# Nicu Listana

> Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/nicu

My name is Nicu and I am a software engineer based in San Francisco Bay Area. I am currently researching and building small LLMs (<1B parameters) for local (non-cloud) computing. If you are a graduate student looking to collaborate let’s chat!

My mission is to write code at the intersection of compassion and community. Opportunities and roles that I enjoy have allowed me to offer skills I am most proficient with while having the capability to explore and think outside the box.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Shared components and frontend core services engineering
- Refactored core frontend services responsible for prerendering html and static api generation during build-time allowing Bank LoB to pull content data within a separate platform during run-time while keeping content in sync
- Developed proof-of-concept for allowing public shared components to be re-usable within a separate, authenticated platform resulting in additional retargeting opportunities for our marketing team
- Trained and mentored other engineers on Angular's best practices and shipped enhancements to code generators to help onboard new engineers quicker

### Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area
Published shared libraries and components to reduce overall time to deploy new marketing and product landing pages.

- Reduced vendor lock-in by refactoring web platform services while prioritizing resiliency during migration
- Optimized marketing page load-time and SEO performance using static page pre-rendering and
webpack module federation
- Facilitated technical discussions across software engineering teams responsible for shipping
code across multiple lines of businesses to socialize best-practices, solve production issues, and uncover new product opportunities.
- Technologies: Nx, Angular, NPM, Artifactory, Webpack
- Team: Platform

### Software Engineer @ Grailed
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Developed features which improve trust and safety for buyers and sellers.
- Decreased PayPal fraud case rate through improving usability and form validation
for buyers and sellers.
- Increased platform security by implementing custom react hooks and OAuth to prevent
unauthorized API client access.
- Improved developer productivity by leveraging git hooks and custom ESLint rules.
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, Redux, Algolia, Git
- Team: Trust

### Software Engineer @ IDEO
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
Collaborated alongside IDEO's cross-functional products team to help organizations build more innovative teams and cultures.

- Owned and built core features for flagship product, Shape, an open-innovation software used by thousands of organizations including Mitsui, IKEA, and IDEO
- Implemented scalable code while resolving performance bottlenecks for the entire application stack
- Increased landing page conversions while reducing in-app churn using Google Tag Manager 
- Generated insights that inform the product roadmap using Redash and Google Analytics
- Leveraged code-sharing platforms such as Bit, NPM, and RubyGems to share logic between codebases
- Technologies: Ruby on Rails, React, MobX, Heroku, Firestore, Tag Manager, Google Analytics
- Team: Products

### Associate Software Engineer @ Major League Baseball
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Streamlined MLB Statcast data API operations by developing internal and public-facing endpoints and tooling.
• Developed API endpoints which served new player and scouting prospect data for MLB.com using AWS Elasticache and Spring Boot microservices.
• Improved cloud deployments and service uptime by migrating API services and tooling from internal datacenter to AWS.
• Improved data entry operations by improving internal database editor tool.
• Mitigated security risks by migrating authentication tools and internal APIs using
OAuth2, Okta, SSL, and 2FA.
- Technologies: Java, Javascript, React, MobX, Spring, SQL, AWS, LDAP, OAuth, Okta
- Team: Data


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
San Francisco State University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/niculistana

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Last updated: 2026-03-29