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Product engineering lead with 12+ years in software, eight of them leading digital services for UK charities. I own products from the first question to the last line of code, and I am open to product and product engineering lead roles.
- Printable CV at badarau.net/cv
- Email is the fastest way to reach me
At a glance
- Roles I’m open to
- Product Manager, Senior Product Manager, Product Engineering Lead, Technical Product Lead. Also consulting and contract work.
- Current role
- Product Engineering Lead at Super Being Labs, leading product and engineering on services for UK charities and social-impact organisations.
- Experience
- 12+ years in software: full-stack developer, founding product engineer at Tailwise, then product engineering lead.
- Sectors
- Fostering, family and parenting support, education, cancer support, and a live platform migration for a UK services business.
- Technical depth
- Ruby on Rails, Elixir and Phoenix, React and React Native, SwiftUI, Node, PostgreSQL, Twilio, Cloudflare.
- Location
- Timișoara, Romania. Working remotely with teams in any country; most past clients are in the UK.
What hiring managers get
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Product judgement with engineering depth.
Decisions that hold up in delivery, because they were made by someone who knows how the work gets built.
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Comfortable with high-stakes services.
Vulnerable users, sensitive data and services that cannot stop are the normal working conditions, not the exception.
Selected work
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A fostering profile platform for a UK children’s charity
Foster carers use this platform to introduce their home and family to a child before the child moves in. I was main developer and led its technical development as it grew from one charity’s fostering teams to other fostering services in England and Wales, in English and Welsh.
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A computing education platform for UK schools
A computing charity runs free courses where young people design and build apps for problems they care about. I was main developer on its platform, then led the build of the new one: courses that any teacher can deliver well, and industry volunteers matched to classes. The programme reached 30,444 young people in 708 schools in 2024/25.
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Tailwise: matching dog seekers with verified breeders
Tailwise wanted to stop people buying dogs from puppy farms by matching anyone looking for a dog with verified, responsible breeders. As founding product engineer I took the first version from idea to launch in six months, and the launched product was central to the founders’ £200,000 raise.
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PostDeploy: everything after you ship
Too many small teams find out production is broken from a customer email. I founded PostDeploy to change that: uptime monitoring, error tracking, privacy-first analytics, status pages and changelogs in one place, with an alarm when a scheduled job goes quiet. Teams set it up by asking the coding agent they already use.
Have a role in mind?
Send the role and the company, and I will reply with whether it is a fit. I reply within two working days.