Nicolae Virgil CRISTEA

Director of Engineering at Bobnet
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Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania, RO
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  • English Professional working proficiency
  • Italian Professional working proficiency
  • French Limited working proficiency
  • Romanian Native or bilingual proficiency

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Bogdan Bujor

Nicolae performs beautifully in expecting and exceeding business requirements. Walking Wikipedia, I highly recommend and fully trust Nicolae in systems architecture, CTO-ing, risk management, programming, business planning and advising related work, due to his experience, work ethic and perseverence.

Calin Cristescu

Nicu is a very good professional who takes his job seriously with the desire to take the projects, the team and the business to the next level. He is a true leader, but also a coach having both great programming skills and trainer skills. He is the one who introduced me and my colleagues to the great experience of working with Symfony. Very dedicated to Clean Code and clean flow as well, he always thinks to the future of the project, so no metter who will come or who will leave the project the flow will be very easy to use and understand and the code will always be easy to read. Taken these into consideration, I really think Nicu is very valuable to any company in the world.

Constantin Tucu

Always taken his role seriously and is passionate about his results. Has a remarkable talent in seeking out opportunities to expand the business. He is a natural leader and fights hard for his beliefs. Consciously proactive at getting full involvement of all other team members to derive the best results possible.

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Credentials

  • Effectively Create Goals and Set Priorities
    Udemy
    Nov, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • SOLID Software Architecture: Complete Guide with Coding Examples
    Udemy
    Nov, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Neuroplasticity: How To Rewire Your Brain
    Udemy
    Oct, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Leading Effective One-on-One Meetings: Practical Skills
    Udemy
    Jun, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Email Ninja - Take Back Control of Your Email Inbox
    Udemy
    Apr, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Essentials : Learn The 5 NLP Core Principles of Success
    Udemy
    Apr, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Symfony Test
    Brainmeasures
    Jan, 2017
    - Nov, 2024
  • Bazele managementului - Cum sa aveti grija de subordonatii dumneavoastra directi
    Online Business School
    Oct, 2014
    - Nov, 2024
  • Time management
    Online Business School
    Sep, 2013
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Bobnet
    • Romania
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Director of Engineering
      • Jul 2023 - Present

      ┌ Bobnet Group ─ Tech Fusion Division ↳ NCH Capital┌ 📈─Managerial Achievements, Goal & Responsibilities ────────────────────• established Tech Division Strategy based on business vision and goals;• coordinating with team leads or engineer manager to achieve 4 main objectives trough tech strategy;• managing 4 Teams each 7 members with unique skills and responsibilities;• software department yearly budget;• hiring technical managers and lead team members;• contribute to evaluation of team skills;• establish team members roles and responsibilities;• designing, innovating and delivering of software products and solutions;└────────────────────────────────────── Show less

    • Engineering Manager
      • Oct 2019 - Jun 2023

      ┌ Bobnet Group a venture startup financed by↳ NCH Capital┌ 📈─Managerial Achievements ──────────────────────────• established the Technical Development Department needs and strategy based on business objectives;• hiring technical team members;• evaluation of team skills;• architecture between microservices and UI apps (mobile and web) ;• architecture of the new business features cross apps;• consolidate technological stack and Team;• internal procedures and standards;• product requirements mostly for Bob Quest and complementary to the other products;• the BI sub-division strategy and responsibilities;• Software Development Department budget└─────────────────────────────────────────┌🛠️─ Technical Achievements ───────────────────────────• CI/CD internal tools development based on GoLang• network monitoring tool based on GoLang• research over protocol buffer and gRPC on Go• implementation of protocol buffer with gRPC in Go microservices both server to server and client to server, unary and streaming;• podman compose module based on Go;• containerized applications trough docker and podman;• own image registry;• http2 trough nginx and envoy;• ELK, VPN, DNS, Atomic and coreOS servers configuration and maintenance for staging and prod environments with rpm-ostree;• ELK7 Cluster and K3S Cluster;• Google Cloud improved deploy mechanism with failover mechanisms;└───────────────────────────────────────── Show less

