Alexandru C.

Alexandru C.

Senior Software Engineer

Romania
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About Me

Seasoned Software Engineer with 6+ years of experience prototyping, designing, and implementing full-stack user-friendly software solutions using mainly PHP and related frameworks, as well as JavaScript technologies. Alexandru enjoys working in an environment that challenges his knowledge, putting the ability of a fast learner to good use, with a core motivation to create commercial value and solve professional problems.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Software Engineer
2020 - Present (4 years)
Remote
  • Create and develop innovative software solutions for different clients across a broad range of industries.

  • Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.

  • Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.

Contractor / Software Consultant
Contractor / Software Consultant
Software Engineer
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Remote
  • Developed enterprise products for businesses using PHP/Laravel framework for the back-end, as well as JavaScript/Vue.js and other frameworks.

  • Troubleshooting, testing, and maintaining core software products and databases.

  • Closely collaborated with the client in the analysis of improvements of the project in production.

Softia Web
Softia Web
Full Stack Developer
2016 - 2020 (4 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Worked on the development of a platform that handles all the assets for the company's products, including API, licensing, curation and dashboard statistics.

  • Designed and created a database that can easily hold 2+ million assets, in 67 tables, for about 73k different properties, that sums up about 7TB of storage by using PostgreSQL and Amazon S3 services.

  • Implemented a search engine that improved by 4x the API response time, going from over a second to about 300ms, by using SOLR. Created an automated module for the curation of images that saved about 85k hours of manual work, by using Google Vision and Restb.ai.

Create Direct
Create Direct
Full Stack Developer
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Worked on the development of Rewardiful, an online loyalty platform, that would be easy to customize and adapt to different customers, without the need of a software developer.

  • Reduced the customization process from months of development to 5 minutes, by designing and implementing a template-based platform, with a lot of customizable features (color, logo, product list, online payment, user report).

  • Developed a Microsoft Social Data Export Tool to centralize all social media accounts data into one application with the possibility to export it.

Freelancer
Freelancer
Software Developer
2015 - 2015
Bucharest, Romania
  • Worked on the development of Marina Reservation, a booking platform that provides marina owners the ability to add their businesses into the marketplace.

  • Built a powerful marketplace that provides boat owners, travelers and charter companies to book a marina in seconds.

  • Closely collaborated with the client in the analysis of improvements for the project.

dcs plus
dcs plus
Front-End Developer
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Built a cross-browser responsive design, from IE8 and Safari to Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome, making sure that there are no big differences from the old design in terms of structure.

  • Ensured a good user experience by maintaining the available structure with a new design.

  • Closely collaborated with developer teams to deliver a high-quality customer-facing product.

Zata Corp
Zata Corp
Junior Developer
2014 - 2014
Bucharest, Romania
  • Worked on the development of a a platform for purchasing unlock codes for mobile phones.

  • Built a simple and intuitive platform that can get you an unlock code for your phone in 3 easy steps.

  • Created a simple Android application that opens the already finished website, publish it on Play Store, where it has over 100k downloads.

Portfolio

IT Trainer - Digital Kids
IT Trainer - Digital Kids

Digital kids is a company that offers IT courses for children. Developed the ability to work with kids and created a positive and professional learning environment. Set the standards and expectations through example in my conduct, work ethic, integrity and character. Motivated trainees through effective training methodologies both in group and individual classroom dynamics. Managed the design, delivery and continuous improvement of training programs as well as ongoing learning opportunities across the organization, in support of the organization’s needs. Utilized a variety of the training methodologies, techniques, concepts, learning tools, and practices to ensure maximum effectiveness of the training programs.

Full-Stack Developer - Rewardiful
Full-Stack Developer - Rewardiful

Rewardiful is the complete, points based solution for rewarding your sales partners, distributors, influencers to buy or sell more. The platform is easy to use. All users have to do is to create their account, choose the template they wish depending on the specific of their company, upload their partner’s database, allocate points and let the sales increase. I reduced the customization process from months of development to 5 minutes, by designing and implementing a template based platform, with a lot of customizable features (color, logo, product list, online payment, user report). Technologies used in the project: PHP, Yii2, MySQL, Bootstrap, jQuery, JavaScript, Nginx, Beanstalkd.

Software Developer - Marina Reservation
Software Developer - Marina Reservation

Marina Reservation is a booking platform for the world's most beautiful and top-rated marinas. The client wanted a marina reservation platform that provides marina owners the ability to add their businesses into the marketplace. I built a powerful marketplace that provides boat owners, travelers and charter companies to book a marina in seconds, a couple of clicks away, without the need to personally go and book it. With over 4200 marinas that you can choose from, the platform has grown as a successful business, that being confirmed by the boatrental.io, a boat rental platform powered by marina reservation. Technologies used in the project: PHP, Yii2, MySQL, Bootstrap, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Nginx, Beanstalkd.

Education

Education
BSc. in Computer Science
Polytechnic University of Bucharest
2011 - 2015 (4 years)
Education
BSc. in Mathematics
Anastasescu National College
2007 - 2011 (4 years)
Education
ECDL Complete; ES2015: The Shape of JavaScript to Come; JavaScript Road Trip; jQuery: The Return Flight; Javascript-best-practices; The-sequel-to-sql; Try-sql
Licenses & Certifications