Raul Larion
Verified Expert in Engineering
Software Developer
Bucharest, Romania
Toptal member since July 26, 2021
Raul is a software developer with 13 years of experience building eCommerce solutions, apps, digital platforms, and full-scale optimization processes for various companies, including those with a major presence in the Romanian electronics market (like the partner importer for LG Electronics) and a crowdfunding startup. Raul specializes in PHP (it's his comfort zone), frequently using Magento, but he never passes up an opportunity to code with Python or ES6.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Magento 1, Symfony, PHP, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed and deployed was a computer-vision application for a beach venue to analyze customer inflow in context with the sales data.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer
Marketplace
- Led a full-scale optimization process for back-end services to achieve lower response times and higher stability.
- Involved in the migration process to the new cloud infrastructure with CI/CD capabilities, auto-scalability, and failover of core organization's core services.
- Designed and developed a centralized import data processor with data channel abstractization at the core with tens of millions of mutations processed so far across multiple different active channels.
- Contributed to the development of new logistics and fulfilment processes for the company's self-operated fleet and for third-party partners.
- Researched actively and proposed new and more performant technologies.
- Helped with the selection and interviewing necessary to recruit new software engineering talents.
Senior Software Engineer
Self-employed
- Made a web-based computer-assisted translation (CAT) app with custom project workflows capabilities, a WebDAV protocol, project ACL built in, translation memories normalized in Elasticsearch indexes, and Damerau-Levenshtein string distance algorithm.
- Developed a crawler "hive" made of micro-crawlers, coordinated by "queens" through message brokers and with anti-bot-mitigation features.
- Contributed to the development process of multiple Magento 1 stores with customers from various geographical locations and activities in industries ranging from firearms to climbing accessories.
PHP Developer
Kinecto | Innobyte
- Contributed to the development process of the first eCommerce platform owned by Altex, a Romanian electronics retailer with tens of physical locations.
- Developed a Magento 1-based eCommerce store for Internity, a Romanian GSM shop present in all Romanian major cities.
- Helped with the development of digital platforms as part of nationwide advertising campaigns for companies like Avon, Givenchy, Nestle, and LG.
- Built the eCommerce platform for the main Romanian importer of LG Electronics using Magento 1.
- Aided in the development of the online presence of a local investment bank.
Experience
CAT App
To maximize translator productivity, the app has various integrated features:
• Automated extraction of translatable content and XLIFF conversion from a wide range of file types, including but not limited to DOCX, XLSX, PPTX, IDML, and so on;
• Translation memories which enable translators to reuse their past work;
• Term bases which are industry-specific term dictionaries with "while-typing" suggestions;
• Machine translation which helps with the automated translation of source documents;
• Segmentation rule customizations;
• Segment aligners;
• Webdisks through the WebDAV protocol to allow quick access to project documents.
HomePlans
http://www.homeplans.comWhen I was involved in the development process, the platform was powered by Magento Enterprise with heavy customizations to the caching and content engines.
Structural Funds
http://www.fonduri-structurale.roAltex
I was involved in the development process of the eCommerce shop built on Magento 1. As a developer, I also worked on ERP integration and automated marketing tools.
Consolid8
http://www.consolid8.roEducation
Bachelor of Science Degree in Economic Informatics, and Cybernetics
Bucharest University of Economic Studies - Bucharest, Romania
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, React.js, Protobuf
Tools
Systemd, Varnish, RabbitMQ
Languages
PHP, CSS, ECMAScript 6, ES5, TypeScript, PHP, Python
Frameworks
Symfony, CodeIgniter, Symfony 4
Platforms
Magento, Magento, Linux, AWS, Docker, Magento
Storage
Redis Cache, MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis
Other
Software Engineering, WebSockets, Okapi, WebDAV
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