AUTOSAR software architect, automotive cybersecurity ISO/SAE 21434 (vHSM, SecOC, TARA), functional safety ISO 26262 ASIL-D, TÜV-certified, 14+ yrs
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AUTOSAR
Funktionale Sicherheit
Automotive Cybersecurity
IEC 26262
HSM
Embedded C
UDS
Automotive-SPICE
TARA
HARA
vector Tools
Multi-Layer Software-Architecture
RTOS
Python
Data Analyst
MISRA-C
ASIL-D
ISO 21434
RTE
Elektrobit
CANoe
Softwarearchitektur
Hungarian
native
Romanian
professional
English
professional
German
limited

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

9 months
2025-11 - now

Product Development & Professional Development

Independent Consultant
Independent Consultant
Embedded Prototyping, AI/LLM, Product Development
  • Completed TÜV SÜD certification program ? Automotive Cyber Security Practitioner and FSCP ISO 26262 Level 1, Functional Safety Engineer (both exams passed).
  • AI/LLM engineering ramp-up ? preparing for the NVIDIA NCA-GENL Generative AI certification
  • AI product development
  • Built and shipped an end-to-end web product ? architecture, custom plugins, DevOps
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
7 years 5 months
2019-03 - now

Independent projects

Founders
Founders
Development of e-commerce and digital health side projects alongside full-time employment.
3 years 6 months
2022-05 - 2025-10

Braking ECU Platforms

Software Architect & Embedded Security Consultant - B2B Software Architecture AUTOSAR ASIL-D ...
Software Architect & Embedded Security Consultant - B2B
  • Integrated and tested vHSM with the Vector AUTOSAR crypto stack (Csm, CryIf, SecOC) for
  • ASIL-D braking ECUs under ISO/SAE 21434.
  • Implemented OEM-requirements-driven key-management and provisioning software for the Ford BEV and Raptor brakingprograms ? now shipping on OEM vehicles.
  • Merged the commercial-vehicle and passenger-car AUTOSAR platforms into one unified stack in 6 months, drivingarchitecture, software design, and implementation changes across 150+ software components
  • Directed the full-AUTOSAR migration of a legacy braking-ECU codebase - 150+ components, thousands ofports/interfaces, and the real-time architecture, synchronized with the evolving production codebase and ISO 26262 compliance.
  • Defined and rolled out memory- and CPU-optimization strategies across 3 customer projects; configured and optimizedRTOS and RTE, including cross-core data-transfer strategies.
Software Architecture AUTOSAR ASIL-D vHSM SecOC Key Management ISO/SAE 21434 ASPICE ISO 26262
ZF
Cluj-Napoca (Romania (Remote))
8 months
2021-10 - 2022-05

E/E Domain Architecture

Systems Engineer & Software Architect - B2B E/E Concept Studies Enterprise Architect HARA ...
Systems Engineer & Software Architect - B2B
  • Produced 12 E/E architecture concept studies - topology trade-offs with preliminary HARA and TARA ? spanningconstruction, agriculture, material-handling, marine, transport-refrigeration, and building-energy platforms, architectedfor cross-domain reuse.
  • Delivered the complete ASPICE-aligned software architecture (Enterprise Architect) for a charging-gateway ECU bridginglegacy and fast-charging systems - components, interfaces, dynamic behavior, resource budgets, and FuSa-relevantsignal paths - shipped to the client.
E/E Concept Studies Enterprise Architect HARA TARA ASPICE Systems Engineering
FEV
Cluj (Romania (Remote))
5 years 9 months
2016-01 - 2021-09

Provision of a unified MCAL platform

Embedded Software Engineer ? Project Manager(2018) ? Competence Center Manager & DeliveryManager (2019) Delivery Management P&L / Portfolio Contract Negotiation ...
Embedded Software Engineer ? Project Manager(2018) ? Competence Center Manager & DeliveryManager (2019)
  • Led delivery of a unified MCAL platform across 60+ Renesas microcontrollers to ASIL-B (SEooC, ISO 26262) supporting AUTOSAR 3.x /4.x ? coordinating 6 international teams (Japan, India, Italy, Germany, UK, Vietnam) and 15 engineers.
  • Directly managed a department of embedded engineers across multiple projects; owned budgeting, forecasting, anddelivery-model optimization for a ~?8M business unit ? meeting margin targets every year.
  • Owned the SPI MCAL module through the full V-model ASPICE lifecycle, including Perl-based ARXML/code-generationtooling and a custom ECU calibration data transformer (a2l, Vector toolchain) for thousands of parameters.
  • Negotiated contracts for AUTOSAR development, HIL/SIL testing, and functional-safety consulting; owned recruitment, hiring, TISAX implementation and business development (lead generation, proposals) across the delivery organization.
Delivery Management P&L / Portfolio Contract Negotiation MCAL AUTOSAR TISAX Business Development ASPICE
NTT DATA Romania
Cluj-Napoca (Romania (On-site))
1 year 3 months
2014-10 - 2015-12