    • Solutions Architect
      • Oct 2018 - Sep 2019

      ┌ 📈─ Innovative R&D Project BOB Concierge a venture startup financed by↳ NCH CapitalI've delivered technological development, research and innovation through cutting edge technology! ➟ Achieved:· 1 powerful RESTfull APIs with Symfony 4· 2 innovative and powerful solutions on GoLang;· dockerized and containerized app services trough docker compose with persistent data storage;· Go GoLang companion to CI and CD atomic project infrastructure;· prod ready on Google Cloud PLatform with Kubernetes Engine;· 2 SPA with React.js; · 1 mobile trough React Native;· HTTP2 with gRPC framework;➟ Tech Stack:GoLang, Symfony 4, ReactJS, ELK, based on KISS, Clean code, SOLID principle, SPA Architecture with powerful dockerized and containerized RESTfull API to deliver The World's Most Innovative Ideas! Show less

  • eMAG
    • Romania
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Technical Team Lead
      • Aug 2017 - Oct 2018

      ┌ Managed and Technical lead Orders Management 3 Development Team as part of Software Development Department - Operations Platform (SDOPS). ↳ developed new functionality on Transfers Node microservice ↳ built main Delivery MS used during Black Friday ↳ maintain Orders History microservice ↳ focused to deliver Team synergy cross departments in an collaborative environment. ┌ 📈─ Managerial achievements: · clarify the standards and procedures at team level: clean code, coding standards, normalize versioned files, unit testing, automate functional regression tests, release procedure; · scalability impact; · defined Team OKRs and individual OKR aligned to Department strategy and vision; · 1:1 bi-weekly; ➟ Technical achievements: · define CI + CD trough Jenkins pipeline and automate smoke tests and regression; · configure Continuous Code Quality analyzes in order to have the impact of each, feature, sprint or Q before merging the code; · optimization of client's orders; · established the strategy to scale for one of the main microservice; · configured boards to monitor error logs, app requests and response time by client, verb and each API endpoint to understand needs and app behavior; · configured monitoring tools; Technological stack: Symfony 3, php7, AMPQ, memory cache, ELK 6, elasticsearch, OpenStack, git, jenkins, Code Quality analyzers, logging and monitoring tools; Show less

  • 123FormBuilder
    • Romania
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Principal Software Development Engineer
      • Apr 2017 - Jul 2017

      Achievements: SSO SAML v2: • The SAML v2 protocol implementation having both SSO options in Service Provider (SP) initiated mode and Identity Provider (IdP) initiated; • For Microsoft Azure AD IdP for both situations for single tenant and multi tenanted application; • For any IdP with configurations from local config file and configuration through submitting the metadata; • Configurable and ready to use on multiple code instances (Service Instances) with multiple platforms set o the same instance (ex: wix, weebly, www) • Easy to add any new Identity Provider and easy to extend the configuration methods (local file and form submission) • Auto provision on SSO request for new users; • Auto require SSO Session with auto login (set for hilti single only) set through the .env configuration ready to use for any service instance; • Easy extendable and configurable; • User friendly url SEO ready; entire SSO SAML protocol was developed on the friendly URL without requesting to hardcode each path in .htaccess for idP; • generic implementation for the seo and user friendly URI, so the same way can be used for any functionality; • CSV prefill application extended in order to allow accessing the attributes (assertions) sent through SSO SAML v2; Api v2 composer autoloader: • Optimised for production by using an Authoritative class map generated based on PSR-0 and PSR-4 autoloading that will decrease the IO on file reading and boost the performance; Dev env: • availability to start multiple local vagrant machines and configure them without affecting everyone • line endings normalisation for critical scripts to LF Deploy procedure: • boost of at least 15s to each propagation (deploy) after optimising it Event Listeners: • ability to create and subscribe event listeners classes on the main Kernel events (REQUEST, EXCEPTION, VIEW, CONTROLLER, RESPONSE, TERMINATE, FINISH_REQUEST) to add flexibility on more complex functionalities when class inheritance is no longer the solution Show less

