As a SW architect I’m responsible for creating and documenting the software architecture for the green field projects. On the brown field projects, I create architectural diagrams that help the stakeholders to better understand the architecture. These are also used on internal documentation.The projects that I’m involved in are mainly web applications, but I also work on standalone/desktop applications (Java and C#).On a more detailed scale my responsibilities include the following:- Creating the starter projects and POCs that implement my proposed architecture; this helps the developers to immediately start the implementation.- Coordinating and monitoring of the development team and participated in requirement clarification for upcoming global or dedicated projects.- Leading teams throughout the entire lifecycle of multiple applications.- Collaborated with management to identify, refine, and translate customer needs into concrete technical requirements.- Collaborating with other professionals to determine functional and non-functional requirements for new software or applications. - Assisting product owners and scrum teams to explain solution design and help in the process of user story documentation and estimation- Working with multiple departments to resolve time/resources constraints and define delivery and architectural roadmaps and resource allocation.- Architectural decisions, major solution turning points and impact assessment.On top of my role as software architect I’m also the technical team lead and software developer, responsible for the mentoring of junior, mid and senior developers. As a mentor I guide them into focusing on the career framework and achieve their best performances.I strongly believe that testing is the only way to ensure code quality, and that’s why this part of the development process is very important to me.

In 2015 I started to work on a full-time basis for Architect Space and with this I was able to take on more responsibilities and become the head of the development department and software architect.Aside from being a software architect and developer, I also took responsibilities for designing and implementing the software infrastructure. I started by installing Docker and configuring Docker Swarm as container orchestrator, then migrated the company’s website to this new infrastructure. The CRM project I presented above also runs on this infrastructure.As I gained more and more experience, I explored other cloud solutions and I replaced Docker Swarm with Kubernetes, which I also installed and configured. Now, my responsibilities list also includes maintaining and upgrading this Kubernetes cluster. In the future I plan to use EKS Anywhere.One other interesting project was the company’s newsletter. For this, I designed and implemented a scalable system for high volume email sending - over 100k per sending. It was done using PHP, RabbitMQ and Postfix.Being responsible with the availability of the company’s applications, I designed and implemented a custom High Availability VIP solution. It is integrated into Docker Swarm and it is based on Keepalived. In the Kubernetes cluster I use MetalLB as a bare metal load-balancer. I tried kube-vip but it was buggy at that time (I even made a pull request for a bugfix).

The base web programmer, part-time job. I have used the following web tehnologies: PHP, HTML/XHTML/HTML5, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Javascript, jQuery, Ajax, JSON, XML, Zend Framework, caching mechanisms (APC), all with security in mind. During this period I also created my own PHP framework that I used as a base template for new websites.

I developed intranet web applications using PHP, HTML/XHTML/HTML5, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery, Ajax etc.