Dragos C.

Dragos C.

Senior Back-end Developer

Funchal, Portugal
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About Me

With 10+ years of web development experience under his belt, Dragos delivers high-quality solutions for clients applying a customer-centric approach. He has worked remotely with various startups across Europe and US, building full-stack web applications and MVPs to test new products and markets in healthcare, eCommerce, travel, e-Learning, and enterprise SaaS. Dragos works with Python and JavaScript and their related technologies to develop web services, serverless APIs, and front-end SPAs with React.js. He has also built RESTful APIs with Django/Flask and SQL databases and has been involved in maintaining existing and coding new UI components for new product features (React/Redux).

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Back-end Developer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutios for clients across a broad range of industries.

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

  • Ensuring that features are being delivered efficiently and on time.

Stellar Health
Stellar Health
Senior Software Engineer
2021 - 2023 (2 years)
Remote
  • Developed new features to improve performance throughout the application by analyzing and optimizing SQL query performance and moving complex aggregation and filtering to Elasticsearch.

  • Built new modules using SPA architecture with React, React Query, and Material UI.

  • Contributed to scaling the app to handle large amounts of data.

Nomadweb
Nomadweb
Self-employed Developer
2020 - 2021 (1 year)
Remote
  • Worked on a project named Indie Travel to connect independent travel creators with travelers seeking unique experiences.

  • Developed an AI-powered solution for Reasonal AI to optimize supply chain revenues.

  • Contributed to creating an agronomic analysis application (Ogor) based on satellite imagery.

LIONSTEP
LIONSTEP
Back-end Engineer
2018 - 2020 (2 years)
Remote
  • Scaled a product from an MVP to a full-feature, production-ready solution, creating the testing infrastructure with 100% code coverage using Pytest.

  • Actively participated in the design of the overall architecture, switching from highly coupled monolithic code to a serverless microservice with a NoSQL database.

  • Dockerized the app and implemented CI using Google Cloud Build, offloading long computational tasks to background async processes that run outside business hours.

Fulcrum Labs
Fulcrum Labs
Senior Software Engineer
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Worked as a Python back-end developer on building an API for an adaptive e-Learning platform.

  • Applied the right skills, creativity, and client requirement specifications in developing the API for the platform.

  • Assisted with troubleshooting production support issues on the project.

Beehive Innovations
Beehive Innovations
Consultant Python Developer
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Remote
  • Applied innovative approaches in developing a Sync API that enabled client applications to sync seamlessly between desktop and mobile applications.

  • Provided support and resolved bug issues on the client API.

  • Performed code deployment to Beehive's environments, ensuring adherence to all security, availability, confidentiality, and privacy policies and controls.

Teatral
Teatral
Founder | Software Developer
2012 - 2019 (7 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Offered guidance and technical leadership in the design, development, and support of Teatral's online community platform.

  • Built and deployed a clean front-end user interface for the web platform.

  • Regularly coached and mentored junior developers.

Eau de Web
Eau de Web
Software Developer
2012 - 2016 (4 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Successfully contributed to the design, development, and support of major application builds/enhancements for Eau de Web's clients.

  • Accurately tracked and reported the status of work and time spent on client projects for Eau de Web.

  • Worked independently or in teams on iterating clean, idiomatic code on company projects.

uberVU
uberVU
Software Developer
2010 - 2012 (2 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Exhibited technical mastery in optimizing the existing JavaScript functionality and worked with jQuery to improve and enhance the application's user experience.

  • Engineered new features and improved the validation schemas with a focus on minimizing code duplication.

  • Utilized Git to manage and deploy various releases to the client's production environment and handled database migrations, updates, and rollbacks on the production environment.

Portfolio

Software Developer - Teatral.ro
Software Developer - Teatral.ro

Built an online community dedicated to theater plays. The community serves as a platform where people can view and sort their favorite theater programs, write reviews, rate plays, actors, or directors, follow shows they're interested in, and receive notifications when new dates are announced.

Education

BSc IT
BSc IT
The Romanian-American University of Bucharest, Romania
2004 - 2008 (4 years)