Experience

Five years of production backends.

From an online retailer in 44 countries to grocery delivery at scale and creator platforms.

Work

  1. Present

    Remote, Romania

    Senior Backend Developer (PHP)

    FameUp

    Shipping API features for a creator marketing platform and building its agentic development workflow.

    • Built an agentic bug-fixing pipeline: bugs reported in Slack are picked up, fixed and tested by an agent; developers only review and merge.
    • Cut network traffic by 95% by moving image delivery from S3 to Cloudflare Images: every image is resized on the fly to the exact format the mobile apps or the backend ask for, cached with targeted invalidation, and served from Cloudflare’s global CDN.
    • Improved CI/CD for agentic development: automatic deployment on merge, parallel tests, PHPStan at max level and AI code review.
    • Wrote agent skills that set a shared standard for AI-assisted development across the team.
    • Delivered creator referrals, gamification and barter collaborations.
    • PHP
    • Cloudflare Images
    • PHPStan
    • CodeRabbit
    • Claude Code
    • MCP
    • CI/CD

  2. Remote, Romania

    Senior Backend Developer (PHP, Go & Python)

    freshful.ro (eMAG)

    Backend for an online grocery delivery service, from order flows to route optimisation.

    • Cut pipeline runtime by almost 50% with parallel tests, fixture-based test databases and isolated Elasticsearch indexes.
    • Built DSO (Driver Shift Optimization), an OR-Tools service in Python and Go that lowered delivery costs by 37%.
    • Led technical analysis for large projects and acted as backend owner for OTP verification, vouchers and promotions.
    • Improved response times with New Relic profiling and fixed critical performance bugs.
    • Worked across AWS, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Redis, RabbitMQ and Elasticsearch.
    • PHP
    • Go
    • Python
    • OR-Tools
    • Elasticsearch
    • Redis
    • RabbitMQ
    • AWS
    • Kubernetes
    • Grafana

  3. Craiova and Timișoara, Romania

    PHP Developer

    NetRom Software

    Scalable PHP applications for an online retailer selling in 44 countries.

    • Developed and maintained high-traffic PHP applications.
    • Built internal REST microservices in Node.js.
    • Integrated third-party APIs and reduced response times of core flows.
    • Worked directly with the client on requirements and technical guidance.
    • PHP
    • Node.js
    • REST APIs
    • MySQL

Education

  • Master’s in Software Engineering

    Politehnica University of Timișoara

    Taught in English. Cloud computing, DevOps, advanced databases and distributed systems.

  • B.Sc. in Computer Engineering

    Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, Craiova

    Compiler design, object-oriented programming and databases.

Skills

Backend
  • PHP
  • Symfony
  • Laravel
  • API Platform
  • Node.js
  • NestJS
  • Go
  • Python
Frontend
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • React
  • Next.js
  • Astro
Data & messaging
  • MySQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Redis
  • Elasticsearch
  • RabbitMQ
  • BullMQ
  • Kafka
  • Couchbase
Infrastructure
  • AWS
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Terraform
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • Linux
AI tooling
  • Claude Code
  • MCP
  • Cursor
  • Agentic workflows
  • Prompt engineering
Practices
  • OOP
  • SOLID
  • Design patterns
  • Static analysis
  • CI/CD
  • Profiling