Tiberius Florea
Verified Expert in Engineering
Back-end Developer
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
Experience
- Web - 7 years
- Python - 6 years
- Back-end - 5 years
- Java - 5 years
- C++ - 5 years
- Databases - 3 years
- CSS - 2 years
- JavaScript - 2 years
Availability
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
- 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.
Software Engineer
- 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.
Back-end engineer
UberVU
- Wrote Python features and tests for social media marketing application.
- Gave feedback to coworkers through GitHub code reviews.
Software Engineering Intern
- 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.
Software Engineering Intern
- Created and improved new Facebook ad formats (video ads, ads with polls, etc).
- Analyzed Facebook ads data using Apache Hive.
Software Development Engineer in Test
Microsoft
- Wrote C# tools for testing Speech Recognition engines corresponding to various natural languages.
- Packaged and distributed newly created tools to other Microsoft employees.
Experience
Google Translate
https://translate.google.com/Google MyMaps
Expense Tracker
IOI Silver Medal
http://stats.ioinformatics.org/results/2006Education
Bachelor of Arts Degree (Magna Cum Laude) in Computer Science
Brown University - Providence, RI, USA
Skills
Libraries/APIs
jQuery, Backbone.js, Node.js
Tools
Perforce, Git, Atom, Vim Text Editor, GitHub, Visual Studio
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
Storage
Databases, Apache Hive, MongoDB, NoSQL
Frameworks
Django
Other
Back-end, Data Structures, Algorithms, HTTP, Authorization, User Authentication, Software Project Management, User Interface (UI), Templates
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