Meet the partners for Codecamp Cluj-Napoca | April 13

Codecamp Cluj-Napoca will be back on April 13. Don’t forget to register here. Free access.

In the meantime, we want to thank our partners for being with us every step of the way.

For most of the Romanian, BRD is a day to day presence, spread all over the country. We are a Top Romanian Bank and one of the companies listed at BVB. We have also a long history. Descendent of the National Industrial Credit Society, created in 1923, BRD was initially the Investment Bank of the Romanian country before becoming, in 1990, a universal bank. In 1999, Societe Generale became the majority shareholder of the bank. The French bank, one of the biggest from the euro area, with 145.000 employees in 66 countries and over 31 mil.  Clients from all over the world, transferred in Romania know-how that allowed us to become shortly one of the leaders of the Romanian market.

We constantly are looking to innovate ourselves, while offering to wide public programs and products tailored, from kids to students and businesses of different sizes, comfort and security. We have 2.3 mil clients and 780 branches. Our activity covers three major business lines: retail and IMM, big corporations and investment banking. With over 7.500 employees we are one of the biggest banking employers.

BRD is an important economic actor in the local economy but also we are an active social player, involved in the community through projects and programs that cover social, cultural and sportive areas.

We are proud to support technology and innovation in our country and we engage our efforts in developing key actors (the new generation of IT specialists and tech entrepreneurs ) for a digital society. Our main projects are  BRD First Tech Challenge, the Robotics Labs and Innovation Labs but we constantly continue to search and support initiatives, such as Codecamp,  that contribute to supporting the Romanian creators of technology and innovation. Furthermore, we have developed a special offer for the IT segment through which we hope to answer the daily banking needs of this public.  Find out more details on www.brd.ro/code

 

Established in 1998 in Cluj-Napoca, Softvision is now a big and global outsourcing company that provides great software product development services to their clients. Softvision expanded throughout Romania in Baia Mare, Bucuresti, Iasi and Timişoara. The company develops over 300 projects for over 100 clients from Europe and USA, in the following fields: software development, testing and quality assurance, mobile apps, UI/UX Design, support services and others.

Softvision is renowned for its Top 500 Fortune, Silicon Valley and Wall Street clients: Microsoft, Toshiba, Alcatel, Sharp, Swisscom, Sprint and others. In 2016, Softvision merged with well-renowned US-based Company SPI (Software Paradigms International), thus becoming an International Company with offices also in Canada, Australia, Brazil and India.

With the merger, Softvision gained new clients from the retail segment: Macy’s, Saks Fifth Avenue, Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, Lord&Taylor, Estee Lauder, Michael Kors. Softvision encourages their employees to work hard, play hard and to continuously learn through the Softvision University Program.

This was developed to offer full support to every individual in the company to reach the highest professional development level in accordance with their potential. Softvision University comprises 11 communities: .Net, Android, iOS, Web, DB, QA, Java, C/C++, DevOps, PM and Artificial Intelligence.

 

Edurom is a national company that has been successfully providing in Romania, since 2002, human resources services, based on two powerful and well known global methodologies: BELBIN and Situational Leadership -The Original Model.

Moreover, EDUROM exclusively represents these methodologies in Romania. Thus, day by day, we are striving to: Build Leaders, Create and Develop PERFORMING Teams, and achieve significant Improvements of Productivity for our customers. Based on this, Edurom provides professional services in Training, Recruitment, AND Consultancy (Performance Management and Productivity Improvement).

 

Since it was founded in 2005, Catalysts has managed to grow continuously without losing its highly informal, non-hierarchical and familial character that guaranteed its success in its very first years.

Now the company has 12 offices in Austria, Romania, Germany and Uganda. 

Among its customers and partners are many hidden champions & world market leaders: the European Space Agency, the Volkswagen Group, Hyperloop Transportation Technologies, etc.

All this has been possible due to the loyalty and determination of the 300+ employees. 

Catalysts is the inventor and operator of the Catalysts Coding Contest (CCC) – the largest onsite coding contest in Europe, which is organized twice a year, giving visibility to talented software developers.

More information:

www.catalysts.cchttps://www.facebook.com/catalysts.romania/

 

METRO SYSTEMS Romania offers complex IT solutions for the retail industry, such as Design, Quality Assurance, Support, Delivery & Deployment, Application Operation and Infrastructure Operation. METRO SYSTEMS GmbH provides information and technology management services for METRO.

