Paul Enascut

👋 I work as a consultant / contractor / freelancer and help businesses take their software products to the next level. 💻 My programming language of choice is C# (back-end solutions using mainly .NET stack), but I certainly enjoy solving problems with JavaScript stack (React, Typescript, NodeJS), being at the same time an Azure & DevOps advocate. I am continuously looking for new challenges and self-improvement. 📩 Do not hesitate to drop me a message, and let's see how I can help!

END-TO-END YOUTUBE PLAYLIST AUTOMATION ✔️ The client, a start-up company providing software solutions for the music industry, received many complaints from its customers because of a missing automated system for transferring their audio files to YouTube personal playlists easily and interactively. • 𝐄𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 #𝟏 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 by giving them a solution for importing audio files onto their YouTube playlists, and providing them further access to a reliable and consistent music database for a fast-lookup of their songs & related information (artists, genres, playlists, videos) - all through a highly-intuitive music library with a modern UI. Using this application, they saved time and effort when comes to automate their YouTube playlists due to increasing 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟓𝐱 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠. • 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐩𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝟗𝟎% by diminishing workload to only 1 person by taking the entire responsibility for designing and developing the application using cutting-edge technologies, exposing them through a highly flexible, robust, maintainable, and well-documented WebAPI and addressing scalability with message queues. • 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 by making use of SPA on the front-end and integrating SignalR on the high-impact pages for real-time web functionalities. Enhanced the UI by integrating highly useful widgets like grids, graphs & charts, schedulers, file explorer, media player, and many more. • 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐮𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬 by integrating an audio fingerprinting module by which the system can recognize an already existing song from a user collection with a 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝟏𝟎𝟎%.

PAYMENT E-COMMERCE PLATFORM ✔️ One of the world’s leading Project Management tools based on USA, selling its major In-House product in form of subscriptions was losing customers and revenue due to difficulties in price-tiers customization for business customers. • 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟐𝐱 by designing a queue-based order processing solution and offering a seamless user experience on the purchase flow. • 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝗶𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬 by designing an algorithm for processing wire-transfer subscriptions destined to business customers and resellers, after in-depth researching the functional documentation of financial instruments. Exposed new features through a highly intuitive UI consumed by the sales department. • 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐁 𝐥𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐛𝐲 >𝟑𝟎% and 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝟔𝟎% by migrating analytics data to a highly scalable distributed engine (Elastic Search) by implementing a data ingestion pipeline with a light-speed transfer rate. • 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝟐𝟓% by taking responsibility for code review activities, being highly persuasive within my network of top talented developers, and optimizing the build and release pipelines throughout Azure DevOps CI/CD.

SECURITY IMPROVEMENT ON E-COMMERCE SYSTEM ✔️ The client, an e-commerce company, was struggling with a wide range of attacks and exploits caused by malicious bots and cyber-attackers, that affected application availability, compromised security and consumed excessive resources. • 𝐄𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝗵𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝘆 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 by taking advantage of Azure WAF, a web application firewall & bot protection, and finetuning its policies to be compliant with different environments. • 𝐒𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐬 by leveraging Multi-Factor Auth using TOTP (Time-based One-time Password Algorithm) and imposing stronger password policies for new and existing users.

E-COMMERCE SYSTEM RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION ✔️ The client, an e-commerce company, faced app restarts and security concerns due to a legacy system with an outdated framework. • 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐮𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐟𝐮𝐥 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝟑 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 with related thirdparty libraries to the latest version of .NET Core by in-depth researching the new functional documentation and refactoring the code where needed. With this change, the 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭-𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟒 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟎 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝𝐬 and 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝟏𝟐%. There were zero incidents after the new version was released. • 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻𝘂𝗲 by switching from VM (IaaS) to a cheaper and more efficient Azure Function (FaaS) after a fast-paced team effort, leveraging Service Bus triggers to consume messages instead of legacy worker service.

E-COMMERCE SYSTEM PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION ✔️ An e-commerce company was faced with complaints from customers due to an unstable and unscalable legacy system with huge performance issues, application crashes and a slow response time. • 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟒𝐡𝐫𝐬 / 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝟑𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐬 by refactoring codebase causing hanging calls and dropping inefficient usage of resources, after in-depth researching the root causes with increased impact over performance using Azure instruments. • 𝐀𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟑𝐱 by improving caching for faster retrieve of slow resources and reduced the number of database and external API calls, after a rough refactoring of the legacy codebase following clean code principles and design patterns, covered by rigorous regression tests. • 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐣𝐨𝐫 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟗𝟕𝟏𝐦𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝟐𝟎𝐦𝐬 per operation by redesigning bad looking queries in benchmarks and increased many 𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟑𝟎𝐱 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 after replacing table scan with index seek, thus eliminating UI timeouts. Also, the 𝐃𝐓𝐔 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞 𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟕𝟎-𝟖𝟎% 𝐭𝐨 𝟑𝟎-𝟒𝟎%, increasing system scalability.