  • YOURSHORE
    • Romania
    • Information Technology & Services
    • Staff Software Developer
      • Mar 2017 - Apr 2017

      Yourshore alliance Pentalog assists IT services companies and web agencies with the setting up of their offshore or nearshore unit. ➟ Main responsibility - provide technical solutions in order to optimize the web app based on Laravel 5.3 stack ➟ Main achievement - optimized one of the most lazy and used page of the app reducing the response time from over 8s to under 1s ➟ New Skills: Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans Yourshore alliance Pentalog assists IT services companies and web agencies with the setting up of their offshore or nearshore unit. ➟ Main responsibility - provide technical solutions in order to optimize the web app based on Laravel 5.3 stack ➟ Main achievement - optimized one of the most lazy and used page of the app reducing the response time from over 8s to under 1s ➟ New Skills: Laravel - The PHP Framework For Web Artisans

  • SugarCRM
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Staff Software Engineer
      • Aug 2015 - Feb 2017

      ┌ 📈─ As part of Professional Services Team I've delivered high quality custom implementations for ↳ JPMorgan Chase & Co. NY, ↳ Credit Suisse Switzerland ↳ SugarCRM Core Team Delivering for Fortune 100 clients (USA global investment banks), the SugarCRM integrations and functionalities as part of Professional Services Team. ➟ Responsibilities: Deliver CRM customization for leading global companies; Improve and automate Development process; Innovate and research; 💡 Innovation and research result additional achievements: · vagrant-on: vagrant up extension · sugarBash: daily bash helper · priority queue module · module logger · new sim environments and container aware ready · ccdi lib · smigup · hooks-installer ➟ Technologies: · PHP OOP · symfony2 PHP components · phpunit testing · xdebug · xhprof · design patterns · SOLID principles · KISS · code sniffers · oracle12c · MySQL · Elasticsearch · vagrant up · docker · Jeenkins · backbone.js · in-house tools and frameworks on ruby and python Show less

  • IGT PlayDigital
    • United Kingdom
    • Gambling Facilities and Casinos
    • 100 - 200 Employee
    • Software Engineering Manager
      • Jul 2014 - Jul 2015

      Technical Management and Team Lead responsibilities on Software Development Main responsibilities and achievements: - in the first half of the year managed 4 important projects ( 9 Developers ) and then the entire PHP Department; - advisor of CEO and involved on purchase Atlantis Git Essential (Jira, Jira Agile, Stash, Bamboo) and implement the workflow on Corporate level (over 100 engineers); - successfully coached the entire department (19 Developers) on Git Flow and trained 2 Git Masters to delegate the responsibility to supervise the process; - successfully trained 1 Project Team on Symfony2 PHP Framework with composer and vagrant up; - implemented on the most important project, the Continuous Integration and Delivery trough Bamboo; - implemented Agile SCRUM on one project and established work flow; - introduced the Code Review process on software development; - introduced the test automation (unit and functional) on one major project; - moved 2 projects on Vagrant in order to have local automated development environment; - interviewed candidates (Back and Front-end Developers) for available positions for the PHP Department and contributed to final decisions to hire; - One on one meetings with PHP Department Team and weekly with the CEO; - Initiator of improving the software development process moving on RESTfull API architecture with dedicated Front and Back-end Developers and Single Page Application; - Team evaluation process; Show less

  • Challenger Solutions
    • Timisoara
    • Technical Lead & Sr. Symfony2 Engineer
      • Dec 2012 - May 2014

      Technical Lead in an innovating StartUp - leading a small team of 8 engineers - implementing B2C media streaming project; - automate dev env on Vagrant extending it by VagrantON; Technical achievements: - web socketing; - multiple symfony firewalls; - working with multiple entity managers; - adopting an event-driven architecture; Symfony 2.2 PHP Framework; Git based on Git Flow and Git Rebase; Debian6 and CentOS6 sys admin with and without Vagrant; SEO web app architecture for Google; Show less