METRO SYSTEMS develops and implements commodity and logistics management solutions, information management and archiving solutions, database systems with customer information, cash register systems, e-commerce solutions and intranet systems as well as administrative systems. Since 2006, the year of the establishment of METRO SYSTEMS Romania, the number of employees has steadily increased to more than 900, and the company continues to expand. METRO is one of the largest and most important international commercial companies. The company operates in 35 countries and has more than 150,000 employees.

 

Micro Focus and HPE Software have joined to become one of the largest pure-play software companies in the world. Bringing together two leaders in the software industry, Micro Focus is uniquely positioned to help customers maximize existing software investments and embrace innovation in a world of hybrid IT—from mainframe to mobile to cloud.

Micro Focus is a pure-play software company focused from the ground up on building, selling, and supporting software. This focus allows us to deliver on our mission to put customers at the center of innovation and deliver high-quality, enterprise-grade scalable software that our teams can be proud of. We help customers bridge the old and the new by maximizing the ROI on existing software investments and enabling innovation in the new hybrid model for enterprise IT.

 

SMEDIX Inc. is a global software development company focused solely on partnering with the world’s leading healthcare companies to transform patient care through innovative software solutions and technologies. We help bridge the development gap, enabling our customers to effectively commercialize innovative IVD products. Our industry-experienced leadership and highly skilled global engineering team have broad capabilities to address the software needs of our customers. We handle the full software development lifecycle of clinical diagnostic and medical device products by providing services in software development, software verification & validation, and regulatory compliance consulting. Additionally, we are growing teams who are subject matter experts and specialize in areas such as instrumentation and control engineering, machine learning, bioinformatics, remote diagnostics, cloud applications, laboratory information interfaces, test automation, mobile applications, globalization and localization. With presence in the United States and Romania, we learned to transition from synchronous to asynchronous collaboration and boost productivity while maintaining the highest quality product. Our engineers understand that safety and quality form the essential foundation of medical device software and that continuous self-improvement and transparency enable us to build effective and successful long-term partnerships. We aspire to maintain our strong cultural working environment while steadily growing the business year over year.

 

SDL

As the global innovator in language translation solutions, SDL is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. With 1,500 enterprise customers, 400 partners and a global infrastructure of 55 offices in 38 countries, SDL is transforming business by enabling nuanced digital experiences with customers around the world.

 

Gnex represents a new concept regarding drones and gadgets, that brings fun and professionalism together.  Our specialty are drones, as we are the biggest drone importer in Romania. With the help of these innovative products, we can explore, visualize and perceive everything around us. Also, we can provide you with a large range of electric transporters, like scooters and electrical bicycles, Ninebot products and hover-boards.

Being passionate about technology and innovation, we want to bring the latest international trends in Romania trough e-commerce but also through our presence at IT and Technology conferences.

 

Siemens is a global technology powerhouse that has stood for engineering excellence, innovation, quality, reliability and internationality for 170 years. It focuses on the areas of electrification, automation and digitalization.

Corporate Technology (CT) department is Siemens’ central research and development arm and plays an important role in Siemens Romania. Scientists and engineers, mathematicians and software developers here work hand in hand with Siemens’ business units to identify the technologies of tomorrow and leverage them in support of the businesses.

Our aim is to ensure that their developments prevail in the marketplace and become true innovations.

We are both a creative driver of disruptive innovations and a partner to the Siemens’ businesses, offering them high-quality research and development.

In Romania, we are present in Cluj Napoca, Brasov and Bucharest and have a comprehensive portfolio of research activities, software development and technology-based services which supports Siemens’ business in the fields of Electronic Design, Business Analytics, Image Analytics and Cybersecurity. We are also active in the services and IT solutions areas where we develop and carry out automated testing for web, mobile and SAP based applications.

The R&D Center in Cluj Napoca offers a comprehensive portfolio of software development activities and technology-based services in order to support Siemens internal customers in meeting the demands of digitalization. Our portfolio includes two main areas of responsibility: services (namely maintenance) and IT solutions.