PAYMENT E-COMMERCE SYSTEM - ADMIN PANEL ✔️ The client, a company focused on Project Management tools, selling his major In-House product in form of subscriptions, had considerable annual losses due to some major functionalities missing on the back office. • 𝐈𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝟒𝟎% by integrating onto the back office dashboard, the key-business operations for creating, upgrading, renewing and transferring subscriptions. The flexibility doubled for the sales department which every newly released feature. • 𝐄𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝟎𝟎% 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 by generating highly intuitive reports for user activities and maintaining a startling line of communication with the sales department so that their awareness doubled, leading to better A/B testing and highly improved forecasts.

DATA INGESTION SERVICE ✔️ The client, delivering IT solutions for Italian stores and warehouses was struggling with data losses and huge delays in data propagation due to a missing automated solution for data import onto persisted storage. • 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐲 𝟏𝟎𝐱 by designing a data ingestion pipeline for documents transportation into the persisted storage almost in no time and managing to 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝟎 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭 on services provided. • 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝟑𝐱 and 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐥 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝟖𝟎% compared to the standard solution by designing and implementing a highly scalable job queue for processing time-consuming operations and wrapping it in a windows service.

STORE PRODUCTIVITY ✔️ The client, an Italian software company was dealing with low numbers of customers who choose their warehouse product due to missing important features such as resource planning and reports generation which led to low productivity. • 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝟎 in the development process by keeping a starting line of communication with the client having daily meetings, leading to a fast development process. • 𝐒𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝟖𝟎% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐬’ 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 spent on scheduling employees’ activity and their movement between different operating units by simplifying, speed up, and centralize the resource planning process and implementing a reporting module using Telerik API. • 𝐌𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐞 $𝟓𝟎𝐊 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐞 by designing an optimal budget allocation algorithm that improved forecast for retail sales, and exposing the outcome through a highly intuitive UI.

EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ✔️ A Romanian software company was dealing with a rising number of complaints from customers due to an inefficient and outdated application for its employees, leading to lower productivity. • 𝐃𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝟑𝟎 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 per day for the employee by migrating the main functionalities from the legacy desktop app to newly web app offering a seamless user experience and reacting to escalations with high agility. • 𝐄𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝟑𝟔𝟎-𝐝𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲 by designing a data ingestion component for transporting employee hours generated by the badge system into the application database and constructing different kinds of reports with various metrics destined to employees and the HR department.

WHATSAPP MONITORING ✔️An Italian client acting in consulting and debt collection field was losing significant time and revenue caused by the huge number of phone calls, back-and-forth emails, the number of transmitted documents, and the overwhelming work made by human operators on data analysis, all of these in the absence of an automated communication channel for reaching its customers. • 𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 $𝟑𝟎𝟎𝐊 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫 by designing from scratch a full RPA solution for automating reading and sending messages from WhatsApp account, developing a library for downloading and saving media messages, and implementing a light-speed logging system with a highly intuitive UI for extracting and putting together valuable human-readable insights from the live chat. • 𝐃𝐫𝐨𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐫𝐞𝐪𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟑 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟓 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 and 𝐚𝐜𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐝𝐨𝐜𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐜𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝟑𝟎𝐱 by designing an application for managing to work with PDF files, leading to an improved communication and happier customers.

ROBOT PROCESSING AUTOMATION (RPA) PROJECTS ✔️ The client, one of the largest consulting & debt management Italian companies, was consuming significant amounts of money on doing repetitive tasks manually due to uselessly avoiding the cross to automation of business processes. • 𝐓𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐞𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 $𝟏𝟎𝐊 𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡 per product by designing custom-tailored solutions for automating the tasks made by data entry operators, varying from simple web scrappers for collecting data or submit forms, to complex and demanding operations like image recognition or interaction with various desktop applications. • 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝟑 𝐑𝐏𝐀 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 per month by in-depth researching the functional documentation of business flows and maintaining a starting line of communication with the client. With each RPA solution released, my expertise grew, leading to fast work speed and efficient work.