Mihai Voica

Leading a team of 4 frontend developers on a mission to maintain and extend a 5-year-old UI application written in Typescript, based on ReactJs (with Material-UI, Redux, Highcharts) and tested with Playwright. This team’s historical high turnover is fully reflected in the difficult and unmaintained code base. Responsibilities range from guiding the architecture along a unified technical direction, to managing the team performance (KPIs, feedback, motivation, mentoring, growth etc.), dealing with 3rd party contractors, and aligning the scope and timeline of development with the business (project managers, marketeers, analysts, etc.). Still coding and reviewing pull requests every day.

Helped with development of a highly graphical saas product, involving a great deal of data visualization around demand forecasting. Maintained a delicate balance between development speed and future scalability. Back-end was written in python, with flask and pandas. Front-end was written in react, with material-ui, typescript, and visx (d3).

Mentored a team of 4 other front-end devs on a stack built around react, redux, typescript, rxjs, bootstrap, sass, webpack. Developed an internal components' library that accelerated development while promoting standardization. Coordinated with other technical stakeholders to implement a multi-tenant strategy based on a micro-service architecture that combined easy upgrades with a great level of flexibility. Ensured code quality via unit and e2e tests written in karma and testcafe, alongside markdown technical documentation. Collaborated with other non-technical stakeholders to ensure market fit and accurate expectations regarding deliverables.

Worked on a rewrite of a transportation fare management product in a web architecture, consisting of a JavaScript UI written in ES8, a backend for frontend written in NodeJs, and several .net REST apis for data access. Technical details: ReactJs with a Redux + Saga pattern, Jest for testing, Postcss for styling, Webpack for build, and NodeJs + Express for api aggregation.

Work description changed throughout the years, as follows: Started working on the development of the product, involving a REST backend written in C#, with windows services written in C#, sitting on top of Redis as DB and Elasticsearch as search index and event log engine. Frontend was written in Javascript (jQuery, Knockout js), as an in-house configurable framework. As the product reached maturity, I became customer-facing, translating business specs into technical specs, doing analysis & time estimation of customer-specific parts to be developed. As the team grew, my responsibilities increased with coaching newcomers and leading teams of 2-3 devs throughout the entire typical phase 1 release cycle: initial platform configuration, legacy data migration, development of custom integration points and extensions, support during burn-in phase.

Built client specific scalable web apps on Linux, with Python (Django) as backend, RabitMQ and Celery for asynchronous backend job processing, Postgresql as database, and Solr for indexing and search support. Handling Linux server administration (Amazon web services) and app deployment with Puppet. In charge of specs and deliverables' quality control for the work done by subcontractors.

Worked on image segmentation for photos of a handwritten ancient Tibetan text. The goal was to obtain training data for an OCR engine, without having features or model characters defined. The segmented data was aggregated into classes, based on which class identifiers (models) were computed. Development was done in Matlab.

Worked on a data flow visualization tool for a publisher-subscriber system over different physical link types. Programming was done in C++ using QT libraries for graphical user interface.