Vlad Nistorica
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Paris, France
Toptal member since January 24, 2017
Vlad has a master's degree from Politehnica University of Bucharest and specializes in advanced software services. He has over ten years of experience as a full-stack developer in companies like Yahoo and Bitdefender. Vlad has mainly worked with Angular, Node.js, MongoDB, MySQL, and Redis on Amazon or Google Cloud.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 6 years
- MySQL - 6 years
- Redis - 6 years
- Git - 6 years
- Node.js - 6 years
- Kubernetes - 3 years
- Docker - 3 years
- Google Cloud - 3 years
Work Experience
Founder
AtlasDevStudio
- Implemented MVPs for various clients like marmelade.io, UgoFresh, and getwebstack.com. Used serverless technologies like Cloud Run to maintain low costs.
- Implemented Kubernetes infrastructure for various clients.
- Acted as a tech lead for teams, participating in architecture design and product roadmap definition while guiding the team to adhere to the Agile framework.
Co-founder
Booktr.ee
- Integrated 12 partner bookshops as affiliates from Romania, bringing us to 400,000 books.
- Defined the roadmap and the features implemented in the MVP and after.
- Launched the MVP in one month and validated the initial idea. Reached 250 users and 60 books sold.
Full-stack Developer
Yahoo!
- Designed and implemented, with the help of two other colleagues, a funnel graphic of how an online ad converts from an opportunity to an impression, which helped our clients easily see what problems they could have in serving ads.
- Designed and implemented the notification system on Yahoo DSP.
- Worked on various other smaller features and bug fixes.
Web Developer
Bitdefender
- Developed various new features for the Gravity Zone product, such as different components like the administrative console, which uses PHP, JavaScript, and MongoDB. Worked on a Node.js-based communication server.
- Created a generic job processor/scheduler and worker management. It was integrated into Reports Builder feature. It uses PHP for worker management, Node.js, and Cron syntax for scheduling. It can be used with queues like RabbitMQ, Gearman, and Redis.
- Researched new technologies that can be integrated with the products like Neo4J and Gearman.
- Integrated technologies like VMware vCenter with NSX and Bitdefender app control.
- Built an app as a demo for the internship, which managed Amazon virtual machines using PHP, Ext JavaScript, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, and Amazon API.
Drupal Web Developer
Zitec
- Proposed a solution for migrating the site http://www.st.com/, to Drupal. Built a custom module that takes the site's structure as input as an XML file and automatically creates and updates pages.
- Participated in internal courses for JavaScript, PHP, MySQL, and Drupal 7.
- Worked within the Paravion.ro team, which implemented new features and maintained the site.
- Directly managed client requests for the projects that I was assigned.
Project History
Article | How Many People are Needed for a Crowdsensing Campaign?
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7737173/GRT Benchmark | Intel Scholarship
https://github.com/vladnis/GRT-BenchmarkCo-founder of Booktr.ee
Education
Master's Degree in Advanced Software Services
Politehnica University of Bucharest - Bucharest, Romania
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Politehnica University of Bucharest - Bucharest, Romania
Skills
Libraries/APIs
Node.js, React
Tools
Mercurial, PhpStorm, Git, CircleCI, Android NDK, Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS)
Languages
PHP, TypeScript, Python, JavaScript, CSS, HTML, SQL, Bash, C, C++, Java
Frameworks
Express.js, Next.js, Hadoop, Spark, AngularJS, Ext JS, Angular, Django, Tailwind CSS
Storage
Databases, MongoDB, MySQL, Redis, Google Cloud, NoSQL
Paradigms
Agile, MapReduce, Web Architecture, DevOps
Platforms
Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apache Kafka, Ubuntu, Drupal, Android, Linux, Unix
Other
APIs, Full-stack, Front-end, Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Back-end, Algorithms, Cloud Infrastructure, Architecture, Infrastructure, Maps, CI/CD Pipelines, Computer Science, Web Development, Software Architecture, Cloud Architecture, Serverless, Amazon RDS, ECS, Data Modeling
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