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Bucharest, Romania

Bucharest, Romania

Dreamlabs was born from the need to deliver high-quality IT solutions and training services to a global market. Made out of a group of industry veterans, our team has the knowledge, experience and passion to deliver outstanding software and to help existing development teams improve their internal processes and products.We are firm believers in long-term collaborations, which is why we focus on providing quality services, scalable system design and on making an impact through our work. We also constantly measure our results and look for ways to improve our business relationships.One of our main goals is to unburden our customers and allow them to focus on what makes their products great - this is why we provide full-stack services, including project management, software development, infrastructure automation and mobile development. We have found through the collaborations with our customers, that this is especially beneficial for start-ups and newly-founded companies that need a trusted partner to help them set up a solid foundation for the future.Finally, we believe in transparency, which is why we have a predictable cost structure and why we deliver working software to our customers every two weeks. This allows us to build trust, keep budgets under control and develop the products that our customers dream of.If you have any questions, or if you would like to know if Dreamlabs would be a right fit for your business, feel free to drop us a line at office@dreamlabs.ro or visit us at https://www.dreamlabs.ro/ for more information.

Berlin, Germany

At TrueNode, I assist with turning complex tech problems into simple solutions. I use my proficiency in IT to drive a successful outcome for our customers, making sure that our team delivers working software, within budget and scope. For technical projects, I design effective systems, automate routine tasks to improve productivity, monitor the quality of our software engineering process and ensure that the supporting infrastructure can scale to accommodate future needs.

Bucharest, Romania

As the CTO of SampleMe, I have multiple responsibilities: managing and motivating the local development team, ensuring the product vision from a technical perspective, designing the system architecture, setting up the infrastructure automation, assisting the team in meeting our goals, recruitment and handling external-facing technology discussions.Since there's multiple facets to this position, I'll only focus on sharing some of the technical highlights that I work with daily, which include: microservices, scalable Docker containers, ReactPHP for long-running processes, PHP 7.1, Angular 2 (+ Webpack) for frontend development and Ionic 2 for mobile development.In terms of architecture, our solution revolves around microservices developed in Symfony 3.2 which communicate via API (OAuth2 with JWT) and worker queues (Amazon SQS acting as backend). The infrastructure is cloud based and features a high-performance, globally-replicable setup, with Docker powering our solution. DynamoDB and MySQL 5.7 are used as data backends, and Varnish is used in the invalidation model in order to support long-running caches that are only updated when the data is changed. Another highlight is the usage of ReactPHP, which allows us to bootstrap our microservices efficiently and keep our service and kernel alive between multiple requests, thus dramatically improving performance.We also use Travis to run our unit, integration and functional tests, as well as quality checks on the codebase: PSR-2 compatibility, code coverage, cyclomatic complexity, etc.In terms of extras, we feature a powerful build and deployment pipeline that revolves around Travis CI and Docker Hub, and we also have a set of reusable modules which we host on our own Toran Proxy registry. Finally, since we work in a very dynamic market, we've built several RAD tools which allow us to quickly experiment with new endpoints and also an in-house API gateway solution for co-ordonating all of the microservices.

Bucharest, Romania

As an Agile Development Coach, my role is split between working with people and technology. My primary role is to motivate the team, keep everyone happy and help them achieve their potential, which I do through a combination of communication, availability and frequent follow-up. I focus on understanding the driving force of a person and then use their strengths in order to compliment their environment, build a strong foundation for the future and wake the sleeping giant within them.Apart from my coaching role, I also double as a technical lead and handle the architecture and technical vision for the projects that we are running.Technically, we work primarily on enterprise-level applications using Symfony 2, and focus on TDD (via PHPUnit unit, integration and functional tests) and BDD (using Behat through Mink, Selenium2 Driver). We try to go for micro-services approaches whenever it's possible, and we regularly also use Angular JS, Node JS and Gulp for our front-end Javascript (complimented by Karma w/ Jasmine automated tests), and SASS for our front-end CSS.We also use the following tools:- Continuous Integration: Travis CI and Jenkins- Continuous Deployment: Jenkins- Static code analysis: Scrutinizer CIIn terms of infrastructure, we are working primarily using Docker containers for our build artifacts, and also handle our own dev-ops through Puppet and Chef.We also do cross-technology pairing and information sharing with our colleagues from Java, C#, Android and iOS, in order to learn and grow from each other.We are also using SCRUM as our Agile framework (we also have some Lean development being done in-house) – the system allows for kick-off/retrospective meetings, code review meetings, and dedicated team improvement meetings (i.e Herculean Doughnut). The current internal system also ensures that the procedures are monitored by a Scrum coach that assists the team in accurately identifying issues, and helps with optimising various workflows.

