Radu Godza, Developer in Bucharest, Romania
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Radu Godza

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Bio

Radu started coding around 2004 as a freelancer. He had a rating of 4.9/5 stars and a repeated hire rate of 58% from over 500 completed projects. Like almost any developer, he is self-taught and highly independent. He prefers working remotely in distributed teams all over the world. He is a full-stack web developer, working mainly in PHP for the back-end and loving Vue.js for the front-end.

Portfolio

Government
Agile Software Development, Jira, GIS, Angular, C#.NET, ArcGIS Server...
Authentic Ireland
CakePHP, WordPress, JavaScript
baseklas™ (Philadelphia, PA, US)
JavaScript, CakePHP, PHP

Experience

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Linux, Bitbucket, Jira, JetBrains, SourceTree, Assembla, Payment APIs, eCommerce

The most amazing...

...thing I've made was a complex niche social network website where people could buy and wear virtual Viennese masks.

Work Experience

Head of Software Development

2017 - 2022
Government
  • Implemented an Agile working environment to smooth the software development process, increasing the company's overall efficiency.
  • Developed and implemented high-availability software products for the defense industry.
  • Implemented a personal development program for our team members.
Technologies: Agile Software Development, Jira, GIS, Angular, C#.NET, ArcGIS Server, OpenLayers, PHP, Laravel, Nova, Git, Ionic, Electron, Architecture

CakePHP, JavaScript, and WordPress Expert

2016 - 2019
Authentic Ireland
  • Developed the back end used by the destination experts to build customized travel experiences with API linked to hotels, attractions, experiences, and car rental companies.
  • Developed front-end tools using Angular for managing travel reservations.
  • Worked on DevOps infrastructure-related tasks to automate testing and deployment.
  • Implemented advanced Google Tag Manager for advanced goal conversion tracking, even offline. Created Google analytics complex funnels.
Technologies: CakePHP, WordPress, JavaScript

Back-End Developer

2014 - 2016
baseklas™ (Philadelphia, PA, US)
  • baseklas™ is a full-service tech boutique that offers managed web technology services and builds beautiful websites and usable and functional custom applications.
  • Implemented a standardized development workflow for the team using Git and automated deployments.
Technologies: JavaScript, CakePHP, PHP

Full-Stack Web Developer

2011 - 2014
CoreLiquid Switzerland (Lausanne, Switzerland)
  • Created a framework for building responsive, single page web applications that used CakePHP as a back-end.
Technologies: Socket.IO, JavaScript, HTML5, Node.js, PHP

Niche Social Network

A project built back in 2012 that wanted to protect the user's privacy in the cyber world.

Nice looking virtual Viennese masks are available to protect the avatar picture.

The user profile is built almost entirely using easy-to-understand icons. In this way the profile looks far more appealing.

For making the user interface more responsive, I created a JavaScript framework closely integrated with CakePHP.

MagicHost

https://www.magichost.ro/
An automating small personal startup for hosting for eCommerce sellers.

An interesting update that I added was to recently include free automated Let's Encrypt SSL certificates with every domain created.

Ecommy

A technical blog and a shop for selling my popular PrestaShop plugin (used by over 500 shops).

Dictio

https://www.dictio.ro
A very popular dictionary and machine translation personal website built back in 2007.

MrCashback

A personal startup business that is a fully automatic cashback website built using a CakePHP framework and Bash scripting.

Real-Time Well Site Data

A website that improves drilling economics by specializing in the secure organization and delivery of all static and real-time well site data.

Technologies used: SVG, PHP, Perl, Bash scripting, and GIS.

Premium Dental Editing

This project was built when I was working at baseklas™. It offers dental scientists a platform to improve their manuscripts.

Technologies used: CakePHP and HTML5.

Custom CakePHP CMS

Modular custom CMS built on top of cakephp.

It has plugins for galleries, sliders, custom forms, page templates, events, news, document manager and different custom ones for specific needs.

System is in use by tens of clients from restaurants to various institutions.

Online System to Manage Legal Cases

Built on top of a CakePHP framework, the project aims to provide an easy to use interface in order for legal advisers from all over the country to have a centralized way to collaborate and manage their legal cases.

The killer feature is a way to create teams that can cover certain counties depending on the number of open cases.

In the end, the whole country is evenly covered so the institution is more efficient and responsive (there is also a central dashboard with graphical representations of team distribution and number of open cases).
2014 - 2014

Certificate of Completion Degree in Online Marketing

Online Marketing Academy via ASE University - Bucharest, Romania

2013 - 2013

Certificate of Completion Degree in Microsoft SharePoint, Application Development

Microsoft Course 10175A - Bucharest, Romania

2007 - 2007

Oracle Database Administrator Certification Degree in Database Administration for Oracle 10g

Oracle University - Bucharest, Romania

2002 - 2007

Master's Degree in Computer Engineering

IT Technical University - Bucharest, Romania

Libraries/APIs

jQuery, Socket.IO, React, Node.js, OpenLayers

Tools

PrestaShop, Jira, Bitbucket, Webpack, GIS, JetBrains, SourceTree, Assembla, Git

Languages

PHP, JavaScript, HTML5, C#.NET

Frameworks

CakePHP, CodeIgniter, Angular, Laravel, Nova, Ionic, Electron

Paradigms

Agile Software Development

Platforms

Linux, NetBeans, OpenStack, Magento, WordPress, ArcGIS Server, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)

Storage

MySQL, Memcached, PostgreSQL

Other

Payment APIs, eCommerce, Architecture, VMware ESXi

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