Laura Avram
Verified Expert in Engineering
Apollo Developer
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj County, Romania
Toptal member since May 9, 2019
Laura is a software engineer with over five years of experience in JavaScript and web-related frameworks, mostly React. She's helped develop web apps for different business domains, such as finance and healthcare. These projects were based in different countries, giving Laura the opportunity to interact with people from various cultural backgrounds and work in distributed teams.
Portfolio
Experience
- JavaScript - 10 years
- React - 10 years
- TypeScript - 8 years
- CSS - 6 years
- Visual Studio Code (VS Code) - 3 years
- Next.js - 2 years
- Apollo - 2 years
- Node.js - 2 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
The most amazing...
...project I've worked on is a rich text online editor using HTML5, React, and Mocha for integration tests.
Work Experience
Senior Front-end Engineer
Asimov
- Developed a CAD for genetic designing to help biologists design better therapies.
- Worked remotely in a distributed team using Slack and GitHub Issues as collaboration tools.
- Performed tests on the React client using Jest and Storybook.
- Added continuous integration and delivery using GitHub.
- Developed a shared components library based on Radix UI.
Web Developer
Artland
- Supported a web application implementing server-side rendering using Next.js and Express.js.
- Worked remotely in a distributed team using Slack, Favro, and GitHub as collaboration tools.
- Implemented a React client using Apollo Client and generated React components using Apollo Codegen.
- Performed tests on the React client using Jest and Storybook.
- Added continuous integration and delivery using Bitrise and Heroku.
Web Developer
Evozon
- Developed an online, rich text editor based solely on HTML5 and using React where appropriate.
- Added Karma tests to the online rich text editor using Mocha.
- Maintained an application that streamlined internal company processes using React, TypeScript, and MobX.
- Built a web management system used by a global NGO to manage projects and resources using React, Redux, GraphQL, and Office UI Fabric.
- Added custom validation to the management system forms using Office UI Fabric.
Developer
Yonder
- Participated in an internship on Java focused on CRUD functionalities using Hibernate and Lambda on an SQL database.
- Developed a Windows native financial application using WPF.
- Added cross-browser support on a pharmaceutical application using jQuery and CSS3.
- Maintained and helped develop a banking application using Web Forms.
- Learned SVN via TortoiseSVN and created pre-commit hooks.
Android Developer
Finmouse
- Created an Android application for teaching children about the world around us.
- Used Java and an SQLite database to manage the application.
- Created an overlay that can be erased on touch and swiped to reveal part of the image behind.
- Used WebView to display various web pages in the Android application.
- Created different activities and services for the Android application and integrated an SQLite database.
Experience
Artland
I have worked completely remotely in a distributed team using Slack, Favro, and GitHub as collaboration tools.
Save the Children International Award Management System
http://ams.savethechildren.netTrados Online Editor
The client specializes in the niche of online translations providing different solutions for this exact purpose. I joined a front-end team and we implemented features like concurrent editing and formatting have custom solutions.
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering
Babes-Bolyai University - Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Skills
Libraries/APIs
React, MobX, Redux Form, Immutable.js, Lodash, React Router, SignalR, Node.js, jQuery, jQuery UI, Google Analytics API, Stitches, Vanilla Extract CSS, React DnD, TanStack Table, Playwright
Tools
Git, React Apollo, Mongoose, WebStorm, Grunt, Gulp, Mocha, Karma, TFS, Subversion (SVN), Webpack, Sentry, Facebook Pixel, Google Analytics, Yarn Workspaces
Languages
JavaScript, JavaScript 6, JavaScript 5, TypeScript, GraphQL, CSS, HTML, XML, Java, HTML5, SQL, C#, Lisp, Bash, TypeScript 3, Python 3
Frameworks
Material UI, Redux, Office UI Fabric, Next.js, ASP.NET, Express.js, Jest, Tailwind CSS, Relay, Yarn
Paradigms
Agile, REST, Concurrent Programming, Functional Programming
Platforms
Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Android, OS X, Windows, Heroku
Storage
MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, JSON, SQLite, Datadog
Other
Front-end, Apollo, Storybook, Vi, Segment, Full-stack, Software Engineering, Radix UI, GraphQL Code Generator
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