# Rares Mihalcea

> Software Engineer @Meta

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/rares

Passionate mid-level SWE with a range of experiences including tiny microsaas self-published apps, government projects, leading financial industry firms and FAANG.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | London Area, United Kingdom

### Associate Software Engineer @ BlackRock
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | London, England, United Kingdom
• Full-stack Java and Angular engineer for 3 liability-driven investing tools used to oversee billions of dollars in assets. Played a pivotal role in developing a cutting-edge high-scale portfolio oversight product and delivered it from architecture design sessions with 20+ stakeholders to several production deployments
• Pioneered the adoption of microfrontends within the firm. Influenced the underlying host platform and published 3 out of the first 4 complex MFEs to production one of which was converted single-handedly
• Propagated the adoption of BDD in Cypress and Cucumber across several teams by researching, implementing and instructing best practices while integrating them into Azure DevOps pipelines
• Mentored several batches of new graduates and helped create and enforce team-wide processes and standards that significantly increased the quality and reliability of our releases while decreasing bugs in production

### Software Engineer Analyst @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom
• Full-stack Python and React developer on the firm’s main global trade management platform monorepo
• Responsible for developing and maintaining 3 tools and several frameworks aimed at onboarding legacy markets software into a new ecosystem. Product owner for a Jira telemetry service designed for management insight

### Software Engineering Summer Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | London, England, United Kingdom
• Helped develop an emotion-based diary webapp for The Children’s Society
• Large contribution to the design of the product in Adobe XD and front-end implementation using Angular

### Industrial Placement Technology Analyst @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | London, United Kingdom
• Full stack developer in an AGILE global team using a suite of technologies including Angular, Jasmine, MariaDB, Express.js, Electron, the Kandy external API and many others
• Built a production-ready voice and video soft-phone application designed to replace desk phones and existing communication applications within the firm
• Responsible for writing the entirety of the front-end UI, the majority of the client-side and Electron layer code
• Selected as tech lead for a new internal e-business card app project

### Intern @ Guvernul României
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Bucharest, Romania
•	Internship at the Government of Romania, The Authority for Digitalising Romania
•	Used a multitude of web development frameworks such as Laravel and Materialize in order to single-handedly create a new version of the e-guvernare.ro website which will soon be released to the public. The new version vastly improves the performance of the website and the user experience
•	Developed my networking skills through the events I attended and the relationships I have formed, but also because of the talk that I organized on Data Protection and Cyber Security
•	Created several reports detailing UX and UI problems within the company's products as well as ways to improve them

### Spring Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom
•	Gained a comprehensive understanding of the way in which J.P. Morgan's technology employees operate as well as a chance to familiarize myself with the company culture and the working environment by shadowing current analysts and associates
•	Attended several lectures, presentations, and workshops that helped me develop my communication skills and introduced me to new concepts such as AGILE development


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Warwick

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science with Intercalated Year
University of Warwick


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/rares
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Last updated: 2026-04-05