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Iulian Popescu

Verified Expert in Engineering

Mobile Developer

Location

Brașov, Brașov County, Romania

Toptal Member Since

February 22, 2022

Iulian is a passionate algorithm learner, a problem solver, and a mobile software developer with excellent communication skills, creativity, and a positive attitude. For five years, he helped launch multiple projects around the world, making a switch for the past two years into the automotive industry, where he worked on navigation and eCommerce apps for some of the biggest OEMs. Iulian enjoys sharing knowledge by proposing solutions and providing fixes on Stack Overflow.

Android Kotlin Algorithms Git Android Studio Java iOS Bluetooth MacOS Firebase Android SDK Xcode Jenkins Google Maps Cucumber

Portfolio

Telenav

Android, Android Auto, Location Services, Kotlin, Commerce, REST, Android SDK...

Rodeapps

iOS, Android, REST, Firebase, Testing, Kotlin, Java, Android SDK...

Experience

Mobile - 8 years Git - 7 years Android Studio - 6 years Android - 6 years Testing - 5 years Architecture - 5 years Kotlin - 4 years Java - 3 years

Availability

Full-time

Preferred Environment

Android Studio, MacOS

The most amazing...

...app I've worked on is HRS Hotel Search: the app has over one million downloads and many nifty features like geofencing, remote flags, and remote databases.

Work Experience

Android Engineer

2019 - PRESENT

Telenav

Provided maintenance support for a navigation system developed for Toyota.
Developed a highly configurable UI SDK that provided in-car commerce features.
Designed a business-logic SDK to power the UI SDK mentioned above, which summarizes and provides easier integration with other systems developed by Telenav.
Migrated one of the modules from the above SDK to pure Kotlin code and used the KMM plugin to generate Android and iOS libraries from a single codebase.

Technologies: Android, Android Auto, Location Services, Kotlin, Commerce, REST, Android SDK, Android Studio, Java, Mobile, Git

Mobile Developer

2014 - 2019

Rodeapps

Worked on a hotel reservation app with over 1 million downloads on Android devices.
Developed a parking reservation app that runs both on Android and iOS.
Collaborated with several companies around the world, helping them kick-start their projects until they could find a local developer to hire. The average interaction time was four to six months.

Technologies: iOS, Android, REST, Firebase, Testing, Kotlin, Java, Android SDK, Android Studio, Xcode, Mobile, Git, Jenkins, Push Notifications

Experience

Hotel Search HRS

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hrs.b2c.android&hl=en&gl=US

HRS is a hotel reservation app focusing on corporate travel to make booking management easier and faster. This is an old project written in Kotlin and Java, with some powerful technologies like Firebase that provided an easy runtime configuration of the app. Performed extensive unit and UI testing integrating with Jenkins and running the tests nightly.

Scout GPS Link

https://www.scoutgpslink.com/

Scout GPS Link provides the navigation system used in some Toyota and Lexus car models. It is a legacy project written mainly in Java with only a few new classes in Kotlin. I contributed to the system by developing features to improve the connection with the car and fixed critical bugs during the maintenance stage.

THE ICONIC

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.theiconic.android&hl=en&gl=US

THE ICONIC is an Android fashion shopping app developed to create a great UI experience. I helped the team set up the project until they found a developer to hire at their office in Australia. We used Cucumber to translate user stories into test cases.

Renault Mobility (Rebranded as Mobilize Share)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rcimobility.renaultmobility.b2c&hl=en_US&gl=US

An Android application that's designed to book a car easily; you can lock or unlock a car using a Bluetooth connection and also pay. The project was written in Java with a rich and easy-to-use UI along with a complex business logic that handled the interaction with the car.

Skillset

Languages

Kotlin, Java

Platforms

Android, Mobile, iOS, MacOS, Firebase

Tools

Android Studio, Git, Android Auto, Xcode, Jenkins, Cucumber

Paradigms

Testing, REST

Other

Architecture, Algorithms, Location Services, Commerce, Push Notifications, Bluetooth

Frameworks

Android SDK

Libraries/APIs

Google Maps

Education

2013 - 2016

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Babes-Bolyai University - Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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