Connections Tech

02/11/2026

❓What does professional stability mean in tech today?
In the HR 2026 supplement of Ziarul Bursa
our colleague Dan-Octavian Cătană, People & Culture Business Partner, says it depends more and more on staying relevant: “In AI, tools, models and technical approaches change very fast.”

📍One of our answers to this fact is Connections AI Squad:
a 20-week program built around a group of ten juniors with computer science and software development backgrounds.
Participants are assessed on six dimensions, from AI and machine learning and software development to critical thinking and understanding the business.
It's the kind of expertise behind projects like PREVENT 2.0 (ANI), where machine learning helps identify conflicts of interest in public procurement.

Dan also talks about the skills we look for - intellectual curiosity, analytical thinking, responsibility, openness to feedback - and why leadership has to create the space where those skills get practiced and validated.

Full interview 👉

*(Interviu cu Dan Cătană, People & Culture Business Partner la Connections)Reporter: Aveţi în derulare un program de formare internă a specialiştilor AI. De ce aţi ales această modalitate şi nu aţi recurs la recrutarea directă, din piaţă?Dan Cătană: Am pornit de la convi...

30/10/2026

Connections is one of the Top Employers on Undelucram.ro this year!
The ranking is based on reviews and votes from people who work here.

🙌So this one belongs to our colleagues, who took the time to say how it feels to build digital infrastructure for public institutions and companies, day after day.

Claudiu Mihail Staniloiu, Chief Human Resources Officer
➡️ “Technology is what we build, but it’s our people who make it possible. This recognition belongs to our colleagues, to their dedication, collaboration, and the collective effort they bring every day. I’m proud of what we achieve together and grateful to everyone who contributes to making Connections a place where people can grow, make a difference, and build meaningful things together.”

Thank you for the trust. We'll keep earning it!

19/10/2026

As citizens, we don’t actually see the result of a system like PREVENT 2.0. We don’t get a notification when a suspicious public contract is stopped in time.

But that’s exactly what it does:
➡️ public money protected, before it disappears.

After years of working with Romanian public institutions, we’ve learned that the best technology for society is often not the most visible. But it has to be the most efficient and make a difference where it really matters.

For all of us, the value of this solution is simple: fairer procurement, public money spent as it should be, and more trust in how institutions work.

PREVENT 2.0 exists because ANI chose to be proactive about integrity and invested in better digital tools to do it. Being their technology partner and working side by side with their experts was a great tech & learning experience for us 🙌.

Thank you, Connections Tech teams.
Together we'll keep placing our philosophy at the core of our solutions and be a trusting tech partner for change.

Check out our blog https://tinyurl.com/42ex59rt to get into more details on PREVENT 2.0

13/10/2026

💡Latest episode of CEO Talks series ➡️ Imagine Romania's transport, energy or healthcare systems under attack tomorrow. How ready are we, really?

Cybersecurity isn't a side issue in digital transformation.
For critical infrastructure, it's the whole point.

Too many public projects still treat security as a final checkbox instead of a starting requirement. That's backwards, because the most expensive security mistakes don't happen after an attack. They happen at the design stage, when no one was thinking about them yet.

🔐 Secure-by-design means building security in from day one instead of bolting it on at the end, when the cost of fixing things is far higher.

"Secure-by-design means security as a core ingredient during development, not a final audit, when the cost of fixing things is far higher." thinks Bogdan Florea, Founder & Co-CEO Connections, who also shared his views on cybersecurity and digital infrastructure, in his latest interview for Ziarul BURSA https://tinyurl.com/bdzyc8b6

Stay tuned for more episodes!

12/10/2026

A project like 📍PREVENT 2.0 for ANI could not be built by two developers and a deadline.

It took systems architects, cybersecurity specialists, testers, data protection experts, and business intelligence - a whole team who understood they were working with sensitive data, for an institution that isn't allowed to get it wrong.

The hardest part wasn't the code.
It was understanding how an integrity inspector actually works, so the system would help them, not get in their way.

This is the part that stays less visible, but it's the reason the system actually works at scale.
And we could do it thanks to a committed ANI team.

More insights on the project, on our blog 👉https://tinyurl.com/23tv6anc

06/10/2026

👀 New episode of the series: We don't need more apps. We need three fundamentals:

1⃣ Clean, accessible public data.
2⃣ Digital literacy across public administration.
3⃣ And someone with real authority to own digital transformation.

Romania isn't going to out-build the US or out-scale Chin, and it doesn't need to. What's realistic is that "Romania can choose to become a regional fast-follower — like Estonia, Portugal or Israel. Small countries that placed smart bets and won." says Bogdan Florea, Founder & Co-CEO.

One thing we keep coming back to: Romania is missing genuine public-private partnership. Right now, the state either builds alone or buys, it rarely builds together with the private sector.
We want public projects to become what they should be: a real technology lab, not just a delivery contract.

New episode of CEO Talks, every couple of weeks.
Stay tuned and read our blog 👉https://connections.tech/priorities-for-digital-romania/

30/09/2026

👀 PREVENT by ANI has been around since 2017.
A good system, but with clear limitations: connected to only 3 databases, hard to scale as the volume of public procurement kept growing.

👉What we changed in 2.0 :
→ many more data sources connected
→ a search engine that does all the heavy lifting in the background
→ case allocation to inspectors, supported by AI
→ new infrastructure, built to keep up with real-world volume

👉The result?
In its first three months of operation, PREVENT 2.0
analyzed over 6,400 procurement procedures,
with a total budget of 86 billion lei,
and flagged integrity incidents worth approximately 2.2 billion lei.

This wasn't a rewrite from scratch, but a working platform, taken to the next level. The the kind of project we enjoy most, where we keep a live system running, and make it better.

Full story on our blog https://tinyurl.com/mvc3n5ve

28/09/2026

our Connectors: Claudiu Stăniloiu, CHRO
"People follow people, and people leave people, not companies."

This idea has shaped how Claudiu thinks about leadership since early in his career, and it is still at the core of how he runs the People function at Connections today.

In a tech company that never really sits still, HR is there to build trust, turn business goals into real experiences for people, and hold the balance between what the company needs and what people need. A balance nobody gets right every time, but someone has to own it.

For this new episode of our Connectors, Claudiu talked to us about culture, trust, AI's growing role in HR, and challenged us to think if "whose side is HR on?" is the question to ask.

Read the full conversation 👉 https://tinyurl.com/2wtwst25

22/09/2026

📍People often ask us how PREVENT 2.0 spots a conflict of interest.
This is how:
1️⃣ The public authority fills in an integrity form in SEAP, for every procurement procedure.
2️⃣ The system automatically checks whether decision-makers, from the head of the institution to the evaluation committee, have any family or business ties to the bidding companies.
3️⃣ If something looks suspicious, it notifies ANI inspectors, and if the suspicion is confirmed, ANI issues an integrity warning to the institution.
4️⃣ The institution takes action before the contract is signed, not after the money is gone.

One single form 📜 filled in online, directly in SEAP.
No extra bureaucracy, no procedures put on hold.
Just technology doing exactly the job it was built for: stopping a problem before it happens.

That's tech making sense for society.

Read all about it on our blog 👉 https://tinyurl.com/mrx54bat