Draft of an error management concept

Embedded Software Engineer
Embedded Software Engineer
  • Designed the error-management concept, requirements, and software architecture (AUTOSAR 4.x, ISO 26262) for asafety-compliant photovoltaic power-conversion controller ? certified and launched to market as the Bosch BPT-Sinverter line.
  • Implemented the product's UDS (ISO 14229) diagnostic protocol stack and AUTOSAR-methodology software componentdesigns with full documentation.
Bosch Power Tec
3 years 3 months
2011-08 - 2014-10

safety-critical airbag control unit

Embedded Software Engineer
Embedded Software Engineer
  • Owned platform-wide error-management and robustness strategy for a safety-critical airbag controller (ASIL-D context)
  • Designed and implemented centralized fault management ? UDS diagnostics and DTC lifecycle (DEM/DCM) ? for 1st/2nd-generation airbag ECUs on TMS570/AURIX (GreenHills/Tasking, EB tresos, Vector CANoe), deployed across multiple Volvocarlines.
Autoliv

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2007 - 2012
Studie - Systems Engineering
Politehnica University of Timi?oara
Degree: B.Sc.

Certifications
  • TÜV SÜD Automotive Cyber Security Practitioner
  • TÜV SÜD FSCP, ISO 26262 ? Level 1, Functional Safety Engineer ? exam passed Jun 2026;certificate expected Jul 2026

Professional Training
  • ISO 26262 Functional Safety (Introduction & Basics; Safety Concepts in Detail; The SoftwareLife Cycle)
  • Software Design for Safety-Critical Microcontroller Applications
  • Vector Academy AUTOSAR Workshop

Position

Position

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT ? AUTOMOTIVE CYBERSECURITY & FUNCTIONAL SAFETY

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

AUTOSAR Funktionale Sicherheit Automotive Cybersecurity IEC 26262 HSM Embedded C UDS Automotive-SPICE TARA HARA vector Tools Multi-Layer Software-Architecture RTOS Python Data Analyst MISRA-C ASIL-D ISO 21434 RTE Elektrobit CANoe Softwarearchitektur

Schwerpunkte

Software Architecture
Cybersecurity
Functional Safety
Project & Delivery Leadership

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile
Software architect specializing in automotive cybersecurity and functional safety - 14+ years across Tier-1 safety-critical programs, spanning ASIL-D braking and airbag platforms in production, safety-compliant power-conversioncontrollers, and E/E architecture concept studies across different domains. Deep in AUTOSAR platform architecture, RTE, RTOS, DEM, DCM vHSM integration and crypto stack and key-management lifecycles under ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434, backed by hands-on TARA/HARA/FMEA, MCAL, and UDS/DTC diagnostics work. Progressed fromengineer to delivery manager, then returned to hands-on architecture with full commercial fluency ? contracts, P&L,and stakeholder management across six countries.

Technical Skills
  • Software Architecture
    • AUTOSAR & non-AUTOSAR platform architecture, RTE design, legacy-to-AUTOSAR migration,platform consolidation, E/E domain concept studies
  • Cybersecurity
    • AUTOSAR crypto stack (Csm, CryIf, SecOC), vHSM configuration/integration/testing, keymanagement & provisioning lifecycle, TARA, ISO/SAE 21434
  • Functional Safety
    • ISO 26262 up to ASIL-D, SEooC, memory partitioning, FMEA, HARA, DEM/DCM fault & DTClifecycle
  • Project & Delivery Leadership
    • Scope/time/cost ownership (ASPICE, V-model, Agile), P&L & portfolio management, contractnegotiation, TISAX, multicultural teams (UK, Germany, Japan, Vietnam, India, Romania)
  • Firmware & Protocols
    • MCAL & complex device-driver development, RTOS (ETAS, Vector); SPI, UART, CAN, LIN,Ethernet, UDS (ISO 14229), HIL/SIL testing; Infineon AURIX, TMS570, Renesas F1x
  • Tools & Practices
    • ?IBM DOORS, Enterprise Architect, Understand, AUTOSAR Builder, Lauterbach, VectorCANoe/CANalyzer/DaVinci, EB tresos, Helix QAC, Tasking & GreenHills compilers, IBMRhapsody, Git/Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Jira

