platform and grew into CTO. Previously at Inditex and IBM.
Barcelona, Spain · Featured in VIA Empresa
Worked with
Experience
Valerdat
Co-founder & CTO
Founding engineer who re-architected the platform end to end — 10TB+ daily with Spark, sub-5% MAPE forecasting, and LLM-assisted purchasing. Stepped up to CTO as the most transversal engineer on the team.
Inditex
Python Engineer
Built the strategic planning platform for Inditex's Security Department — Django services on AWS for enterprise supply-chain operations.
IBM
Middleware & App Ops
Deployed and maintained applications for CTTI (Catalan public administration) — WebSphere, WebLogic, Tomcat, Apache and Nginx on RedHat Linux and Windows Server.
Dataxip SL
Software & Systems Engineer
First role and best school — servers, networking (MikroTik), Linux services, Sage 50 ERP extensions and Python web apps.
Selected Work
Platform, data & infrastructure at scale.
Core Competencies
Leadership
Software Architecture
System design at scale
Technical Mentoring
Growing engineers, raising the bar
Product Thinking
Innovation and product strategy
Engineering
Backend & Distributed Systems
Python, Django, distributed services
Data Engineering & AI
Demand forecasting, ML & ETL pipelines
Cloud & DevOps
AWS, Docker, Kubernetes
Tech Stack
Education
B.Sc. Computer Science
The Open University
Algorithms, system architecture and software engineering.
Expected 2027Languages
Systems & Security Research
Personal experiments in low-level internals, security and automation — the reason I enjoy building robust software.
Windows Kernel Drivers
Kernel-mode driver experiments in C++ exploring user/kernel communication.
Injection & Overlays
Memory access, DLL loading and real-time overlay rendering research.
Anti-Cheat Internals
Reverse-engineering game memory and detection techniques.
Platform Automation
Automation tooling exploring third-party APIs, rate limits and interaction patterns.
