Founder and CEO
2010 - PRESENTMonitive.com- Built a self-sustaining business from scratch.
- Managed all aspects including development, sales, marketing, customer support, operations, and maintenance.
- Developed a distributed system with 20+ servers across 10+ countries over four continents.
- Designed and implemented a complete and fully automatic failover system to overcome service outages.
- Initially written in Kohana PHP, and afterward rewritten in Laravel and then Lumen.
Technologies: Data Queries, Database Architecture, JavaScript, Agile Project Management, Project Management, PHP, RESTful Web Services, Lumen, Laravel, Kohana, MongoDB, MySQLSenior PHP Developer
2019 - 2020Total Onion Development- Rewrote several websites backed by an in-house CMS.
- Participated in Scrum meetings such as planning, grooming, standup, review, and retrospective.
- Fixed various issues across multiple projects.
- Actively looked for ways to improve code or processes within the system.
Technologies: JavaScript, MySQL, APIs, Vue.js, CSS3, Twig, SymfonyLaravel PHP Developer
2019 - 2019Sukoon Technologies Limited- Rewrote an existing Ruby API into Laravel PHP, which served as the back end for a mobile app.
Technologies: PHP, RESTful Web Services, RESTful APIs, PostgreSQL, LaravelLead Developer
2016 - 2019Pulseradio Pty- Refactored a core CakePHP implementation.
- Implemented and designed two RESTful APIs, one as a Lumen application and one in CakePHP.
- Optimized site performance to handle 500% more trafic.
- Integrated payment processors such as Stripe, Braintree, and ZipMoney.
- Designed a distributed architecture for fast, scalable world-wide content delivery.
- Personally handled 300+ releases into production and all integrations with third-party services.
Technologies: Data Queries, Database Architecture, JavaScript, PHP, RESTful Web Services, Zip Money, BrainTree, Stripe, RESTful APIs, CakePHP, MySQLPHP Laravel Developer
2018 - 2018WNPRO- Migrated legacy PHP API into a modern, standardized Lumen PHP API with OAuth2 authentication.
- Rewrote a RESTful API with TDD, thus having all requests and scenarios automatically tested.
- Identified business logic and user roles and implemented authorization based on previously user-defined roles.
Technologies: PHP, RESTful Web Services, RESTful APIs, MySQL, Laravel, LumenTeam Leader
2009 - 2015Imobiliare.ro- Actively participated in top-level company meetings including strategy and budget.
- Successfully implemented scrum methodology within the company.
- Scaled technological capabilities to handle 1+ million requests per day.
- Organized work and flows to minimize wasted and increase productivity.
Technologies: Data Queries, Database Architecture, Project Management, Scrum, PHP, Certified Scrum Master, jQuery, MySQLSenior PHP Developer
2006 - 2009Imobiliare.ro- Adapted CodeIgniter PHP framework to suit business needs.
- Scaled information architecture to accommodate high traffic.
- Migrated data structures to optimise for speed.
- Implemented SOAP API that is still being used.
Technologies: Data Queries, Database Architecture, PHP, CodeIgniter, SOAP, MySQL