Driven Software Engineer with 12 years of experience developing applications, having a focus on Ruby/Ruby on Rails and back-end development. Gabriel is an experienced team leader and mentor, with a lot of start-up and entrepreneurial experience. He has expertise in designing and building applications for different markets, including Saas and eCommerce applications and platforms. He constantly strives for test-driven development and cost-efficient reusable code in an agile environment.
Maintained and improved the backend of all MealPal applications while delivering the features requested by business in a timely manner and using best practices. Some examples of features include: food delivery integration, coworkers lunch pickup, credits system refactoring and more.
Participate in scrums consisting of cross-functional teams, both software and hardware.
Ensure that features are being delivered efficiently and on-time.
Managed the backend and mobile teams using Agile methodologies, overseeing the technical merge between DeinDeal.ch and MyStore.ch brands.
Created a serverless backend in Azure Cloud and maintained backend services used to communicate with mobile applications.
Improved performance of the e-commerce app backend developed in Ruby on Rails. Developed services for authentication, search, and communication with logistics partners.
Advised the improvement of the educational plan for the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics, University of Bucharest.
Taught web development using Ruby on Rails at the Mathematics and Informatics University of Bucharest.
Technical coordinator of the first University Startup Pre-Incubator from Bucharest, where I guided students to find a startup idea and implement an MVP.
Acted as full-stack developer on various projects, including SkinScan, melanoma analyzer with mobile clients. Developed the back-end side for this project.
Implemented and developed an office renting marketplace called NextNomads.
Led a team of four developers using Agile methodologies.
MealPal is a platform that offers lunch and dinner subscriptions giving you access to the best restaurants. Maintained and improved the backend of all MealPal applications while delivering the features requested by businesses in a timely manner and using best practices. Some examples of features include: food delivery integration, coworkers' lunch pickup, credits system refactoring, and others
Improved performance of the backend by rewriting SQL queries, rethinking caching strategies, or refactoring old code
Improved the maintainability and confidence in the system through refactoring, writing tests, and repairing old broken data. Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, AWS, Heroku, Rspec, React, Mobx.
Deindeal.ch is the number 1 shopping platform in Swiss off-price e-commerce. The startup company DeinDeal was founded in 2010 and has since become the most successful Swiss shopping platform. Worked as a backend engineer and later as a team leader for the platform. Worked on all the parts of the backend system and got involved in all major projects. The most fun project was the backend for the new food delivery business which was done full serverless. Technologies were numerous, but the most important: Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js, C#, Elasticsearch, MySQL, MongoDB, Azure cloud, Docker, HAProxy.
Wedday.ro was one of the most fun projects I've worked on. It's a marketplace that connects future brides with wedding vendors from the Romanian market. I've developed the entire project from scratch. The project will soon be launched. Technologies used in the project: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, Turbolinks, PostgreSQL.
GuideSuccession.com was a SaaS built for notaries from Canada to generate pre-filled Word documents and help them manage their clients. I've developed and maintained the project by myself. Technologies used: Ruby on Rails, Javascript, PostgreSQL.
Education
B.S.E in Engineering and Computer Science
Politehnica University of Bucharest
2009 - 2013 (4 years)
Ruby Meetup Co-organizer in Bucharest; WebDev Course Organizer; Board Member of ROSEdu (Romanian Open Source Education Organization); Winner of Startup Weekend 2010; Honorable Mention at Space Settlement Design Contest, NASA
