Ionut Arhire
Software Developer at Extia | Contractor
About
I'm a programmer passionate about computer science, math and the art of problem solving.
Work Experience
Software Developer
Client: Ubisoft.
Highlights
- Fullstack engineer for Ubisoft for close to half a year developing for two social media applications.
- Upgraded the front-end of one app from Angular 5 to Angular 12.
- Upgraded the back-end of the same app from .NET Framework 4.5 to .NET 6 (the latest version at that time).
- Saved costs by migrating 6 other apps from old servers to new ones using Octopus and IIS.
- Reworked background jobs for one of the apps to use Hangfire instead of Windows Services.
- Implemented dark mode for one of the applications.
- Replaced the image cropper functionality with an open source solution.
Software Developer
Worked on an European payments processing system using microservices.
Highlights
- Lead multiple epics from the design phase to the validation phase.
- Guarded the operational front as an on-call 24/7 engineer.
- Used multiple architectural patterns such as Event Streaming using Apache Kafka, Change Data Capture using Maxwell's Daemon, Event Sourcing and other types of technical patterns like Retry Policies and Circuit Breakers.
- Built and held presentations about Unit testing and Git to interns receiving very positive feedback for my mentoring skills.
Continental
Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania
June 2020 – January 2021
Software Engineer
Highlights
- Technical lead of an internal web app for managing the mentorship programs in the company.
- Rewrote the entire testing suite for an automotive application from scratch in python.
- Sped up the test suite by x8 using python with parallel processing.
.NET Developer
Highlights
- Main project was "Ask Roger!", a B2B, SAAS, cloud-based platform that offers a complete customer service solution.
- I also worked on two internal projects.
Centric IT Solutions Romania
Iaşi, Iaşi, Romania
July 2017 – September 2017
Full-Stack Developer Intern
Worked on an internal web application for managing an online library.
Highlights
- Was equally focused on every aspect of the application, from database to front-end.
Projects
- ProChess: A browser-based chess game with the backend written entirely in .NET Core and the front-end (Angular2+) modified from an open-source repository to fit my needs.
- Cellular Automata Wars: A browser-based multiplayer game centered around 2D cellular automata, written in C#, .NET Core, Typescript and Angular 5.
- Pathfinding BFS: Desktop application written in C++. Using the breadth-first-search (BFS) algorithm and SDL2 for graphics I managed to create an interactive, visual, pathfinding playground.
Education
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2015 2018
Facultatea de Informatica, Iasi
Bachelor
Computer Science
Skills
C#
TypeScript
JavaScript
HTML
CSS
.NET
ASP.NET Core
Algorithm Design
Object-Oriented Programming (OOP)
Microservices
Python
Docker
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Grafana
Angular 2+
Apache Kafka
Microsoft Azure
Amazon Web Services (AWS)