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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rewardiful is a points-based platform for rewarding sales partners, distributors, and influencers.
The platform simplifies the process of increasing sales through automated point allocation and reporting.
The project reduced development time from months to 5 minutes through the implementation of a template-based platform with extensive customization options.
A marketplace platform for marina owners to add their businesses to a booking system.
The platform allows users to quickly book marinas with a few clicks.
The project utilizes technologies including PHP, Yii2, MySQL, Bootstrap, jQuery, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Nginx, Beanstalkd.
Education
BSc. in Computer Science
Polytechnic University of Bucharest
2011 - 2015 (4 years)
BSc. in Mathematics
Anastasescu National College
2007 - 2011 (4 years)
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
