Alexandru Bumbăcea

Online specialist

The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.

Grady Booch

Site Reliability Engineer

Senior Software Engineer

• Develop & maintain Golang apps in docker based ecosystem for financial trading workflow
• Improve response times & error handling of apps

• Add CI flow to all team's projects
• Implemented new relic module across team's apps
• Contributed to Bazel & Go-linq open source projects

Senior Software Engineer

• Improved application uptime up to 99.5%, in order to improve application impact into income
• Decreased response time of one the API to 150ms median, 300ms 99.5%
• Talking part as speaker to meetups & conferences
• Contribute to open source projects - you can check my github account
• the team devops

• Recommendation engine - provide recommandations of products for our customer using both internal developed solution and also external providers.
• Targeted customer communication - automated marketing flows

Technical Team Lead

• Code reviews
• Release manager
• Introduce team to CI & CD principles
• Requirements gathering
• Technical growth of devs
• App optimizations

• Recommendation engine - provide recommandations of products for our customer using both internal developed solution and also external providers.
• Targeted customer communication - automated marketing flows

Senior PHP Developer

• Bring improvements to Solr based search solution

Senior PHP Developer

• Designed solution for monitoring all cron based tasks
• SSO solutions for internal apps
• JS error management solution
• Jenkins integration guru
• Server-side validation for AppStore and GooglePlay purchases.
• Designed ecommerce module used in multiple games.

Advanced PHP Developer

• Wordpress plugin for integration with internal SSO
• Rework blog network in order to achive faster deployments and common code base.
• Zend library for permissions and login integration with internal SSO
• Wrote unit tests for ZF application
• Built basic XSLT management interface using Zend
• Added functionality to internal Joomla modules
• Designed and implemented url mapping system for Zend
• Redesign live-preview module of the CMS in order to correctlly render all type of elements and also to allow unit testing
• Managed technical requirements/documents of the applications
• Continuous communication with client
• Design multi-market Zend library currently used in multiple apps within the company
• Design and implement continuous integration flow for PHP/Zend projects

Lead Developer

• Coordinate teams and developed PHP and Coldfusion web sites and applications with mssql and mysql as db systems
• Integrated with with other systems for real-time processing using SOAP webservices
• Implemented redmine for bug-tracking
• Creating uniform solution for test servers infrastructure
• Creating Facebook applications
• Extending CMS functionality for better SEO
• Implemented monitoring solution for production/test servers based on Nagios
• e-commerce platform extensions - grouping products for special offers, create flows for automatic processing
• Extending current integration with Siebel for for managing assets of customers
• Creating scripts for hands-off deployments
• Developed system based on queues for processing and formating data into PDF's with high performance in order to achive customer's KPIs.

Senior Coldfusion Developer

• Developed holiday planner solution
• RIA experience using ExtJS based on json webservices by developing a reporting interface for Vodafone Qatar
• Implementing various jQuery libraries
• Upgrading projects to newer version of CMS
• Created Single Sign On system for an intranet portal
• Working direcly with Vodafone Qatar and it's vendors on-site, in order to:
  • Complete speficications for new version of e-commerce portal
  • Provide tehnical support during SIT and UAT
  • Communicate with other vendors in order to complete the integration

Technical Coordinator

• Creating an intranet platform using Coldfusion, IIS7 and MySQL.
• Redesign global intranet system on php/symfony/mysql for events, memebers and partners management
• Created Active Directory based user system
• Integrated Google Apps Standard into organization as email, calendar and document sharing platform
• Developed and implemented the workflow for the recruitment procedure

Junior System Administrator

• Managing windows dedicated and shared servers.
• Interacting with the customers and assisting them in resolving various issues related to our hosting service
• Implementing automatic setup for dedicated servers trought WDS(Windows Deployment System)

Side projects

• HTML5/PHP/Symfony/Doctrine/Geolocation project
• Technological fesability study and implementation of a beta version of a restaurant reservation system - PHP/Symfony/MySQL
• Optimizing remote access and data storage - Linux, Samba,
• SEO optimization and bug fixes(inherited) for teentraining.ro and unno.ro - PHP OS commerce
• Creating mailing system for MediHelp - PHP/MYSQL, SMTP
• Creating an online version for highschool yearbook - PHP/MYSQL
• Working on e-breaza.ro for online ads - PHP/MYSQL

PHP

• Created sites for presentation and e-commerce
• Websites with both mysql and mssql databases
• Used Doctrine as ORM
• platforms: Drupal, Symfony, Joomla, Wordpress, Zend

Databases

• Experice working with mySQL, MSSQL, Oracle.
• Creating and optimizing stored procedures.
• Experience with transactions, indexes and triggers and concurrency problems.
• SSIS - data migration
• Experince with LDAP

Coldfusion

• Farcry - CMS
• Fusebox - MVC
• Integration with external systems using SOAP webservices
• Integration with LDAP for authtentification
• Integration with 2D,2.5D and 3D Secure payment systems
• Consumed and created SOAP Webservices

Integration

• Created and consumed SOAP and json webservices
• Integration with REST services
• Integration and developed Short Message gateways
• Creating queue system for data processing

Javascript/RIA

• Working with jQuery, extJS librabries.
• Extending user experience through javascript.
• Form validation client side
• Make use of AJAX and JSON in order to improve interaction with sites.

Java

• Developing deamon for monitoring system.
• Using various Java components trough Coldfusion.

Other technologies

• BPM - Developed workflow for eeStec recruitment
• BASH scripting - creating automation scripts for deployment
• Usage of various APIs from foursquare, facebook, google and twitter
• Siebel - Consumed webservices exposed
• OOP design patterns - Developed an extendable system for monitoring services
• HTML4, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS - Developed or integrated the interface for most of the sites
• CMS - Experince integrating Farcry CMS, Joomla!, Drupal and Wordpress
• Middleware - Integrated CIL with the e-commerce platform
• Security and user management - Implemented Active Directory

Personality

• Hard Working
• Reliable
• Focused on the goal
• Team spirit
• Quick learner
• Tech addict

For reviews and other opinions see my LinkedIn profile http://ro.linkedin.com/in/alexbumbacea

Foreign languages

Romanian American University

• Member of NGO eeStec LC Bucharest
• Awarded 1'st prize for "Scientific Communication Session" for year 2009-2010

National Military Highschool "Dimitrie Cantemir"

• Second place in 3'rd study year at Informatics Contenst
• Created electronic year book using PHP and MySQL