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Verified Expert in Engineering
Agile Software Development Developer
Bucharest, Romania
Toptal member since April 14, 2016
Bio
Radu started coding around 2004 as a freelancer. He had a rating of 4.9/5 stars and a repeated hire rate of 58% from over 500 completed projects. Like almost any developer, he is self-taught and highly independent. He prefers working remotely in distributed teams all over the world. He is a full-stack web developer, working mainly in PHP for the back-end and loving Vue.js for the front-end.
Portfolio
VKC Travel Group LLC t/a Travel 6 Degrees
JavaScript, Full-stack, API Integration, Node.js, Agile Software Development...
Government
Agile Software Development, Jira, GIS, Angular, C#.NET, ArcGIS Server...
Authentic Ireland
CakePHP, WordPress, JavaScript
Experience
- PHP - 12 years
- MySQL - 12 years
- Linux - 10 years
- CakePHP - 5 years
- Node.js - 5 years
- React - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Linux, Bitbucket, Jira, JetBrains IDE, SourceTree, Assembla, Payment APIs, eCommerce
The most amazing...
...thing I've made was a complex niche social network website where people could buy and wear virtual Viennese masks.
Work Experience
Full-stack Developer
2026 - 2026
VKC Travel Group LLC t/a Travel 6 Degrees
- Built a hotel-search aggregator API that fans out a single query in parallel to booking providers, isolating each on its own Redis queue, so one slow provider never blocks results, cutting end-to-end search time.
- Delivered cost-effective rates to clients directly through the API by integrating provider feeds at the source, removing markup-laden intermediaries, and giving advisors live pricing on millions of hotels.
- Engineered a real-time results pipeline using WebSockets (Laravel Reverb) that streams provider prices to the PrimeVue front end progressively as they arrive, so advisors see and act on rates without waiting for the full search to finish.
- Designed a hotel matching and deduplication engine that reconciles results from disparate providers against a canonical hotel database using a weighted scoring algorithm (geo distance, name similarity, phone, and address).
- Created a destination-clustering system that maps each provider's proprietary destination IDs to a single canonical search area, so one advisor query resolves correctly across every provider at once.
- Built the advisor-facing front end in PrimeVue (Vue 3), delivering an intuitive search and booking interface that streamlined advisor onboarding and cut training time, letting new advisors run live searches and build trips on day one.
- Implemented an end-to-end trips, bookings, and invoicing module with multi-currency support and exchange rates locked at invoice time, plus single and bulk PDF export, replacing manual spreadsheet workflows.
Technologies: JavaScript, Full-stack, API Integration, Node.js, Agile Software Development, Laravel, Vue, Redis, PrimeVue, Sockets, MariaDB, Global Distribution Systems (GDS)
Head of Software Development
2017 - 2022
Government
- Implemented an Agile working environment to smooth the software development process, increasing the company's overall efficiency.
- Developed and implemented high-availability software products for the defense industry.
- Implemented a personal development program for our team members.
Technologies: Agile Software Development, Jira, GIS, Angular, C#.NET, ArcGIS Server, OpenLayers, PHP, Laravel, Nova, Git, Ionic, Electron, Architecture, React, Web Scraping, API Integration
CakePHP, JavaScript, and WordPress Expert
2016 - 2019
Authentic Ireland
- Developed the back end used by the destination experts to build customized travel experiences with API linked to hotels, attractions, experiences, and car rental companies.
- Developed front-end tools using Angular for managing travel reservations.
- Worked on DevOps infrastructure-related tasks to automate testing and deployment.
- Implemented advanced Google Tag Manager for advanced goal conversion tracking, even offline. Created Google analytics complex funnels.
Technologies: CakePHP, WordPress, JavaScript
Back-End Developer
2014 - 2016
baseklas™ (Philadelphia, PA, US)
- baseklas™ is a full-service tech boutique that offers managed web technology services and builds beautiful websites and usable and functional custom applications.
- Implemented a standardized development workflow for the team using Git and automated deployments.
Technologies: JavaScript, CakePHP, PHP
Full-Stack Web Developer
2011 - 2014
CoreLiquid Switzerland (Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Created a framework for building responsive, single page web applications that used CakePHP as a back-end.
