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Mihnea Simian :: Curriculum Vitae

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Mihnea Simian

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Summary

5 years Python backend, 2 years and counting AngularJs frontend.

Both perfectionist and practicalist. Big fond of unix/vim/git(cli)/ack. Mac user. Passionate photographer.

Experience

Front-End Engineer, I.N.G. Bank Romania

Sep 2015 - Present
  • Responsive AngularJs app, close to a hybrid application, used by digital native Romanian clients on various devices
  • In charge with front-end components development, some Jenkins, grunt and fortify, debugging on devices, integrating with Js-Native extensions, project build process, test harness setup for front-end testing, candidates scanning
  • Participated to the group's incubator, the project nearly made it to the final stage, learned about customer journey and building an early MVP

Software Engineer, Charge Ads

Jan 2014 - Jul 2015
  • Programmatic media trading platform
  • Web development, backend-frontend 80-20 % (Django, Tastypie, AngularJS)
  • Integration with various real time bidding adservers (appnexus, IPONWEB)
  • Shaped up a new team to work using continuous integration methodologies. Starting with 20 broken tests, then up to 100+ passing tests
  • Migrated data and remapped procedures for a robust architecture (merged databases ensuring foreign key consistency and data de-duplication)
  • My last task here: in-house design of native ads on top of existing architecture

Software Engineer, Eau de Web

Feb 2011 - Dec 2013
  • Backend web development (Python, Zope, Plone, Django, Flask)
  • IT Infrastructure for Eionet (various UNIX Services, LDAP, proprietary infrastructure solutions)
  • Oct 2012 - Feb 2013: in-house consultancy in Copenhagen for OSE3 (IT networking and public systems) department of the EEA
  • basic project management with team of 2 - 3 members and one product owner

Intern, Eau de Web

Jul 2010 - Sep 2010
  • Backend web development (Python, Zope, Naaya), deployment, quality assurance, software documenting, team member (code review, code documentation, code versioning), deployment procedures

Intern, DigitalWorld E-shops

Jul 2009 - Sep 2009
  • full stack development of tram.ro using a custom 1999 Romanian awarded PHP framework
  • A-B e-shops that use the same business logic (digitalworld.ro, spot.ro)

Intern, uberVU

Jul 2008 - Sep 2008
  • Backend Python developer, in charge with webspiders and API querying

Education

The Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Oct 2011 - Jul 2013
  • Master's Degree, Business Management
  • Thesis: Managing Sales of Internet Products (Bid Management)
  • Courses: Managerial Economics, Human Resources, Strategic Diagnostics, History of Economics. Sales Management, Portfolio management, Business Strategy

University Politehnica of Bucharest

Oct 2007 - Jul 2011
  • Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science
  • Thesis: Internationalization for Zope based portals (Naaya)
  • Courses: Electronics, Computer hardware, Hardware Programming, Advanced Mathematics, Numerical Methods, Low and High Level Software development, Algorithms, Programming Paradigms, Networking,

Skills

Web-developing

Own work

journeh.com, 2015

  • uses meanjs MVC stack from meanjs.org
  • Mongoose ORM and express for simple REST API
  • Async tasks with rabbitmq using amqp client from nodejs
  • backend mocha tests, mocking and stubbing with sinonjs and proxyquire, asserting using shouldjs
  • some lodash for functional programming approach
  • kriskowal/Q for interfacing to promises (nodejs)
  • some frontend controller testing using jasmine
  • secure deployment on Amazon EC2, configuration of S3 and Cloudfront

ikonom.ro, 2012

  • Romanian webapp analyzes electronic bank statements and adds semantics to expenses
  • co-founder, technical development and product management
  • Django backend, jQuery driven frontend

fotolitera.ro, 2006

  • custom PHP user-generated content platform - deviantart-like community for Romanians

Other side projects

Other info

  • fast learner, solving complex problems, analytical thinking
  • hobbies include photography, gym, reading
  • highly sociable, always got along well in various environments

References

References available upon request from the persons that managed my internships or from people I currently interact with: Miruna, Andrei, Cornel - Eau de Web managers or partners in personal projects; Franz - Project Manager at the European Environment Agency; Søren - IT Leader at the European Environment Agency; Vladimir, Dan and Dragos - uberVU co-founders