In the service sector, the center acts as an internal helpdesk for various Siemens platforms, for example in the area of maintenance and development of internal SAP systems. The IT support services cover all levels: from 1st level support until 3rd level support. In the IT Services and Solutions sector, web, mobile and SAP based applications are developed (using SAP ABAP, C#, .NET, Java programming languages) and automated testing is carried out.

 

We’re a team of experts building data and software that enables the detection and prevention of financial crime including corruption, money laundering, bribery, human trafficking and terrorist financing.

Our development stack is python-centric and we’re heavy users of cloud platforms, in particular AWS technologies and systems such as JavaScript, AngularJS, MongoDB, ElasticSearch, Kafka, Hadoop, Docker, Kubernetes, ECS, ELK, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Gitlab.

We own and develop our own products, therefore we require all of our team members to have a holistic understanding of the problems that our clients face and the range of technologies that can be brought to bear on these issues.

The company was founded in 2014 and since then has grown rapidly as clients around the world have adopted our solutions ComplyAdvantage now has 180 people across Cluj, London, New York and Singapore. After securing our Series B investment round of $30 million and tripling our revenue in the past year alone, we’re growing fast and are looking for the best people to join us.

 

AXON Soft is a leading provider of high-performance software development and IT consultancy services. With over 20 years of experience, they leverage their highly skilled technical team to reach their customers’ most challenging projects. From the very beginning, AXON Soft pushed boundaries and did their best to grow in a way that they can feel proud of. Their teams worked for Western Europe companies, became professionals in working from remote locations, and adopted modern methodologies. Moreover, they always keep up-to-date with technology trends. Over the years, AXON Soft teams’ dedication brought them successful results. They developed 2 software applications that have entered in top 10 worldwide for their business area – logistics and workforce management. With persistence, experience, and leadership, AXON Soft ensures the quality and success of digital transformation. Through innovation and cutting-edge technology, they bring value to their clients’ businesses, while they are responding to tomorrow`s challenges and opportunities.

 

At JetBrains, code is their passion. For over 15 years they have strived to make the strongest, most effective developer tools on earth. By automating routine checks and corrections, their tools speed up production, freeing developers to grow, discover and create.

Their line of software products include:

* IntelliJ IDEA (The most intelligent Java IDE)
* PhpStorm (Lightning-smart PHP IDE)
* WebStorm (The smartest JavaScript IDE)
* PyCharm (Python IDE for professional developers)
* RubyMine (The most intelligent Ruby IDE)
* AppCode (Smart IDE for iOS/OS X development)
* CLion (A smart cross-platform IDE for C and C++)
* DataGrip (Your Swiss Army knife for databases & SQL)
* PyCharm Edu (Professional tool to learn programming with Python)

* Rider (New Cross-platform .NET IDE based on the IntelliJ Platform and ReSharper)
* ReSharper (Visual Studio extension for .NET developers)
* ReSharper C++ (Visual Studio extension for .NET developers)
* dotTrace (.NET performance Profiler)
* dotMemory (.NET memory Profiler)
* dotCover (.NET unit test runner and code coverage tool)
* dotPeek (Free .NET decompiler and assembly browser)

* TeamCity (Powerful Continuous Integration out of the box)
* YouTrack (Issue tracker designed for development teams
* Upsource (Code review and repository browsing)
* Hub (JetBrains team tools, integrated)

* Kotlin (Statically typed programming language for the JVM, Android and the browser)
* MPS (DSL development environment)

 

The HUB from Piatra Neamt is a consistent binder for the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the region. They dare to challenge those who are willing to join the community through initiative, transparency, courage and determination. Whether it’s entrepreneurs in the making, professionals in the business area, companies eager to invest, starting or mature startups or simply connectors and facilitators, each one and all together are the essential part of the HUB’s mission and contribute significantly to its story.

The HUB aims to increase the entrepreneurial environment and support it for the long term, but for that, they need reliable players to join and act accordingly. In that sense, they are addressing companies that are open to honest dialogue and focused on the real needs of entrepreneurial dynamics within the region, and such companies have already joined the HUB. They want to generate the energy and the creative spirit that excite and support people in their entrepreneurial challenges.

All these goals will be materialized through a series of programs, events and services that will serve the entire regional entrepreneurial community, activities that have already been tested and validated with the target group.