Cristian

Cristian has looked at software from almost every side of the delivery line. He has tested it, planned it, shipped it, owned the product and, for the last decade, answered for the date.

He started in quality assurance at a games studio in Cluj and spent four years moving from tester to QA lead to QA project manager. That is where his instinct comes from: find what breaks before the customer does, and say so while it is still cheap to fix.

From there he moved into project management at a software company and, within a few years, was heading the function. Then he joined a web and mobile product studio, first as a product owner, later as delivery manager and product manager. Nearly six years of taking client products from first brief to launch taught him how a plan changes once real teams, real budgets and a real deadline get hold of it.

He spent the most recent stretch of his career as a program manager at an international gaming operator, on the buyer’s side of the same table. There he saw a plan the way the person who has to sign it off sees it, and what a vendor’s proposal tends to leave out.

That is why he joined One in Sixty, and why, from January 2027, it is where he works full time. Mid-market companies in Central and Eastern Europe buy serious technology without a delivery office to catch the slip. The slip is rarely in the code. It is in the plan: the milestone nobody owns, the dependency nobody named, the estimate that was never tested against how the team really works.

Cristian brings that delivery discipline to every Sixty Check. His degree is in advertising, not engineering, so he reads every proposal as a buyer would: what is being promised, by whom, and who is accountable when it slips.

Based in Cluj-Napoca. Draws whenever there is a pencil nearby, and gives his time to community volunteering.