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LUCIAN

COVALIU

SOFTWARE ENGINEER

Iasi, Romania / Remote

github.com/CovaliuLucian

+40 751915383

lucian@covaliu.dev

SUMMARY

EXPERIENCE

As a passionate software engineering enthusiast, I am deeply committed to

continuous learning and thrive on challenges. With a meticulous and adaptable

approach, I focus on every detail to develop innovative and robust solutions

for intricate problems. I am eager to make a meaningful impact and contribute

significantly to transformative projects.

SHORELINE

Software Engineer

US west coast startup, the product is an automation and remediation

platform for large fleets of machines

Worked in a very small team (4 people at most in my time zone, a few more

in USA), self-organized and most of the time self-managed, delivered

features and projects from concept to production

Most of my work revolved around our custom database service. Initially it

was written in Golang, which I maintained. With help from two interns, we

rewrote it in Rust for considerable performance gains - on average 30%

less CPU and memory usage across various use cases.

After the mentioned rewrite I was left to maintain and improve it by adding

features, optimization and building other services on top of it, services

such as a SQL migration framework and a task scheduler.

Designed and implemented services for auditing and metering the usage of

our system

Worked on many internal debug tools and scripts (Rust, python, bash)

Trained a junior on our application and Rust codebase which then helped

implement services designed by me

Trained multiple interns and guided them to completing a project which we

then used as part of our application or as a debug tool

Because of the small team, I had to understand and use DevOps concepts

and tools such as kubernetes, Docker, Github CI

Technical Skills and Tools: Rust, tokio-rs, gRPC, Golang, Python, GIT,

Github CI, Docker, SQL, Software system design

08/2021 - 07/2023

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ENDAVA

Software Developer

The client is one of the biggest companies that is focusing on general

insurance for United Kingdom and Canada. This was an extension to the

already developed system in order to integrate with third party systems

and open the client to new markets.

The team I was part of worked at the third party integrations that provide

enrichment for the data present in the system.

The biggest challenge was re-thinking and refactoring some existing

plugins that deal with third parties as those reached a point where

extending the current logic was too difficult.

Another challenge was initially understanding the existing functionalities as

there was very little documentation. While I worked at a small part of the

system, it required a solid grasp of the whole application because most of

the data in the system was passing through the plugins I developed.

Technical Skills and Tools: C#, WCF, GIT, ElasticSearch, NServiceBus,

Microservices, CQRS.

09/2019 - 08/2021

ENDAVA

Software Developer

The project was a web-based employee management system,

implemented from scratch.

The team I was part of worked at the user management functionality,

mainly the managing of user data and integration with third parties that

provide or enrich user data.

Interacted with the business analyst team to understand the system

requirements.

Technical Skills and Tools: C#, ASP WEB API, Azure Cosmos, Azure Cloud

Services, TFS, Microservices, NServiceBus

07/2018 - 12/2018

ENDAVA

Internship

Learning Dotnet basics

Learning basic programming principles

Learning basic agile methodology

07/2017-09/2017

EDUCATION

Faculty of Computer Science, University „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” Iasi

Bachelor's degree

2016 - 2019

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SKILLS

Rust

C# and Dotnet

Golang

Python

GIT and version control in general

Github CI

Docker

Microservices

Software system design

Cloud services (AWS, some Azure and GCP)

Good communication skills

Able to work in a team

Problem solving skills

Analytical thinking

Willingness to learn

PERSONAL PROJECTS

The first "big" personal project I ever worked on was a C implementation

of the classic Minesweeper game. I worked on this in 2016, my first year of

university.

The original implementation was amateurish and hard to understand as I

had no experience designing an application. My main goal was to design

and implement a similar game, in C# this time, to see how far I've come.

This time I wanted it to be easier to understand and extend.

03/2021 - 04/2021

Minesweeper V2

In November 2019 I wanted to try game development, this is a trial

project that I managed to finish: an implementation of the classic Pong

game in the Monogame framework.

The goal of this project was to understand how a low-level game

development framework works and how to use a low-level physics engine

11/2019

Pong Monogame

HOBBIES

Cooking

Reading

Gaming

LANGUAGES

Romanian

Native Proficiency

English

Full Professional Proficency