Programmiersprachen

GNU Make
POSIX C
SQL
C#
Perl
Python
C/C++ (MISRA C)

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

9 months
2025-11 - now

Product Development & Professional Development

Independent Consultant
Independent Consultant
Embedded Prototyping, AI/LLM, Product Development
  • Completed TÜV SÜD certification program ? Automotive Cyber Security Practitioner and FSCP ISO 26262 Level 1, Functional Safety Engineer (both exams passed).
  • AI/LLM engineering ramp-up ? preparing for the NVIDIA NCA-GENL Generative AI certification
  • AI product development
  • Built and shipped an end-to-end web product ? architecture, custom plugins, DevOps
Cluj-Napoca (Romania)
7 years 5 months
2019-03 - now

Independent projects

Founders
Founders
Development of e-commerce and digital health side projects alongside full-time employment.
3 years 6 months
2022-05 - 2025-10

Braking ECU Platforms

Software Architect & Embedded Security Consultant - B2B Software Architecture AUTOSAR ASIL-D ...
Software Architect & Embedded Security Consultant - B2B
  • Integrated and tested vHSM with the Vector AUTOSAR crypto stack (Csm, CryIf, SecOC) for
  • ASIL-D braking ECUs under ISO/SAE 21434.
  • Implemented OEM-requirements-driven key-management and provisioning software for the Ford BEV and Raptor brakingprograms ? now shipping on OEM vehicles.
  • Merged the commercial-vehicle and passenger-car AUTOSAR platforms into one unified stack in 6 months, drivingarchitecture, software design, and implementation changes across 150+ software components
  • Directed the full-AUTOSAR migration of a legacy braking-ECU codebase - 150+ components, thousands ofports/interfaces, and the real-time architecture, synchronized with the evolving production codebase and ISO 26262 compliance.
  • Defined and rolled out memory- and CPU-optimization strategies across 3 customer projects; configured and optimizedRTOS and RTE, including cross-core data-transfer strategies.
Software Architecture AUTOSAR ASIL-D vHSM SecOC Key Management ISO/SAE 21434 ASPICE ISO 26262
ZF
Cluj-Napoca (Romania (Remote))
8 months
2021-10 - 2022-05

E/E Domain Architecture

Systems Engineer & Software Architect - B2B E/E Concept Studies Enterprise Architect HARA ...
Systems Engineer & Software Architect - B2B
  • Produced 12 E/E architecture concept studies - topology trade-offs with preliminary HARA and TARA ? spanningconstruction, agriculture, material-handling, marine, transport-refrigeration, and building-energy platforms, architectedfor cross-domain reuse.
  • Delivered the complete ASPICE-aligned software architecture (Enterprise Architect) for a charging-gateway ECU bridginglegacy and fast-charging systems - components, interfaces, dynamic behavior, resource budgets, and FuSa-relevantsignal paths - shipped to the client.
E/E Concept Studies Enterprise Architect HARA TARA ASPICE Systems Engineering
FEV
Cluj (Romania (Remote))
5 years 9 months
2016-01 - 2021-09

Provision of a unified MCAL platform

Embedded Software Engineer ? Project Manager(2018) ? Competence Center Manager & DeliveryManager (2019) Delivery Management P&L / Portfolio Contract Negotiation ...
Embedded Software Engineer ? Project Manager(2018) ? Competence Center Manager & DeliveryManager (2019)
  • Led delivery of a unified MCAL platform across 60+ Renesas microcontrollers to ASIL-B (SEooC, ISO 26262) supporting AUTOSAR 3.x /4.x ? coordinating 6 international teams (Japan, India, Italy, Germany, UK, Vietnam) and 15 engineers.
  • Directly managed a department of embedded engineers across multiple projects; owned budgeting, forecasting, anddelivery-model optimization for a ~?8M business unit ? meeting margin targets every year.
  • Owned the SPI MCAL module through the full V-model ASPICE lifecycle, including Perl-based ARXML/code-generationtooling and a custom ECU calibration data transformer (a2l, Vector toolchain) for thousands of parameters.
  • Negotiated contracts for AUTOSAR development, HIL/SIL testing, and functional-safety consulting; owned recruitment, hiring, TISAX implementation and business development (lead generation, proposals) across the delivery organization.
Delivery Management P&L / Portfolio Contract Negotiation MCAL AUTOSAR TISAX Business Development ASPICE
NTT DATA Romania
Cluj-Napoca (Romania (On-site))
1 year 3 months
2014-10 - 2015-12

