Bogdan is available for hire

Bogdan Iancu

Verified Expert in Engineering

Software Developer

Location

Bucharest, Romania

Toptal Member Since

November 25, 2020

Bogdan is a software developer with more than 14 years of experience working for large European corporations. He has full-stack development skills with a focus on ASP.NET and Xamarin/.NET MAUI. He holds a PhD in computer science and teaches software development as an associate professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Bogdan founded Facem Soft in 2018 to have a more flexible working environment as a trainer and as a freelancer.

Mobile App Development Visual Studio C#.NET C#.NET Relational Databases JSON Java Front-end Back-end Xamarin.Forms Web Development Metrics Windows Xamarin Windows Phone Ontology Mono

Portfolio

Facem Soft

Consulting, Software Development, Training & Training Content Development...

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Security Analysis, Java, C#, C++...

Cegeka

AngularJS, ASP.NET, Xamarin, .NET, C#, Xamarin.Android, SQL...

Experience

Xamarin - 10 years C# - 10 years .NET - 10 years Software Development - 10 years Database Design - 8 years Semantic Web - 7 years ASP.NET - 5 years Software Project Management - 4 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

ASP.NET, Xamarin, Visual Studio, MacOS, Windows

The most amazing...

...app that I've developed was CleverTaxi for Windows Phone. The application was lately bought by Free Now, an European competitor of Uber.

Work Experience

Owner | Founder

2018 - PRESENT

Facem Soft

Founded a startup dedicated to IT training programs, software development on-demand, and software development consulting for small companies.
Delivered over 600 hours of IT training to more than 500 employees.
Collaborated with large European companies as a freelancer and/or a trainer.

Technologies: Consulting, Software Development, Training, Training & Training Content Development, Architecture, Java, Spring Boot, Relational Databases

Associate Professor, PhD

2012 - PRESENT

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Taught different labs and courses related to software development, such as object-oriented programming, Android development, Java programming, software quality and testing, design patterns, and source code security.
Joined different research projects related to software development or cybersecurity.
Reviewed articles for different research journals and international conferences. Also worked as an editor for some of the journals and conferences.

Technologies: Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Security Analysis, Java, C#, C++, University Teaching, Relational Databases, Design Patterns

Application Developer

2014 - 2017

Cegeka

Developed several mobile apps using Xamarin native and Xamarin.Forms that were used by the Netherlands' real estate market.
Built modules for a SPA website (a single-page application) accessed by real estate agencies' clients.
Coordinated junior developers and created their learning and development plans.

Technologies: AngularJS, ASP.NET, Xamarin, .NET, C#, Xamarin.Android, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Relational Databases

World Sales Tools Developer

2012 - 2014

Gameloft

Developed an app to extract, process, and present data related to the users' behavior in various report formats.
Worked with big data technologies to apply the MapReduce programming model.
Used data science methodologies to compute the required KPIs based on existing data.

Technologies: PostgreSQL, MySQL, COM Interop, .NET, C#, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Relational Databases, ASP.NET

Software Developer

2010 - 2012

Dertour

Created and maintained an app used by all travel agencies across the country to manage their daily tasks (booking, tickets, paperwork, invoicing, reports, and others).
Built a page-scrapping module to automate some booking processes that were done manually.
Developed new features requested by customers, offered customer support, and fixed reported bugs.

Technologies: PostgreSQL, Mono, ASP.NET, C#, SQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Relational Databases

Experience

Teach.me

Teach.me was a website developed as a demo for the research work done for my PhD thesis. The website used web crawlers to index semantic information about YouTube e-learning videos automatically. The user could search by video content rather than by keywords. A knowledge map was also available for any search query.

InspectionApp

https://www.microsoft.com/nl-nl/p/verhuurapp-r16fp0/9nblggh4wjxk

InspectionApp is a mobile app developed in Xamarin for iOS and Windows tablets used by real estate agents in order to do on-field inspections of rental properties. Various clients use the app in Cegeka, the Netherlands.

Customer Portal

A single-page application developed in ASP.NET Web API (back end) and AngularJS (front end) used by tenants from the Dutch market to add issues, meter readings, and other details about rental properties.

CleverTaxi for Windows Phone

CleverTaxi was a mobile app similar to Uber developed as a taxi service aggregator for the Romanian market. The app was later launched in foreign markets and bought in 2019 by Free Now, a German company.

Skills

Languages

C#, Java, C#.NET, C++, SQL, HTML5

Frameworks

Ontology Framework, .NET, ASP.NET, Spring Boot, Mono, AngularJS, OAuth 2, ASP.NET MVC, .NET Core

Tools

Visual Studio

Paradigms

Object-oriented Programming (OOP), Database Design, Clean Code, Agile, Cross-platform, RESTful Development, Data Science, Design Patterns

Storage

JSON, Relational Databases, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Databases, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB

Other

Software Development, Software Analysis, Semantic Web, Ontologies, Training, Mobile App Development, Training & Training Content Development, Consulting, University Teaching, Security Analysis, Xamarin.Mac, APIs, Front-end, Leadership, Mobile Architecture, Architecture, Cross-platform App Development, Back-end, Xamarin.Forms, Web Development, Metrics, .NET MAUI, Software Project Management, COM Interop, Video Editing, Data Warehousing, Data Warehouse Design

Libraries/APIs

Xamarin.iOS, REST APIs, Xamarin.Android, Web API, Entity Framework

Platforms

Windows, Xamarin, Windows Phone, Android, Oracle, MacOS, iOS, Azure

Industry Expertise

E-learning

Education

2012 - 2015

Ph.D. Degree in Computer Science

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania

2010 - 2012

Master's Degree in Computer Science

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania

2007 - 2010

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania

Certifications

SEPTEMBER 2018 - PRESENT

Core Strategies for Teaching in Higher Ed

MARCH 2018 - PRESENT

C# 6.0 Certified

SkillValue

MARCH 2018 - PRESENT

OOP Certified

SkillValue

MARCH 2013 - PRESENT

Certified Trainer

National Authority for Qualifications

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