Marian Potoroacă

Overview Results-driven Software Engineer at SugarCRM, specializing in optimizing & enhancing the internal CRM demo platform. Skilled in PHP, JavaScript, Docker, Redis, & cloud technologies, with a proven track record of improving system performance, elevating user experiences, & driving innovation in modern web applications. Passionate about leveraging DevOps, cloud-native solutions, automation, & AI to accelerate development cycles & deliver value faster. Key Responsibilities -Feature Development & Platform Optimization: Led development using PHP (Slim), JavaScript (jQuery), & Twig to enhance UX, platform functionality, & performance. -Cloud Infrastructure & DevOps: Deployed & managed applications using Docker, ensuring consistency across environments & implemented CI/CD pipelines for rapid, error-free releases. -Database Management & Performance Optimization: Enhanced MySQL, Redis, & MongoDB performance through caching, query optimization, & NoSQL integrations for scalable solutions. -Cross-functional Collaboration: Worked with teams to design, develop, & deploy new features, utilizing GitHub & Jira for version control & agile workflows. Key Achievements -Performance Optimization: Reduced demo data gen script runtime from 4 hrs to 20 min, boosting efficiency & supporting faster delivery cycles. -Database Migration: Migrated 1M+ records from legacy MySQL to new schema, ensuring minimal downtime & data integrity. -Architectural Refactoring: Transitioned to MVC & implemented Dependency Injection, improving modularity, reusability, & maintainability. -Database Overhaul with NoSQL: Integrated Redis & MongoDB, enhancing system performance, scalability, & security. -ChatGPT Report Automation: Built a ChatGPT API module for auto-generating SugarCRM reports, trained on local data for customized user-driven output. -Quality Code & Automation: Applied SOLID principles & automated critical workflows, ensuring secure, maintainable, & scalable code with improved testing.

Overview Software Developer at Primcast, a Romanian server-hosting company with facilities in Bucharest & Galati. Contributed to various aspects of software development & server management, applying modern development practices and enhancing system reliability & functionality. Key Responsibilities - Bug Fixing & Feature Development: Identified & resolved bugs in legacy systems, improving stability & performance. Developed & integrated new features to elevate user experience & functionality. - Code Modernization: Refactored legacy PHP code to modern JavaScript (using jQuery), improving code modularity, maintainability, & scalability. - Server Setup & Management: Assisted in server configuration & setup for seamless application deployment, ensuring reliable operations. Technologies & Tools - Languages & Frameworks: PHP, JavaScript (jQuery), Python - Database: MySQL - Version Control: GitHub - Server Management: KiTTY (for telnet/SSH) Key Achievements - Code Modernization: Spearheaded the transition from legacy PHP to modern JavaScript with jQuery, resulting in more maintainable, scalable, & modular code. - Performance & Scalability: Contributed to feature development & refactoring efforts that significantly enhanced system performance & scalability. - Server Management: Streamlined server setup & configuration, ensuring efficient deployment & stable operations, which improved overall service reliability.

An internship within the faculty in the web domain. I did the practice at the company Verde Smart Data for a period of one month as a Full Stack Dev apprentice. I. Used technologies: - Feathers.js (back end), Vue.js (front end), MongoDB (NO SQL database); II. Learned web programming concepts: - REST API, JSON Web Tokens, TDD, ES6, NPM, GitHub and so on; III. Project description: - apply real web programming technologies & concepts in a REST API project;