Tiberius Florea, Developer in Irvine, CA, United States
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Tiberius Florea

Bio

Tiberius is a generalist software engineer with years of experience across front end, back end, and infrastructure. He worked remotely on infrastructure at Plaid (2017-2022), a San Francisco-based fintech company. Previously, Tiberius worked at Google (2013-2017), contributing to Search, Maps for Business, and Translate. He completed several freelance projects through Toptal and earned a computer science degree from Brown University, with summer internships at Microsoft and Facebook (twice).

Portfolio

Plaid
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Go...
Google
Templates, User Interface (UI), C++, Python, JavaScript, Front-end Development...
Google
Java, C++, Django, Python, Back-end, Databases, Full-stack Development...

Experience

  • Web - 7 years
  • Python - 6 years
  • Back-end - 5 years
  • Java - 5 years
  • C++ - 5 years
  • Databases - 3 years
  • CSS - 2 years
  • JavaScript - 2 years

Preferred Environment

Python, TypeScript, Go, Docker, Amazon Web Services (AWS), CI/CD Pipelines, APIs, Testing

The most amazing...

...product I've worked on is translate.google.com, which reached hundreds of millions of users every month.

Work Experience

Software Engineer

2017 - 2022
Plaid
  • Ensured stability, reliability, and performance of Plaid products by maintaining a robust infrastructure (deployments, automated testing, etc).
  • Provided product and back-end engineers with the means to deploy, debug, and iterate on their services.
  • Handled infrastructure emergencies as part of a 24/7 on-call rotation and fixed service/infrastructure integration issues (either alone or in collaboration with service owners) when the infrastructure abstractions provided had gaps.
  • Implemented Plaid's integration with one major financial institution.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD Pipelines, Jenkins, Go, TypeScript, Web Scraping, APIs, API Integration, Integration, Integrations, Full-stack Development, SQL, Communication, Technical Architecture, Software Architecture, Code Review, Screeners, Interviewing, GitHub, Back-end Architecture, Debugging, MongoDB, REST APIs, JSON, System Administration, Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Software Engineer

2016 - 2017
Google
  • Led the development of the Google Translate web app (translate.google.com - desktop and mobile).
  • Designed, implemented, tested, and launched new user-visible features in C++ and Java.
  • Improved app reliability and performance: fewer crashes, faster load times.
  • Increased code health and simplified app architecture.
  • Mentored junior members of the team through design and code reviews.
Technologies: Templates, User Interface (UI), C++, Python, JavaScript, Front-end Development, Microservices, Web, CSS, API Integration, Integration, Full-stack Development, Google Maps, Code Review, Interviewing, Debugging, REST APIs, APIs, Full-stack

Software Engineer

2013 - 2015
Google
  • Used C++ and Python to serve promotional content on high-traffic properties like the Google homepage.
  • Created Python and Django tools that enabled marketing specialists to create and target promo campaigns.
  • Used Java and C++ to help migrate Google's web server for Search to a better templating system.
  • Revamped the C++ authentication and authorization system of MyMaps and other Geo products.
  • Used Java and data pipelines to run large offline processing jobs on Geo ACLs and other data.
Technologies: Java, C++, Django, Python, Back-end, Databases, Full-stack Development, Code Review, Debugging, Back-end Development

Back-end Engineer

2012 - 2013
UberVU
  • Created Python features for a social media marketing application.
  • Wrote Python tests for a social media marketing application.
  • Gave feedback to coworkers through GitHub code reviews.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitHub, Python, Code Review

Software Engineering Intern

2011 - 2011
Facebook
  • Added and improved various site integrity (security) features in C++ and PHP.
  • Wrote a framework for detecting spikes of unusual activity on Facebook in C++.
  • Improved and tested Facebook's CAPTCHA server in C++.
  • Used a proprietary Ruby framework to write integration tests.
Technologies: Ruby, PHP, C++, Code Review, Debugging

Software Engineering Intern

2010 - 2010
Facebook
  • Created and improved new Facebook ad formats (video ads, ads with polls, and more).
  • Analyzed Facebook ads data using tools like Apache Hive.
  • Reviewed and gave feedback on coworkers' pull requests.
Technologies: Apache Hive, PHP, Code Review, Debugging

Software Development Engineer in Test

2007 - 2007
Microsoft
  • Wrote C# tools for testing Speech Recognition engines corresponding to various natural languages.
  • Packaged and distributed newly created tools to other Microsoft employees.
  • Learned about speech recognition technology and how it was applied at Microsoft.
Technologies: Visual Studio, C#

Experience

Google Translate

https://translate.google.com/
I was responsible for serving infrastructure and client code for the web apps, as opposed to Translate in Search, Translate in Chrome, or the iOS and Android native apps. I designed, implemented, tested, and launched new features, while also fixing product and deployment issues as they arose.

Google MyMaps

I worked on the C++ back end used by Google My Maps and other Geo products like the now-deprecated Google Maps Engine. My main project was revamping the authorization and authentication architecture without disrupting users.

Expense Tracker

This project is an expense-tracking application built with Backbone.js, Node.js, Express, and MongoDB. The code can't be shared publicly, but is available upon request. It was written as an exercise in order to join the Toptal platform in 2017.

IOI Silver Medal

I won Silver Medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics, representing Romania. I was also awarded the Silver at the Central European Olympiad and Gold at the Balkan Olympiad.

Video Translation and Subtitling Tool

This tool will take a video in a target language and perform the following:

• transcribe the audio
• translate the audio to a target language
• create subtitles for the video in the target language

Let's say you own a foreign film that lacks subtitles in your language. This tool will help you create them so you can watch the movie.

It was created through pair programming with Claude.
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Publication

Broad vs. Narrow Skillsets: Software Engineering Skills Demystified

https://www.toptal.com/developers/software/software-engineer-skills-and-skillsets

Education

2008 - 2012

Bachelor of Arts Degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Computer Science

Brown University - Providence, RI, USA

Skills

Libraries/APIs

Google Maps, REST APIs, Claude API

Tools

GitHub, Visual Studio, Jenkins, Claude, Claude Code, Whisper

Languages

Python, JavaScript, Go, Java, C++, CSS, TypeScript, SQL, Ruby, C#, PHP

Paradigms

Testing, Back-end Architecture, Microservices

Platforms

Web, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Docker, Kubernetes

Storage

JSON, Databases, Apache Hive, MongoDB

Frameworks

Django

Other

Back-end, Data Structures, Algorithms, Full-stack Development, Communication, Code Review, Interviewing, Debugging, Back-end Development, APIs, Web Scraping, API Integration, Integration, Integrations, Technical Architecture, Software Architecture, Screeners, Full-stack, System Administration, Cloud Infrastructure, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), User Interface (UI), Templates, CI/CD Pipelines, Computer Science, Software Development, Front-end Development, Artificial Intelligence (AI)

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