Ovidiu C.

Ovidiu C.

Senior Software Engineer

Bucharest, Romania
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About Me

Ovidiu is a senior developer, software design engineer, and technical lead with 20+ years of experience building products, designing databases/architecture, and implementing web services. He has worked remotely for most of his career, serving in diverse teams and roles in various industry domains and companies, including the likes of Microsoft and Philips.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Ruby on Rails and Javascript Developer
2016 - Present (8 years)
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Create and develop innovative software solutions for clients across a broad range of industries.

mapLatency.com and probeApi.com
Developer and Technical Lead
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
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  • Managed the Azure SQL database design as well as implementation, maintenance, and performance tuning.

  • Developed ASP.NET web services for the business layer presentation.

  • Designed and developed the storage solution for active cached probes using No-SQL database Redis.

  • Worked directly with CEO to build the platform from a technical point of view (internet, networking, bandwidth, throughput, etc.) and an economical point of view (market needs and research).

wifiprotector.com
Developer and Technical Lead
2010 - 2014 (4 years)
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  • joined project from its inception and today it continues to grow with thousands of daily users and more than two million total users.

  • Managed product analysis, requirements, and features.

  • Translated new requirements to development tasks and communicated them to the team.

  • Served as a Developer and SCRUM Master, utilising C++, C#, SQL, database architecture. Conducted and managed testing, and deployment.

  • Led the staff members, in this project, and assured tasks occurred in the right order and cadence, and with the highest levels of service.

Philips
Senior Software Designer
2007 - 2010 (3 years)
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  • Cut costs and helped the company stay competitive in the market by completely redesigning the storage layer of the PACS system making the entire system scalable with high performance.

  • Developed the database design/architecture and responsible for DB API layer implementation, web services implementation, and bug fixing.

  • Participated in a team of escalation engineers and was called in to help clinics with critical problems.

  • Significantly improved customer satisfaction and increased return clients.

  • Awarded the "Philips Star Award" for numerous great achievements.

  • Key member of the recruitment team who interviewed candidates and created a strong team to fit the Philips culture, principles, and diversity.

Microsoft
Senior Software Design Engineer
2000 - 2007 (7 years)
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  • Designed and implemented a test platform that generated/automated tests saving hundreds of hours of time. The benefit was immediately observed in cache flow for the team; even today, the platform is used to run automated basic, functional, and regression verification tests.

  • Served as Senior Developer on Microsoft Dynamix team and developed the next generation of retail management platform and services. Built a strong team and a innovative product.

  • Interviewed candidates for open positions on the team.

  • Shipped Microsoft SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft SQL Server 2005; two products used by millions of users today.

Univ. "Al. I. Cuza" Iasi
TA Computer Science Department
1998 - 1999 (1 year)
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  • Taught the laboratory classes for Computer Networks in the Computer Science Department Univ. "Al. I. Cuza" Iasi Romania. Course topics concentrated on TCP/IP stack on Linux environment.

  • Challenged students to think and learn distributed systems.

Delta Soft S.R.L.
Software Design Engineer
1998 - 2000 (2 years)
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Conducted extensive programming work on Unix SCO, Linux in C/Java, and Java in Windows, for a medical software distributed to healthcare clinics in Germany.

Nodes GmbH
Software Design Engineer
1997 - 2000 (3 years)
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Developed innovative projects for German market in Java and C/C++ for Windows platform.

Portfolio

Ruby on Rails and Javascript Developer
Ruby on Rails and Javascript Developer

At the beginning I helped the effort of migrating from Parse storage and javascript middle tier to ruby on rails and PotgreSQL; I was also involved in managing AWS account, instances and resources living in AWS cloud: S3 buckets, IAMs, EC2 intances, SSL certificates; After migration was successfully done I helped build iteratively (agile approach) next versions of the product, and specifically I implemented business requirements for the backend part of the platform using ruby on rails framework; I was also involved in managing the google tag manager workspace for the product website mealpal.com

Senior software design engineer
Senior software design engineer

Philips Itellisence PACS is a picture archiving and communication system and the system behind almost every scanner (xray, mri, molecular, mrn, ct.) that Philips sells to hospitals and clinics worldwide. It allows the radiologists and physicians to work efficiently while focusing on saving lives. Completely redesigned the storage layer of the PACS system making the entire system highly scalable with high performance. Developed the database design/architecture and responsible for DB API layer implementation, web services implementation, and bug fixing.

Senior software design engineer
Senior software design engineer

Solely designed and implemented a test platform that generated and automated tests; this solution saved hundreds of hours of man power. Results were immediately observed in cache flow for the team.

Architect and coordinator
Architect and coordinator

WiFi Protector uses advanced systems and powerful encryption technologies to ensure users feel safe while navigating the internet. I architected and designed the platform serving VPN+Antivirus mobile and desktop clients. I also incorporated team member feedback in the final solution.

Software engineer consultant
Software engineer consultant

CloudPerf allows users to monitor their cloud infrastructure as well as benchmark new vendors from last-mile networks. It also provides performance and availability metrics using interactive charts and reports. I contributed to the design and implementation of DB schema and SQL API layer for the CloudPerf platform. I led the team that implemented a new system for tracking sales from partners; this helped the company drop the previous inefficient tracking system saving 50% time and reduced costs by 75%. I also contributed to the implementation of the web services that serve CloudPerf platform and MapLatency platform.

Education

Education
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science
Universitatea Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iași
1994 - 1998 (4 years)