Bio

Name: Spataru Madalin Daniel
Age: 32 years
Location: Bucharest (but I'd like to move out of the city and work remotely)

Working Experience

Software Developer at Sparktech Software SRL

2014 - 2015 as an intern; 2015 - 2019 as a full time employee

• almost 5 years backend web development with Ruby on Rails
  worked as a Software Developer on many web applications, and HTTP Restful APIs

• worked with the Ember JS Client-Side MVC Framework on a project in 2015

  • worked with the Vue JS component framework on two projects in 2018

  • developed APIs for React Single Page Applications on multiple occasions, but did not write code for the front-end - I do have a good understanding of React, and state management solutions like Redux, though

Fullstack web developer at Tara Interactive

sep 2021 - sep 2022

• worked on complex VueJS single page applications,
  migrated older Vue2 apps to Vue3, used both Vuex and Pinia for state management

• worked on extending a simple NodeJS backend

• implemented Golang microservices: -> login service using OAuth and JWE tockens -> simple REST API -> PDF generation as a background worker

Golang backend developer and VueJS frontend at Quasdev

jan 2023 - current

• worked on Golang HTTP APIs and microservices
• worked on a legacy VueJS 2 application

VueJS (and Nuxt) developer at Moonflow Solutions

apr 2023 - current

• worked on Vue3 projects using the Nuxt framework for SSR
• interacted with blockchain APIs via the ethers-js library

Education:

• finished high school at "Colegiul National Tudor Vladimirescu, Tg Jiu, Gorj" (2011)

• attended "Universitatea Politehnica Bucuresti, Facultatea de Automatizari si Calculatoare",
  without graduating (dropped out of college in my fourth year, sadly)
  (attended 2011 - 2015, re-enrolled in 2019, but dropped out again same year due to health problems)

Knowledge:

• backend web development knowledge: mainly Golang and Ruby

• passion for learning programming languages; I've worked tutorials and books about Rust, Elm, Erlang, Elixir, OCaml

• imlementing CLI tools in Golang

• knowledge of the Elixir/Phoenix web development framework

• experience working with Postgresql DBMS

• experience using Redis key-value datastructure store

• experience with Couchbase - a JSON document database

• experience configuring GithubActions for CI/CD

• experience with Docker, but not with Kubernetes, I mostly used docker-compose for starting my local dev setup I worked closely with a very good Devops Engineer that handled kubernetes cluster configuration and monitoring

• good knowledge of JS and HTML

• basic knowledge of CSS

• work experience with the Bootstrap CSS Component Framework

• very little knowledge of UX design, UI design, or accesibility features (I mostly worked together with a designer, and implemented the given mockups, or integrated the given HTML and CSS snippets into the web application; I've never used Photoshop ... I'm not sure if it works on Linux XD )

• work experience with Webpack (and configuring the damn thing's loaders and plugins!)

• good understanding of unit, integration, and end-to-end testing

• understanding of the Test Driven Development software development methodology -> while I rarely practice TDD, I always try to write tests for the software features I implement, and rely on those tests for refactoring

• good understanding of the git version control system

• decent understanding of Linux OS - especially Ubuntu, Linux Mint

  • I've been using Linux as my main OS for over 10 years now, but I do not have system administration skills

• willing to learn other software tools, languages, libraries, and frameworks