Radu Nitescu, Developer in Bucharest, Romania
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Radu Nitescu

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Software Developer

Bucharest, Romania

Toptal member since December 3, 2021

Expertise
AlgorithmsJavaScriptiOSSwiftPythonJavaSQLCSSSpringReact.jsSpring BootAgile DevelopmentMicroservices DevelopmentPostgreSQL
Bio

Radu is a software developer with three years of experience specializing in iOS and React Native mobile development and working with React and back-end Java development. He has built robust and scalable applications and has a big passion for the product side. Radu enjoys working with startup and enterprise clients and excels at creating software solutions that are functional and easy to use.

Portfolio

Take Off Labs
Swift, Swift 5, React Native, Alamofire, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Android, iOS...
Trading Central
Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3)...
Okapi Studio
Swift, iOS, React Native, Kotlin, Figma, Mobile App Development...

Experience

  • Algorithms - 3 years
  • JavaScript - 3 years
  • Java - 3 years
  • React - 2 years
  • React Native - 2 years
  • iOS - 2 years
  • Spring - 2 years
  • Swift 5 - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

MacOS, Xcode, IntelliJ IDEA, Slack, GitHub, GitLab, YouTrack, Jira

The most amazing...

...software I've developed was an AR-based application capable of identifying historical buildings and landmarks.

Work Experience

iOS Developer

2021 - PRESENT
Take Off Labs
  • Worked on the video insights service for the Golf Genius iOS app with speech recognition search capabilities.
  • Completed several mobile development tasks, including the location-based, anti-fraud validation system and bug fixing for the score verification system.
  • Developed the QR GGID authentication method for the Golf Genius and Golf Genius Officials apps.
Technologies: Swift, Swift 5, React Native, Alamofire, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Android, iOS, Mobile App Development, User Authentication, Fraud Prevention

Full-stack Java Developer

2021 - 2021
Trading Central
  • Assisted in developing the back-end infrastructure for TC Quantamental Rating, the proprietary financial instrument rating system developed by Trading Central.
  • Worked on several REST APIs for the TC widgets product, a suite of technical analysis widgets deployed as embeddable web components.
  • Built a Java Spring application capable of processing and standardizing news articles from multiple financial news providers. The processed articles were sent to the sentiment recognition service to provide more meaningful insights.
  • Refactored existing back-end code, improved code quality, and added unit tests.
Technologies: Java, Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Hibernate, Angular, Node.js, Spring Batch, REST APIs, Unit Testing, Widgets

Software Developer

2020 - 2021
Okapi Studio
  • Developed the React Native mobile app for one of Ireland's biggest financial news providers.
  • Integrated the Acuant SDK in several native iOS and Android apps, enabling identity verification and fraud prevention for identification documents.
  • Integrated a native audio player feature in a React Native podcast-like application with support for background playing, lock screen scrubbing, and more.
  • Created a WordPress GraphQL API plugin to allow users from the mobile app to see subscription status, payment due dates, and other payment-related information.
Technologies: Swift, iOS, React Native, Kotlin, Figma, Mobile App Development, Fraud Prevention, Android, WordPress, GraphQL, Plugins, APIs

Python Developer

2019 - 2020
Private Machines
  • Assisted in developing a configuration system for the virtual buckets to provide a unified interface across multiple cloud storage providers, including AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.
  • Tracked and fixed several bugs for the back-end infrastructure on Storage Fabric.
  • Helped convert the legacy codebase from Python 2.7 to Python 3.6.
  • Wrote unit and integration tests for the existing codebase and the new features.
Technologies: Python, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), Algorithms, Encryption, SQLite, Unit Testing, Integration Testing

Experience

Metrolens

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3tXNMbOFaQ
A SwiftUI-based app for visualizing a city's historic buildings and landmarks in an AR environment. The buildings and landmarks can be viewed on a map or in a list format. The data came through a GraphQL API written in Django and backed by a PostGIS database.

Skills

Libraries/APIs

React, Node.js, Alamofire, REST APIs

Tools

Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS), Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS), Xcode, IntelliJ IDEA, Slack, GitHub, GitLab, YouTrack, Jira, Figma

Languages

Swift 5, JavaScript, HTML, Swift, Python, Java, SQL, CSS, Embedded C, Kotlin, GraphQL

Frameworks

React Native, Spring, Spring Boot, Ruby on Rails (RoR), Hibernate, Angular, Spring Batch, SwiftUI, Combine, Django

Paradigms

Agile, Functional Programming, Microservices, RESTful Development, Test-driven Development (TDD), Unit Testing

Platforms

iOS, Android, MacOS, WordPress

Storage

PostgreSQL, Amazon S3 (AWS S3), SQLite, PostGIS

Other

Algorithms, Encryption, Spring Cloud, Mobile App Development, Fraud Prevention, User Authentication, Integration Testing, APIs, Widgets, Plugins

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