Technologies: Socket.IO, JavaScript, HTML5, Node.js, PHP
Experience
Niche Social Network
A project built back in 2012 that wanted to protect the user's privacy in the cyber world.
Nice looking virtual Viennese masks are available to protect the avatar picture.
The user profile is built almost entirely using easy-to-understand icons. In this way the profile looks far more appealing.
For making the user interface more responsive, I created a JavaScript framework closely integrated with CakePHP.
Nice looking virtual Viennese masks are available to protect the avatar picture.
The user profile is built almost entirely using easy-to-understand icons. In this way the profile looks far more appealing.
For making the user interface more responsive, I created a JavaScript framework closely integrated with CakePHP.
MagicHost
https://www.magichost.ro/An automating small personal startup for hosting for eCommerce sellers.
An interesting update that I added was to recently include free automated Let's Encrypt SSL certificates with every domain created.
An interesting update that I added was to recently include free automated Let's Encrypt SSL certificates with every domain created.
Ecommy
A technical blog and a shop for selling my popular PrestaShop plugin (used by over 500 shops).
Dictio
https://www.dictio.roA very popular dictionary and machine translation personal website built back in 2007.
MrCashback
A personal startup business that is a fully automatic cashback website built using a CakePHP framework and Bash scripting.
Real-Time Well Site Data
A website that improves drilling economics by specializing in the secure organization and delivery of all static and real-time well site data.
Technologies used: SVG, PHP, Perl, Bash scripting, and GIS.
Technologies used: SVG, PHP, Perl, Bash scripting, and GIS.
Premium Dental Editing
This project was built when I was working at baseklas™. It offers dental scientists a platform to improve their manuscripts.
Technologies used: CakePHP and HTML5.
Technologies used: CakePHP and HTML5.
Custom CakePHP CMS
Modular custom CMS built on top of cakephp.
It has plugins for galleries, sliders, custom forms, page templates, events, news, document manager and different custom ones for specific needs.
System is in use by tens of clients from restaurants to various institutions.
It has plugins for galleries, sliders, custom forms, page templates, events, news, document manager and different custom ones for specific needs.
System is in use by tens of clients from restaurants to various institutions.
Online System to Manage Legal Cases
Built on top of a CakePHP framework, the project aims to provide an easy to use interface in order for legal advisers from all over the country to have a centralized way to collaborate and manage their legal cases.
The killer feature is a way to create teams that can cover certain counties depending on the number of open cases.
In the end, the whole country is evenly covered so the institution is more efficient and responsive (there is also a central dashboard with graphical representations of team distribution and number of open cases).
The killer feature is a way to create teams that can cover certain counties depending on the number of open cases.
In the end, the whole country is evenly covered so the institution is more efficient and responsive (there is also a central dashboard with graphical representations of team distribution and number of open cases).
Education
2014 - 2014
Certificate of Completion Degree in Online Marketing
Online Marketing Academy via ASE University - Bucharest, Romania
2013 - 2013
Certificate of Completion Degree in Microsoft SharePoint, Application Development
Microsoft Course 10175A - Bucharest, Romania
2007 - 2007
Oracle Database Administrator Certification Degree in Database Administration for Oracle 10g
Oracle University - Bucharest, Romania
2002 - 2007
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering
IT Technical University - Bucharest, Romania
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Socket.IO, React, Node.js, OpenLayers, Vue, PrimeVue, Sockets
Tools
PrestaShop, Jira, Bitbucket, Webpack, GIS, SourceTree, Assembla, Git
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, C#.NET
Frameworks
CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Angular, Laravel, Nova, Ionic, Electron
Paradigms
Agile Software Development
Platforms
Linux, NetBeans, OpenStack, Magento, WordPress, ArcGIS Server, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Storage
MySQL, Memcached, PostgreSQL, Redis, MariaDB
Other
Payment APIs, eCommerce, Architecture, Web Scraping, API Integration, Full-stack, VMware ESXi, JetBrains IDE, Global Distribution Systems (GDS)
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