Draft of an error management concept

Embedded Software Engineer
Embedded Software Engineer
  • Designed the error-management concept, requirements, and software architecture (AUTOSAR 4.x, ISO 26262) for asafety-compliant photovoltaic power-conversion controller ? certified and launched to market as the Bosch BPT-Sinverter line.
  • Implemented the product's UDS (ISO 14229) diagnostic protocol stack and AUTOSAR-methodology software componentdesigns with full documentation.
Bosch Power Tec
3 years 3 months
2011-08 - 2014-10

safety-critical airbag control unit

Embedded Software Engineer
Embedded Software Engineer
  • Owned platform-wide error-management and robustness strategy for a safety-critical airbag controller (ASIL-D context)
  • Designed and implemented centralized fault management ? UDS diagnostics and DTC lifecycle (DEM/DCM) ? for 1st/2nd-generation airbag ECUs on TMS570/AURIX (GreenHills/Tasking, EB tresos, Vector CANoe), deployed across multiple Volvocarlines.
Autoliv

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

2007 - 2012
Studie - Systems Engineering
Politehnica University of Timi?oara
Degree: B.Sc.

Certifications
  • TÜV SÜD Automotive Cyber Security Practitioner
  • TÜV SÜD FSCP, ISO 26262 ? Level 1, Functional Safety Engineer ? exam passed Jun 2026;certificate expected Jul 2026

Professional Training
  • ISO 26262 Functional Safety (Introduction & Basics; Safety Concepts in Detail; The SoftwareLife Cycle)
  • Software Design for Safety-Critical Microcontroller Applications
  • Vector Academy AUTOSAR Workshop

Position

Position

SOFTWARE ARCHITECT ? AUTOMOTIVE CYBERSECURITY & FUNCTIONAL SAFETY

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

AUTOSAR Funktionale Sicherheit Automotive Cybersecurity IEC 26262 HSM Embedded C UDS Automotive-SPICE TARA HARA vector Tools Multi-Layer Software-Architecture RTOS Python Data Analyst MISRA-C ASIL-D ISO 21434 RTE Elektrobit CANoe Softwarearchitektur

Schwerpunkte

Software Architecture
Cybersecurity
Functional Safety
Project & Delivery Leadership

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Profile
Software architect specializing in automotive cybersecurity and functional safety - 14+ years across Tier-1 safety-critical programs, spanning ASIL-D braking and airbag platforms in production, safety-compliant power-conversioncontrollers, and E/E architecture concept studies across different domains. Deep in AUTOSAR platform architecture, RTE, RTOS, DEM, DCM vHSM integration and crypto stack and key-management lifecycles under ISO 26262 and ISO/SAE 21434, backed by hands-on TARA/HARA/FMEA, MCAL, and UDS/DTC diagnostics work. Progressed fromengineer to delivery manager, then returned to hands-on architecture with full commercial fluency ? contracts, P&L,and stakeholder management across six countries.

Technical Skills
  • Software Architecture
    • AUTOSAR & non-AUTOSAR platform architecture, RTE design, legacy-to-AUTOSAR migration,platform consolidation, E/E domain concept studies
  • Cybersecurity
    • AUTOSAR crypto stack (Csm, CryIf, SecOC), vHSM configuration/integration/testing, keymanagement & provisioning lifecycle, TARA, ISO/SAE 21434
  • Functional Safety
    • ISO 26262 up to ASIL-D, SEooC, memory partitioning, FMEA, HARA, DEM/DCM fault & DTClifecycle
  • Project & Delivery Leadership
    • Scope/time/cost ownership (ASPICE, V-model, Agile), P&L & portfolio management, contractnegotiation, TISAX, multicultural teams (UK, Germany, Japan, Vietnam, India, Romania)
  • Firmware & Protocols
    • MCAL & complex device-driver development, RTOS (ETAS, Vector); SPI, UART, CAN, LIN,Ethernet, UDS (ISO 14229), HIL/SIL testing; Infineon AURIX, TMS570, Renesas F1x
  • Tools & Practices
    • ?IBM DOORS, Enterprise Architect, Understand, AUTOSAR Builder, Lauterbach, VectorCANoe/CANalyzer/DaVinci, EB tresos, Helix QAC, Tasking & GreenHills compilers, IBMRhapsody, Git/Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Jira

Programmiersprachen

GNU Make
POSIX C
SQL
C#
Perl
Python
C/C++ (MISRA C)

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