Bogdan D.

Bogdan D.

Senior Frontend Developer/UX Developer

Romania
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About Me

Strong creative Senior Frontend Developer with 7+ years expertise in the utilization of different technology tools and frameworks. Skilled in Javascript (React & React Native), Ecommerce (Wordpress & Magento), User Experience and Graphic Design, I've been delivering high quality, scalable and performant software solutions for clients across numerous projects. My projects are pixel perfectly implemented because of my attention to the smallest detail.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Frontend Developer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Creating and developing innovative software solutions for 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.

Texty Pro
Texty Pro
UX Developer
2019 - 2020 (1 year)
Remote
  • Worked on the development of Texty Pro, a subscription to a software service designed for all businesses and teams that text enables a business to send and receive text messages using existing business phone numbers.

  • Handled development and design needs for both the web and mobile apps (iOS and Android).

  • Enhanced application core functionality and managed customizations throughout the application for clients.

TokenPay
TokenPay
Senior Mobile/Web developer
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Built a design system and implemented it throught all of our projects, saving countless hours of work for each current and future projects, keeping the same feel accross all platforms and defining a good brand guideline together with the design team.

  • Ensured technical feasibility of different features by analyzing wire-frames, flows, final designs and prototypes. Offered feedback and solutions during the whole design process.

  • Actively participated in the project management flow by planning, grooming and setting priorities for other members of the frontend and mobile team,

GetCoded
GetCoded
Founder/Product Owner/Developer
2018 - 2018
Bucharest, Romania
  • Created a business plan and estimated the development time for 2 years.

  • Implemented pixel perfect design and UI logic in web and mobile platforms, making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core functions and features.

  • Helped development core functionalities through market research, competitor analysis and user demographics.

Mandarine International SA
Mandarine International SA
Senior Frontend Developer
2017 - 2018 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Refactored all apps from Wordpress to Laravel and reorganized the development workflow of the whole frontend team.

  • Actively mentored 5 Juniors and 1 Middle developer while working together on current/upcoming projects.

  • Offered feedback and solutions to a junior team in order to develop websites faster with better know-how.

About:Blank
About:Blank
Frontend/Mobile/UX Developer
2016 - 2017 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Key development and management on all apps as well as creating a team workflow.

  • Launched an app on Android and iOS in React Native’s early days v0.15. App still on store after 3 years with no extra changes to the codebase.

  • First encounter with React and React Native in it’s early days, made it with two apps into production on both web and mobile.

Arnia
Arnia
Frontend Graphic Designer
2015 - 2016 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Updated to newest version of Magento, refactored the frontend side and improved the websites performance. Kept the brands guidelines and continued with designing new pages/banners/brochures/cds for the client.

  • Actively participated in the project management flow by planning, grooming and setting priorities for other members of the frontend team.

  • Ensured technical feasibility of different features by analyzing wire-frames, flows, final designs and prototypes.

XL Family
XL Family
Frontend Developer/Junior Designer
2014 - 2015 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Contribuited to a project for Bol.com that had tablets in its stores meant for the customers to buy directly from the tablets with no staff needed.

  • Achieved a lot of design/technical skills and learned from the team.

  • Technologies used in the company: Wordpress, Magento, jQuery, Gulp, Jira, GitHub.

Freelancer
Freelancer
Frontend Developer
2010 - 2014 (4 years)
Brasov, Romania
  • Built websites from scratch which made me work in all areas of development: frontend/design/backend/marketing/operational.

  • Mastering pixel perfect design using conventional frameworks or static pages for a local clients: Wordpress/WooCommerce and Magento + static pages/Landing pages.

  • Got used to utilities like Gulp and live reloading for better developer experiences. Continued through the years to pursue this area of development.

Portfolio

Senior Mobile Developer/TokenPay Wallet
Senior Mobile Developer/TokenPay Wallet

The TokenPay Wallet is easy-to-use, privacy-focused, and protects user cryptocurrency assets by leveraging the proprietary multi-layer TokenPay security protocol. This wallet features multiple advanced user security controls, such as biometric TouchID and FaceID logins. Supports multiple privacy options, including Tor network encryption, Ring Signatures, Dual-Key Stealth Addresses, and Zero-Knowledge Proofs. I worked on the UI and dependencies architecture for better developer flows and deployment of the app on local phones or through AppCenter. Technologies Used in Project: React Native, Redux, Styled Components

Senior Mobile Developer/CryptoRise
Senior Mobile Developer/CryptoRise

Cryptocurrency portfolio ticker with centralized exchange services. My goal was to learn new ways of using APIs, which is GraphQL and improve styling techniques and universality through primitives and Styled components.I worked on this project as programmer, designer and product owner. I had the purpose to ease the access and knowledge for the new crypto currency enthusiast so that he understands the domain and gets a clear view of his investments while easing his access in these exchanges. The scope was to build my ideas and see what challenges are ahead to determine the next features and workloads in quarters while estimating costs for the whole development of the app. Technologies Used in Project: React Native, Apollo, GraphQL, Styled components, AppCenter.

Senior Frontend Developer/TokenPay Merchant Services
Senior Frontend Developer/TokenPay Merchant Services

Merchant services for multiple cryptocurrency coins. This web app provides a registration/login app through Auth0 as well as a Dashboard with statistics and settings for each section.It is a quick and easy solution for online transactions on e-commerce websites and applications. Magento/Prestashop/Wordpress plugins were used for integrating the merchant service as a payment option. One of my main objectives was to make the system understandable and useful to the merchant. Also it was mandatory to be able to make it work cross platform, lower the time needed for developers to work on styling and focus more on logic and create rules for designers and developers. Technologies Used in Project: React, Redux, Styled components, Auth0.

Frontend Developer/Playa
Frontend Developer/Playa

Centralizing video/audio services in a single app. Youtube and Soundcloud were used to link the user’s accounts and show them separately in lists of videos.The key feature is to be able to watch/listen music from different sources. Discogs and Lyricist were meant to display information about the currently playing song. BandsInTown is used to get the latest events for currently playing artist. These APIs were meant to provide a flow for listening and creating playlists that would eventually become a social experience. This project has proven to me that I can come up with ideas on how to structure an application’s UX and business model as well as the attention to the details throughout the entire project. Technologies Used in Project: React, Redux, Styled components

Mobile Developer/Zile si Nopti
Mobile Developer/Zile si Nopti

Event planning and coupon system for restaurants/events. Listed events by today/tomorrow/next week/next month based on your current city selected in Romania. GPS navigation for restaurants This was my first encounter with React and React Native in it’s early days v0.15. Succesfuly launched a production ready app in 5 months on both platforms on a new framework. The project went into production after 5 months of work. It has aprox 2000 downloads and 200 active users. It was launched 3 years ago and it doesn’t have any updates sadly, so it might be buggy. Technologies Used in Project: React Native, Redux.

Education

Education
Department of Informatics
Faculty of Computer Science, University of Bucharest
2013 - 2015 (2 years)