Full Stack Developer with 9+ years in building high traffic video chat and dating websites. I have been facilitating the development by getting involved from concept to deployment, ensuring maintenance, doing system architecture, setting automation, CD/CIs, ensuring the quality and readiness of the work being done.
Building and maintaining live streaming, social and analytics applications using modern web-based technologies.
Recruited and formed a productive remote development team in a few weeks. Coordinated the delivery a production version of a complex live streaming SPA in 4 months.
Managed to cut down servers and storage cost to more than 50%. Developed a traffic tracking system on top of ElasticSearch, Django REST and ReactJS.
Led the development for a network of dating websites, setting up system architecture and infrastructure for new projects.
Implemented Kanban development process and XP core practices. Implemented PHP coding and maintenance of high traffic sites.
Coordinated the design/UX process from wireframes and mockups to testing and improvement. Executed cost and performance optimizations like data partitioning, software rearchitecting or infrastructure refactoring.
Managed a medium size development team for 2PTOH, a company that operates a portfolio of online entertainment websites that sum up about 5 million unique visitors per day.
Led the development of 3 large, high traffic websites. Managed the products backlogs, epics, use cases and both technical or functional specifications
Reduced the infrastructure cost by leading migrations, optimisations and refactoring tasks.
Designed, prototyped, developed, upgraded and partially tested the software needed to be deployed on a clustered servers architecture with 50+ web, database, flash, content and caching servers.
Worked with Master/Slave DB architectures, horizontal data partitioning and sharding in order to accommodate the growing data and memcached, CDN and other technologies meant to sustain a high traffic.
Managed projects that involved other huge-traffic tube and dating websites, by starting from minimal business needs/ideas, defining clear objectives and requirements, and coordinating developement tasks.
VoyeurHouse is a voyeur web application that supports live streaming , unlimited live recording/replay, automated media creation and real time chat.
Technologies: ReactJS/Redux/RXJS/SocketIO AWS TDD/CI/CD Wowza Media Server/Nginx/Haproxy PHP/Symfony Mysql/ElasticSearch/Redis/RabbitMQ
Flirtoid.com contains a dating network of 20+ websites/whitelabels that operates in 3 european countries with more than 2000 signups/day. It supports advanced whitelabeling,
Technologies: PHP/PhalconPHP NodeJS/SocketIO TDD Wowza/Nginx/Haproxy Mysql/ElasticSearch/Redis/RabbitMQ
isaffiliates.com is an affiliate system that supports advanced real-time reporting, traffic detection, complex redirect rules, referral policies and handles 1m+ uniques/day.
It also supports whitelabels with custom offering for different businesses.
Technologies: ReactJS/Redux PHP/PhalconPHP TDD/CI/CD ElasticSearch/Mysql/Redis/RabbitMQ
Seeme is an adult website offering live video chat, and dating handling more than 1M uniques/day. Traffic geo optimisation/redirection helps achieve low latencies for various devices and regions based on performer/member's location.
Technologies: Python/Django Wowza Media Server/PostgreSQL/SOLR
MakePrivate is an off the shelf, fully integrated adult video chat solution that offers ready made components like affiliate, studio, models and administrative sections with various billing integration.
Technologies: PHP/Symfony Flash/Flex Java/Wowza Media Server Mysql/SOLR
freeporn.com - Large network of tube-sites summing up more than 4M uniques/day. It consists of a unified database and administrative system to handle unlimited whitelabels, languages and content separation rules.
Various integration with production studios and content were are made.
Technologies: PHP/Symfony Mysql/SOLR
webcams.com is video chat website that handles more than 2M uniques/day with cross-network model sharing and external steaming APIs.
Technologies: PHP/Symfony Flash/Flex Flash Media Server
Education
Master's degree, Management Information Systems and Services, IT Audit and Financial Systems
Spiru Haret University
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
BA Banks and finances
Spiru Haret University
2005 - 2008 (3 years)
BA Navigation and Naval Transportation
Maritime University of Constanta
2003 - 2008 (5 years)
Professional Scrum Master ; AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate ; Linux Professional Institute - LPIC-1 ; Security + ; Network+ ; Java SE 7 Programmer ; CAPM, Certified Associate Project Manager ; Certified MySQL Developer ; Certified MySQL Database Administrator ; Zend PHP Certification
; Comptia - A+