  • [e-spres-oh]
    • Romania
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Symfony2 PHP Engineer & Git Master
      • Apr 2012 - Dec 2012

      Company: We are a romanian software company working exclusively for Fortune 500 clients from the US, with offices all over the world. Achievements: Symfony 2.0 PHP Framework; (with doctrine2, doctrine migrations & fixtures, MySQL) Git Master based on Git Flow and Git Rebase strategy; SCORM; RESTfull API; Adaptive functionality delivery; Company: We are a romanian software company working exclusively for Fortune 500 clients from the US, with offices all over the world. Achievements: Symfony 2.0 PHP Framework; (with doctrine2, doctrine migrations & fixtures, MySQL) Git Master based on Git Flow and Git Rebase strategy; SCORM; RESTfull API; Adaptive functionality delivery;

  • Enkas
    • Romania
    • IT System Custom Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Founder
      • Sep 2006 - Aug 2012

      📌 2006 - 2012: B2C Web apps developed and managed: ACS, Afilieri.com, AffariPropri, Mandilo, Ligelo, Bovecho, TelefoaneMobileNoi, AmazingTalent, 2% PentruVoi; Little Survey, Concret 2007; Senior Web Developer: - in: Symfony 2, CakePHP, PHP/MySQL, jQuery, JavaScript, Ajax, CSS, HTML, Wordpress; - payment gateways/processors: MoneyBookers, PayPal, e-gold; Subversions: - SVN, Git on GitHub; Project manager: - used: Redmine, Basecamp, Jira, web2Project, dotProject; Server administrator: - on: Ubuntu, Debian 6 and CentOS6; - install and config: Apache MPM prefork with NGINX and Awstats, MySQL, PostgreSQL, redmine, phpMyAdmin, phpPgAdmin, SVN, Git; Install, configure and using: Drupal, Magento, dotProject, SVN, GIT, Trac; 📌 2004 - 2006: Journey Full Development of Affiliate Network System: www.afilieri.com SEO on google.ro for www.afilieri.com on keywords: marketing afiliat , afiliere, afiliere online, retea de afiliere, afilieri; Show less

  • Eudonet Netherlands
    • Netherlands
    • Software Development
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Symfony PHP Web Developer
      • Apr 2011 - Apr 2012

      Technological stack: - Symfony 1.4 PHP Framework, PostgreSQL, Doctrine ORM - jQuery, EtherPad, BeaconPush, CentOS 6 Technological stack: - Symfony 1.4 PHP Framework, PostgreSQL, Doctrine ORM - jQuery, EtherPad, BeaconPush, CentOS 6

  • Bouwmeester Groep
    • Timis County, Romania
    • PHP Web Developer
      • Jul 2008 - Mar 2011

      BG Bricks as part of the Bouwmeester Groep Achievements: Web Developer using PHP, MySQL, CSS, javaScript, AJAX, jQuery Facebook API, Social Networks API (LinkeIn, Facebook, Last.fm, Reddit, MySpace, ...) e-commerce payment gateways: PayPal Sandbox, Ogone BG Bricks as part of the Bouwmeester Groep Achievements: Web Developer using PHP, MySQL, CSS, javaScript, AJAX, jQuery Facebook API, Social Networks API (LinkeIn, Facebook, Last.fm, Reddit, MySpace, ...) e-commerce payment gateways: PayPal Sandbox, Ogone

  • epoint.digital
    • Romania
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Web Programmer
      • Feb 2008 - Apr 2008

      Learned CakePHP and treeGrid used for ProIN Drupal was also presented to me Learned CakePHP and treeGrid used for ProIN Drupal was also presented to me

  • AEGEE / European Students' Forum
    • Belgium
    • Non-profit Organizations
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • IT Manager
      • Nov 2004 - Nov 2006

      Web applications, project coordination Web applications, project coordination

Education

  • Politehnica University of Timisoara
    2011, Automation and Computer Science
    2004 - 2011
  • Colegiul National "Lucian Blaga"
    High School Diploma, Mathematics and Computer Science
    2000 - 2004

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