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Romania

Bucharest, Romania

As a senior/lead engineer I am designing software solutions for new and legacy products, updating them to industry standards and modern stacks, ensuring proper automated tests coverage and deployment (CI/CD pipelines), translating requirements into technical solutions, breaking down specifications into tasks, supporting the developers and doing hands-on development.Leading a team during the upgrade process of a monolith application, separating critical parts into micro-services and progressively updating sections of the application with an API Platform back-end/React front-end approach.Some of the projects I am involved in are:- Solutions (mobile, web) for a pharmaceutical company, to facilitate the caregivers - patients exchange of information and workflow.- Building the API required for mobile applications, working closely with iOS/Android developers. The application is communicating with Salesforce by API and Heroku Connect.- Highly scalable user notification systems (push, sms, email), such as medication reminders, using Symfony Messenger/AMQP transport.- Checkout service for an eCommerce application: WSSE security, API integration, payment processing, NoSQL logging, cloud deployment.- B2B management app for Office365 organizations (Azure Active Directory) with API Platform, Axios.Technologies used: PHP (Symfony, API Platform), PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Git, RabbitMQ, CI/CD, Heroku cloud.

Bucharest, Romania

As a software engineer / team lead, I improved the codebase by promoting cleaner code, bug-free functionality, adopted methodologies to improve the development cycles and mentored junior team members.Ongoing and maintained projects:360alumni.comA SaaS platform built with Symfony 3 for crowdfunding, connections, notifications and other social network features for US universities.Responsible for expanding the product's architecture, upgrading the technologies used, managing the development workflow with continuous integration and the deployment process.WashingtonWatch.com - complete revamp with Symfony 3WashingtonWatch.com delivers the numbers behind proposed legislation and regulation. It is a starting point for investigating what the government does with your money, and for taking action to control it.Enklave - mobile game prototype with node.js and PHPQigongInstitute.org - a Symfony 2 based platform containing articles and a free and payed membership directory.The Qigong Institute is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting the scientific understanding of the basis of Qigong through research and education. AiJob.ro - a job recruitment platform built in Symfony 2Features candidate and HR interfaces, a recruitment process that offers online video interviews, auto evaluated tests and a selection system for keeping track of possible candidates.Technologies used: PHP (Symfony), MySQL, jQuery, RabbitMQ, Git, Jenkins

Bucharest, Romania

As a back-end engineer, I was part of the Romanian development team for Leonid Systems' LOKI portal and LOKI provisioning.LOKI portal allows IT admins and end users to manage and configure their cloud PBX through the web.LOKI provisioning: internal service provider portal not to be exposed to end users but used to provide a more efficient operation of services. eg addition of new enterprises, groups and sites, users.I contributed to both maintenance tasks and new features of the existing products, which was based on PHP (Zend2 framework) technology and SOAP web services.

Bucharest, Romania

As a back-end software engineer I have expanded the functionalities of online stores, working closely with front-end developers, and improved the order management systems in the administrative areas of the applications.These applications consisted in a variety of e-commerce platforms that included both online shopping and back-end order management systems.Technologies used: PHP CodeIgniter Framework, MySQL, Prototype

Bucharest, Romania

Worked as a ColdFusion software developer for Vodafone UK online shops (Customer & Enterprise Business). Technologies used: ColdFusion, MS SQL

Bucharest, Romania

Worked as a ColdFusion software developer for various JTI (Japan Tobacco International) applications used by the employees of the organization (eg: marketing materials management). Technologies used: ColdFusion, MS SQL

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.E.), Computers And Information Technology

Activities and Societies: Specialization in Information Engineering

Informatics

Activities and Societies: Yearly participant to Olympiad in Informatics during high-school