Gabriela Raducan

Senior PHP Developer Sept 2021 - Present

Powercloud (Germany)

The client, Germany's leading SaaS platform for mid and back-office processes in the energy industry, was aiming to extend outside of Germany but was unable to do so due to their products not being adjusted for new countries.

Decreased the new powercloud customer's total cost of ownership by up to 80% and reduced the cost to serve end-user customers from ~ €30 to an average of just €10 per end-user customer per year by extending the existing applications to cover energy processes and market communications for a new country.
Secured 100% success in helping the client achieve its target by ensuring that their software products crossed the German borders.

Skills: PHP (7 & 8), api-platform, Doctrine, Symfony, PhpUnit, Psalm, PHPStan, PHP Code Sniffer, PHP Mess Detector, MySQL, Docker, GIT, Bitbucket, Jira, Jenkins, Kibana, Ubuntu

Senior PHP Developer Mar 2021 - Aug 2021

medicplan.ro (Romania)

The client, a group of medical doctors, were aiming to help patients during the Covid19 pandemic, but were struggling to do so due to lacking a software product that would allow them to do so.

Achieved 100% client satisfaction by creating a set of PHP based web applications (microservices) from scratch that made online appointments and patient management possible.

Skills: PHP 7, Slim 3, Monolog logger, PostgreSQL, Memcached, Guzzle HTTP, Symfony console, Phinx, PHPUnit, Swagger specs, GIT, GitLab, Jira, Ubuntu

Senior PHP Developer Oct 2020 - Mar 2021

Jobshark (Romania)

The client, an outsourcing IT company with 200+ employees and a blooming projects portfolio, was struggling with filling up their open positions, and decided to resurrect their online recruitment platform that had been put on hold. However, the product was far from completion and the used technologies were outdated.

Helped increase productivity by 25% (team of 6) and number of fixed bugs by 30% by developing new modules and contributing to existing ones.

Skills: PHP 7, Slim 3, Twig, MongoDB, MongoLog, Zend 4, Symfony console, ElasticSearch, Tactician, Memcached, RabbitMQ, Vagrant, Docker, Ubuntu, Git, GitLab

Senior PHP Developer Apr 2020 - Sept 2020

Hellorider (Netherlands)

The client, a Netherlands-based company from the online bicycle market, was aiming to become the first bicycle retailer that would provide leasing services in the Netherlands, but was unable to achieve this goal due to lacking the necessary software product.

Secured 100% success in helping the client achieve its target, ensuring that it was the 1st company to provide these kinds of services by developing various PHP based microservices.
Employers could offer a suitable bicycle plan to their employees and employees could save up to 40% compared to buying a bicycle.

Skills: Docker, PHP 7, Slim 3, Monolog logger, PostgreSQL, Guzzle HTTP, Symfony console, Phinx, PHPUnit, Swagger specs, GIT, GitLab, Ubuntu, Jira

Senior PHP Developer Feb 2019 - Mar 2020

Fietsenwinkel (Netherlands)

The client, the largest online bicycle retailer in the Netherlands, was wasting a great deal of time, and therefore money, due to lacking automatization in business processes.

Achieved 100% business automatization by developing various PHP based web applications (microservices), such as a repairs app, an assembly instructions app and a warehouse management app.
Reduced time spent between receiving a bike in service and returning it to the owner by 35%, while increasing customer satisfaction by 65% and reducing delivery time by 20%, using the latest PHP related tools and frameworks.

Skills: Docker, PHP 7, Slim 3, Monolog logger, PostgreSQL, Guzzle HTTP, Proprietary queue task manager, Symfony console, Phinx, PHPUnit, Swagger specs, GIT, GitLab, Ubuntu, Jira

Senior PHP Developer Oct 2014 - Mar 2017

Ticketscript (Netherlands)

The client, a Netherlands-based company providing a self-service event ticketing software, was being overstepped by new technologies, due to reaching a certain age and being outdated.

Increased the client's revenue by 30% in under 6 months by improving existing products via V2 implementation that provided software for event organizers to fully set up a ticketed event, promote and sell tickets online through their own websites, social media channels, affiliated partner sites and at the door.
The product offered entry management tools providing event organizers with live data, sales statistics and reporting tools directly from their computers, mobile devices and smartphones. As a result, the company was acquired by Eventbrite, an American event management and ticketing website that managed to expand its business in Europe through this acquisition.

Skills: PHP 7, Zend, Propel, MySQL, VirtualBox virtual machine provisioned with Chef through Vagrant and later on - Docker, Jira, GIT, GitHub, Ubuntu

PHP Developer Mar 2014 - Sept 2014

Cloudwalkers (Denmark)

The client, a Denmark-based company, was dealing with not enough development power for its soon-to-be product, a web-based social networks aggregator.

Achieved 60% of the software development needed for V1 (before the project was shot down due to lack of funds) by implementing Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter integrations, and the main feature - posting on all social media platforms at once, and posts management from a central point.

Skills: PHP, Laravel, Eloquent, MySQL, GIT, GitHub, Ubuntu

PHP Developer Dec 2013 - Feb 2014

Timessnewroman.ro (Romania)

The client, a web-based independent satirical newspaper, was struggling to further develop their platform and was dealing with bugs due to lacking development power.

Reduced the time needed to post articles by 30% due to admin panel and db interaction improvements, and increased the number of viewers by 20% thanks to new marketing related modules. Also, contributed to module development, bug fixing, future enhancement and core refactoring.

Skills: Karybu (open-source CMS based on Symfony Framework and Bootstrap frontend that can be based on multiple types of databases), PHP, JavaScript, Cubrid DB, GIT, GitHub

PHP Developer Jul 2013 - Dec 2013

Wind River Systems (US-RO)

The client, an Alameda, California-based company developing embedded systems and cloud software, was aiming to develop an increased amount of features for one of their internal management tools but was struggling to do so, due to lacking sufficient manpower.

Achieved 100% client satisfaction by improving existing modules and developing new ones, by using a custom framework. Also, ensured that the product was able to track various items such as contracts, clients, resources, assignments, vacations and metrics.
Improved server response time improved by up to 30%, according to project managers and upper management, and increased their own productivity by 35% by providing quality on-demand functionalities.

Skills: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML, SVN, Ubuntu

PHP Developer Mar 2011 - May 2013

WindRiver (US-RO)

The client, leading provider of embedded systems and cloud software, was aiming to develop an increased amount of features for one of their internal management tools but was struggling to do so, due to lacking sufficient manpower.

Achieved 100% client satisfaction by improving existing modules and developing new ones, by using a custom framework.
Reduced execution time by up to 40% for their product, an internal tracker used for bugs, issues, tests and test runs, by improving the filtering system. Also, developed a new roles-permissions logic that allowed more accurate tracking and reduced accidents that involved sensitive information.

Skills: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, HTML, SVN, Ubuntu

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