Bucharest, Romania

Technologies: php, zend-framework, symfony2, memcached, rabbitmq, gearman, hadoop, solr, scrum, business, phpunit, continuous-integration.Worked as a developer for eMag.ro, the largest online retailer in Romania (and one of the largest Romanian retailers across all markets), part of NASPERS group, by developing web, mobile, desktop, and automated applications for the company.Was involved in the company's internationalisation process, working with technology that allows for a high number of requests to be processed, especially during peak promotional events - such as Black Friday - using the following technologies:- RabbitMQ- Hadoop- Solr- MemcacheI have been part of a team of other Senior Developers, using Scrum as a development model. The system featured weekly meetings with clients, as well as grooming and retrospective sessions in order to ensure that all developers were actively implicated in the overall architecture of the applications.Applications were developed using TDD and featured unit-testing from the ground-up in order to ensure the quality of the final product.Developed a high understanding of the retail business, and interacted with a number of departments within the company in order to facilitate the features that were required, and to help with integrating business requirements across all areas.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Technologies: php, agile, symfony2, jquery, linux, apache, version-control.Worked on creating a website for the Joint Quantum Centre of Newcastle University's Applied Mathematics department and Durham University's Molecular Chemistry department.Interacted closely with the client, in order to gain an understanding of all the specifications required - proved proactive after initial research, by proposing software solutions that can integrate many of the daily activities of post-doctoral researchers.Exclusively handled back-end for the project, by creating the administration dashboard, user privilege levels, content generation (using usability guidelines), a group interface that allows for file-sharing, as well as full site customisation.Software solution is very extensible, as its design is meant to incorporate future Universities if required. Software package can also be licensed to other universities, as it allows any educational structures to be configured, regardless of domain.Due to solid development, was offered an LTS contract, so that any new requirements can be adapted for the centre.

Newcastle, United Kingdom

Technologies: ruby, ruby-on-rails, html, jquery, sass, sql-server, rspec, https, agile.Worked alongisde a team of software developers on designing and optimising a scalable web architecture that handles the analysis of millions of entries in order to generate a billing system for major CISCO clients.Closely collaborated with international and multi-cultural teams towards gaining a full understanding of the requirements and risks associated with such an important project.Interacted with the team in understanding CISCO’s deployment model and reached out to major clients in order to establish their exact functional and business needs for the application as well as for the HTML5, jQuery and Sass CSS implementations that were expected.Developed an excellent understanding of security measures and of configurations that can be made to the underlying MSSQL database engine and information storage systems, in order to offer a speed increase for the application architecture profile.Implemented RSpec automatic unit testing and test-driven development at every step in development, in order to ensure that the final product can handle the volume of entries that it needs to process and to be able to display them securely using HTTPS to a public audience online, without compromising data integrity.

United Kingdom, Denmark, Romania

Technologies: php, content-management-system, wysiwyg, html, css, javascript, jquery, animation, design, linux, hosting, mysql, sql-server, postgresql, apache, embedded, android, amazon-s3, unix, sass, ruby-on-rails, bash, java, c++, web-services, soap, phpunit.Worked with a number of different contracts/projects including: Ievo Ltd, ISIS Arts, Bang&Olufsen, Audeosoft Gmbh, Somet Fitting Board SRL, Office Club Products, Oftastyle SRL and Novalenti SRL.- Provided full-feature, custom-built Content Management Systems, which allows administrators to interact with a very fast and scalable application and define the content, organisation, and user navigation on the entire web-site and database implementation.- Developed an open method of socket communication through an active ad-hoc network between a Tahoe II embedded board, a UNIX PC and a mobile Android device.- There has been a very clear focus on making a couple of the websites as accessible as possible, so a lot of the project code is designed to facilitate text-browsers, while also applying a number of principles regarding colour theory and content management in order to attract the viewer's attention to the central aspects of the webpage.- Proved proactive during development time by helping the client make important decisions concerning the end result of the product and suggesting additional innovative features.- Implemented a custom WYSIWYG editor, dynamic generation of pages following different display standards, customisable navigation menu, image storage on third party solutions (S3) and dynamic rerouting and rewiring.- Developed excellent team-working skills, by working in distributed, multi-national environments, locally and over the Internet.- Worked by myself on some of projects and as such, had full responsibility for the outcome. Also enriched my commercial awareness, by understanding the requirements of the customers, and providing solutions which boosted sales and user satisfaction.

Bsc, Computing Science

Activities and Societies: problem-solving, object oriented – programming, World Wide Web technologies, ethics in computer science, system.

High-School, Computer Science And Mathematics

Activities and Societies: Computing Olympics, Computer Science contests, Oracle Course, MySql / PHP Certification, Cisco Certification.