Raul Luca Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

New York, Ny, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

• Led a team (remotely during COVID for 3+ months) of 4-7 Full-Stack Software Engineers, both from a technical and personnel perspective, in application development using React/Redux, Node, MySQL, and AWS• Technical lead on the Report Management application, used internally by over 100 operations specialists, scientists, and pathologists to curate the Tempus Report delivered to doctors and their patients• Successfully architected and led implementation of numerous large multi-quarter projects involving things like integrating with new systems while maintaining and then deprecating old systems and converting a massive (hundreds of unique fields) monolithic JSON structure into bite-sized parts that could be versioned and consumed separately• Implemented processes and provided guidance and mentorship to help the team code, review, test, and ship effectively and with high quality• Wrote extensive documentation, both technical (outlining implementation details, software patterns and design, etc.) and non-technical (describing projects, requirements, timelines, decisions, and more)• Contributed extensively to the interview and onboarding process and interviewed and recruited numerous Software Engineers, QA Engineers, and Software Engineering Interns• Worked cross-functionally to find the right balance between quick development and quality development to deliver on time and under pressure

Chandler, Arizona, Us

• Led a team of 4 Software Engineers (2 Full-Stack, 1 Front-End, 1 QA Automation)• Hired, trained, mentored, and led a team of 8 Data Analysts who used the product my Engineering team built• Worked and led teams remotely for 4 months from Chicago• Consistently recognized as a top performer, receiving an annual performance rating of Exceptional, given to only the top 15% of employees• Wrote a templating language called RAD using JSON and C# to allow non-developers to create benefits data files to send to insurance carriers, reducing costs and increasing time-to-live by over 90%• Integrated and refactored an over-engineered legacy application for creating benefits data files into a well tested and maintainable ASP.NET MVC 5 web application• Learned React and built a dynamic form typically consisting of hundreds of components to facilitate use of the RAD language by non-developer technical analysts• Maintained certain Domain Driven Design (DDD) principles throughout all development work by the team, defining the Domain Models by working with domain experts, enforcing a Ubiquitous Language through thorough code reviews, and partitioning the application along Bounded Contexts to prepare it to be split into Microservices • Introduced a test oriented application development environment, ultimately maintaining over 80% test coverage with almost 800 unit tests• Introduced Behavior/Test Driven Development (BDD/TDD) patterns that allow for high reusability of code between tests and readable plain English tests• Practiced Agile methodologies, developing and releasing in two week Sprint cycles and participating in daily Stand-Ups and bi-weekly Backlog Grooming and Sprint Planning meetings• Managed development environments and deployed to both development and production environments using Docker containers on a Kubernetes cluster in AWS

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Automated the daily entry of trades, using Excel VBA, into the main asset management accounting system that tracked approximately $15B in assets• Architected, developed, tested, and implemented an ASP.NET MVC 5 C# web application for managing the $500M+ real estate portfolio• Acted as Product Manager, Full-Stack Developer (Front-end, Back-end, Database), and QA Analyst• Taught myself ASP.NET MVC 5, C#, JavaScript, Bootstrap, and Visual Studio testing while building the web application• Collaborated with end-users to gather requirements , subsequently designing a UI, workflow, and business logic to meet their needs• Architected a flexible database for the web application with over 60 tables• Developed a responsive front-end using JavaScript/jQuery and Ajax, a modern design using Twitter’s Bootstrap, and interactive data access using DataTables• Built over 200 integration and unit tests using Visual Studio’s testing framework for automated regression testing• Used Git for source control before migrating the web application to TFS to take advantage of its sprint planning tools• Wrote and maintained extensive user-facing documentation for the web application• Worked with the technology team to implement Assurant’s security components, have the web application and database hosted, and manage deployment

New York, New York, Us

• Provided Business Intelligence reporting to C and VP level executives through the use of data visualization tools• Built a Data Warehouse comprised of Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Application data• Developed Stored Procedures for custom reports for the Booker application using SQL Server and SSRS• Created reports used for payroll and financial purposes by enterprise clients• Worked with various departments to understand underlying data and fulfill reporting needs accurately

New York, New York, Us

• Reduced by over 75% the time required for data cleaning and validation of new clients files by semi-automating the process through a user-interface Excel VBA program using Regular Expressions• Led company-wide Excel classes of 25 people that focus on helping various departments more effectively use Excel in their day-to-day operations• Automated data conversion between competitor databases and Booker by creating mappings with SQL Server (ETL process)• Trained and mentored new team members by providing data formatting and cleaning expertise

• Analyzed the market potential for a Real Estate service for senior executives to correctly allocate a $1,000,000 lawyer recruitment budget• Created a text-analysis algorithm that accurately classified lawyers based on their self-described biographical information for use in sales, marketing, and retention efforts• Developed a user-interface application with Excel and VBA that allowed for more advanced searching of content in Practical Law’s CRM • Generated reports for VP level management on email marketing campaigns, data research effectiveness, business intelligence, and sales territories using SQL Server and SSRS• Developed and maintained VBA programs in Excel ad-hoc

• Introduced and implemented an automated system to collect information on lawyers, resulting in a data collection cost savings of $600,000/year• Increased the accuracy of classification and reduced time per analysis of manual lawyer research by introducing a key-word search tool called Firefox WP Search• More than doubled the existing database of law firms through use of online data sources like Capital IQ

New York, Ny, Us

• Audited physical securities, bonds, notes, and certificates contained in the vault• Prepared audit reports and periodically presented relevant information to management

B.A., Molecular, Cellular, And Developmental Biology

B.S., Business Administration, Emphasis In Marketing And Finance