Passionate, dynamic and detail-oriented specialist, with a track record of achieving breakthrough efficiency and driving client satisfaction. Having more than 10 years experience with software engineering, web development, e-commerce and information security, I can easily join new teams and projects, bringing valuable skills in all stages of software development.
https://linkedin.com/in/costinsoare
https://github.com/soarecostin
Avignon, FR
Work Experience
Full-Stack Web Developer (Remote)
- Co-ordinated, designed and developed a SaaS platform for medical organizations to offer Second Opinions
- Architected the platform as a Hybrid-SaaS, deployable on client premises or in cloud
- Implemented EHR security and privacy standards: file encryption at rest, advanced ACL, two-factor auth
- Engineered the platform to support multiple languages, currencies and payment gateways
- Developed a themeable Saas solution customized for >10 clients to generate unique brand-matching styles
- Gained exposure to advanced Laravel/PHP features: Multiple auth guards, Policies, Passport, Queues, chunk uploads
- Leveraged knowledge in Laravel, Vue, Sass, Unit and integration testing, Package development, AWS
Full-Stack Web Developer (Remote)
- Joined a small team of 4 devs and collaborated in an Agile Kanban methodology to build an eCommerce platform, integrated with 2 ERPs and managed over 10 websites with increased sales and traffic year over year
- Participated in daily meetings with the team and with clients, recommended, planned and presented new features
- Solved traffic spikes challenges and increased page loads by up to 50% by using website optimization techniques
- Revamped product pages and refined CMS features to help the marketing efforts
- Transformed Johnston Press news sites by building 2 Wordpress themes, over 5 plugins & progressive web apps
- Leveraged knowledge in PHP, MySQL, Wordpress, JavaScript/ES6, jQuery, CSS/Sass, Service Workers, ITCSS
Square Games
Software Engineer
- Built 5 multiplayer social network games published on Facebook as SPAs (PHP, JavaScript, Facebook Graph API)
Software Projects
Open Source Package Development
- FileVault A package to encrypt large files at rest in Laravel
- Laravel Blade Components A collection of Blade Components for quick & easy forms in Bootstrap, Bulma, and TailwindCSS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Management System
- Engineered a back-end system for Discoveries Journals to facilitate the management of peer-reviewed articles
- Automated the export of articles in NISO JATS (XML) for upload on databases like MEDLINE and trained staff members to use the new system to increase efficiency
- Leveraged knowledge in PHP, Symfony components, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Texture (by Substance.io)
Education & Certifications
Economic Cybernetics, Statistics & Computer Science - ASE Bucharest, RO
- MS: IT&C Security and Cybersecurity, Sep 2009 – Jun 2011
- BS: Computer Science, Sep 2006 - Jun 2009
- Programming Coursework: Data Structures, Operating Systems, OOP in Java, C++ and C#, Algorithms, DBMS