Marian C.

Marian C.

Senior Software Engineer

Bucharest, Romania
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About Me

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.

Work history

UpStack
UpStack
Senior Full Stack Developer
2019 - Present (5 years)
Remote
  • Create and develop innovative software solutions for different 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.

Generation 8 Media LLC
Generation 8 Media LLC
Full Stack Developer / Team Lead
2016 - 2020 (4 years)
Remote
  • 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.

NetCounted
NetCounted
Team Lead
2014 - 2016 (2 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • 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.

ZedMedia B.V
ZedMedia B.V
Technical Team Lead
2012 - 2013 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • Led the development of tube and online games websites that sum up to 6M uniques/day or 16K live uniques.

  • Recruited and formed a remote development team. Took a cross-functional role while being involved in initiation and across the whole SDLC.

  • Managed infrastructure migration, consolidation and software architecture shifts. Led the scalability improvements efforts.

YHOW LLC
YHOW LLC
Senior Developer
2011 - 2012 (1 year)
Remote
  • Recruited and trained new members of the development team. Created a live streaming and videochat application using ActionScript and Java.

  • Wrote specifications, user stories and documentation. Developed various high traffic websites, BI or anti-fraud apps using PHP.

  • Developed the chat and video streaming server and for backend services using Java. Created a sustainable workflow for a virtual team environment.

2PTOH
2PTOH
Team Lead
2010 - 2011 (1 year)
Bucharest, Romania
  • 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.

1&1 Internet Development
1&1 Internet Development
Senior PHP Developer
2010 - 2010
Bucharest, Romania
  • Handled releases and deployments in a multi clustered environment along with revision control and build automation tools.

  • Developed both unit and functional tests as high quality was a requirement for most of the tasks.

  • As a project lead i assisted the project managers with the technical aspects from initiation to delivery.

NetSource
PHP Developer / Team Lead
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
Bucharest, Romania
  • 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.

Portfolio

Team Lead - Generation 8 Media LLC
Team Lead - Generation 8 Media LLC

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

Team Lead - flirtoid.com
Team Lead - flirtoid.com

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

Full Stack Developer - NetCounted
Full Stack Developer - NetCounted

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

Technical Team Lead - ZedMedia B.V
Technical Team Lead - ZedMedia B.V

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

Senior Developer - YHOW LLC
Senior Developer - YHOW LLC

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

Team Lead - 2PTOH

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

Team Lead - NetSource
Team Lead - NetSource

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

Education
Master's degree, Management Information Systems and Services, IT Audit and Financial Systems
Spiru Haret University
2008 - 2010 (2 years)
Education
BA Banks and finances
Spiru Haret University
2005 - 2008 (3 years)
Education
BA Navigation and Naval Transportation
Maritime University of Constanta
2003 - 2008 (5 years)
Education
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+
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