Costin Soare

Passionate, dynamic and detail-oriented specialist, with a track record of achieving breakthrough efficiency and driving client satisfaction. Having more than 10 years experience with software engineering, web development, e-commerce and information security, I can easily join new teams and projects, bringing valuable skills in all stages of software development.

https://linkedin.com/in/costinsoare

https://github.com/soarecostin

Avignon, FR

Work Experience

Techne Health

Full-Stack Web Developer (Remote)

Apr 2018 - Present
  • Co-ordinated, designed and developed a SaaS platform for medical organizations to offer Second Opinions
  • Architected the platform as a Hybrid-SaaS, deployable on client premises or in cloud
  • Implemented EHR security and privacy standards: file encryption at rest, advanced ACL, two-factor auth
  • Engineered the platform to support multiple languages, currencies and payment gateways
  • Developed a themeable Saas solution customized for >10 clients to generate unique brand-matching styles
  • Gained exposure to advanced Laravel/PHP features: Multiple auth guards, Policies, Passport, Queues, chunk uploads
  • Leveraged knowledge in Laravel, Vue, Sass, Unit and integration testing, Package development, AWS

Hot Mustard Media

Full-Stack Web Developer (Remote)

Feb 2014 - Mar 2018
  • Joined a small team of 4 devs and collaborated in an Agile Kanban methodology to build an eCommerce platform, integrated with 2 ERPs and managed over 10 websites with increased sales and traffic year over year
  • Participated in daily meetings with the team and with clients, recommended, planned and presented new features
  • Solved traffic spikes challenges and increased page loads by up to 50% by using website optimization techniques
  • Revamped product pages and refined CMS features to help the marketing efforts
  • Transformed Johnston Press news sites by building 2 Wordpress themes, over 5 plugins & progressive web apps
  • Leveraged knowledge in PHP, MySQL, Wordpress, JavaScript/ES6, jQuery, CSS/Sass, Service Workers, ITCSS

Square Games

Software Engineer

Mar 2010 – Jan 2014
  • Built 5 multiplayer social network games published on Facebook as SPAs (PHP, JavaScript, Facebook Graph API)

Software Projects

Open Source Package Development

Peer-Reviewed Journal Management System

  • Engineered a back-end system for Discoveries Journals to facilitate the management of peer-reviewed articles
  • Automated the export of articles in NISO JATS (XML) for upload on databases like MEDLINE and trained staff members to use the new system to increase efficiency
  • Leveraged knowledge in PHP, Symfony components, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Texture (by Substance.io)

Education & Certifications

Economic Cybernetics, Statistics & Computer Science - ASE Bucharest, RO

  • MS: IT&C Security and Cybersecurity, Sep 2009 – Jun 2011
  • BS: Computer Science, Sep 2006 - Jun 2009
  • Programming Coursework: Data Structures, Operating Systems, OOP in Java, C++ and C#, Algorithms, DBMS

Certifications

Skills

  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Laravel
  • Symfony
  • PHPUnit
  • Unit testing
  • TDD
  • Redis
  • JavaScript
  • ES6
  • Vue.js
  • jQuery
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Sass
  • Bootstrap
  • TailwindCSS
  • Service Workers
  • Linux
  • Apache
  • NginX
  • Composer
  • Design Patterns
  • MVC
  • Git