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Broad vs. Narrow Skillsets: Software Engineering Skills Demystified
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Tiberius is available for hire
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Back-end Developer
Location
New York, NY, United States
Toptal Member Since
August 30, 2017
Tiberius is a Software Engineer at Plaid. He's also worked for Google (2013-2017) and interned at Facebook and Microsoft. He majored in Computer Science at Brown University.
Portfolio
Google
Templates, User Interface (UI), C++, Python, JavaScript
Google
Java, C++, Django, Python
UberVU
Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitHub, Python
Experience
Availability
Part-time
Preferred Environment
Git, Vim Text Editor, Atom, OS X
The most amazing...
...product I've worked on is translate.google.com, which reached hundreds of millions of users every month.
Work Experience
Software Engineer
2016 - 2017
- Led development of the Google Translate web app (translate.google.com - desktop and mobile).
- Designed, implemented, tested and launched new user-visible features in C++ and Java.
- Improved app reliability and performance: fewer crashes, faster load times.
- Increased code health and simplified app architecture.
- Mentored junior members of the team through design and code reviews.
Technologies: Templates, User Interface (UI), C++, Python, JavaScript
Software Engineer
2013 - 2015
- Used C++ and Python to serve promotional content on high-traffic properties like the Google homepage.
- Created Python/Django tools that enabled marketing specialists to create and target promo campaigns.
- Used Java and C++ to help migrate Google's web server for Search to a better templating system.
- Revamped the C++ authentication and authorization system of MyMaps and other Geo products.
- Used Java and Flume to run large offline processing jobs on Geo ACLs and other data.
Technologies: Java, C++, Django, Python
Back-end engineer
2012 - 2013
UberVU
- Wrote Python features and tests for social media marketing application.
- Gave feedback to coworkers through GitHub code reviews.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), GitHub, Python
Software Engineering Intern
2011 - 2011
- Added and improved various Site Integrity (security) features in C++ and PHP.
- Wrote framework for detecting spikes of unusual activity on Facebook in C++.
- Improved Facebook's Captcha server in C++.
- Used proprietary Ruby framework to write integration tests.
Technologies: Ruby, PHP, C++
Software Engineering Intern
2010 - 2010
- Created and improved new Facebook ad formats (video ads, ads with polls, etc).
- Analyzed Facebook ads data using Apache Hive.
Technologies: Apache Hive, PHP
Software Development Engineer in Test
2007 - 2007
Microsoft
- Wrote C# tools for testing Speech Recognition engines corresponding to various natural languages.
- Packaged and distributed newly created tools to other Microsoft employees.
Technologies: Visual Studio, C#
Experience
Google Translate
https://translate.google.com/I was responsible for serving infrastructure and client code for the web apps, as opposed to Translate in Search, Translate in Chrome, or the iOS/Android native apps. I designed, implemented, tested, and launched new features in addition to fixing product and deployment issues as they arose.
Google MyMaps
I worked on the C++ backend used by Google MyMaps and other Geo products like the now-deprecated Google Maps Engine. My main project was revamping the authorization and authentication architecture without any disruption to users.
Expense Tracker
Expense tracking application using BackboneJS, NodeJS, Express, and MongoDB. The code can't be shared publicly, but is available upon request.
IOI Silver Medal
http://stats.ioinformatics.org/results/2006I won Silver Medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics, representing Romania. I was also awarded the Silver at the Central European Olympiad and Gold at the Balkan Olympiad.
Skillset
Languages
Clojure, HTML, Python, JavaScript, Java, C++, CSS, SQL, Ruby, C#, Go, PHP
Paradigms
Testing, Concurrent Programming, MapReduce
Platforms
Web, OS X, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Linux
Other
Back-end, Data Structures, Algorithms, HTTP, Authorization, User Authentication, Software Project Management, User Interface (UI), Templates
Tools
Perforce, Git, Atom, Vim Text Editor, GitHub, Visual Studio
Storage
Databases, Apache Hive, MongoDB, NoSQL
Frameworks
Django
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Backbone.js, Node.js
Education
2008 - 2012
Bachelor of Arts Degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Computer Science
Brown University - Providence, RI, USA
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