Laurentiu – PHP, Laravel, AWS

It's a wealth management platform where clients open and manage investment accounts online in EUR or USD, build diversified portfolios, and track performance in real time via a linked prepaid card and dashboard.

• Migrated a large legacy PHP monolith to Laravel as part of a 2-person team, converting pages and modules incrementally while keeping the application live in production.
• Tackled zero test coverage, severe performance bottlenecks, and tightly coupled services with no clear boundaries.
• Rewrote critical sections from scratch where refactoring was not viable.
• Built and optimized API endpoints, backend services, and database queries throughout the migration.

It's a multimodal travel platform, alongside a back-end service that aggregates real-time data from multiple travel suppliers' APIs, including hotels, tour packages, and cruises.

• Built a back-end service integrating multiple third-party supplier APIs across hotels, tour packages, and cruises into a unified data layer.
• Normalized inconsistent data formats and response structures from different suppliers into a single internal model.
• Exposed aggregated supplier data to an internal trip-builder platform, enabling end-to-end vacation planning in one flow.
• Handled ongoing maintenance and bug fixing on the existing multi-modal travel platform from the earlier project phase.
• Delivered incremental feature improvements alongside maintenance work.

It's a healthtech platform that digitizes paperwork for health equipment testing.

• Became the first developer hired on a US healthtech platform digitalizing paperwork for health-equipment testing.
• Designed and built a multi-tenant database provisioning system on AWS RDS, giving each customer an isolated database.
• Automated infrastructure scaling with scripts to provision new machines when a tier hit capacity.
• Built cleanup scripts to terminate empty machines after deletions and migrations to control costs.
• Built a tier-migration pipeline with backup, insert, integrity check, and source deletion steps.
• Solved credential management with AWS KMS, encrypting credentials at rest and decrypting only at point of use.

Various small web development projects for clients.

• Delivered small to mid-sized web development projects for diverse clients.
• Maintained and improved existing codebases.
• Identified and fixed bugs across front-end and back-end systems.
• Optimized application performance, including slow scripts and inefficient logic.
• Improved database query performance to reduce response times and enhance user experience.
• Diagnosed and resolved production issues in live environments.
• Collaborated with clients to understand requirements and prioritize fixes and improvements.

It's a fleet and travel management platform serving internal operations teams and end customers who book trips.

• Extended a fleet management platform into a multi-modal transport system, adding support for flights alongside existing bus/fleet operations.
• Mentored junior developers through code reviews and technical guidance on day-to-day feature work.
• Worked on technical SEO improvements across the platform to increase organic visibility and search rankings.
• Contributed to back-end feature development supporting the platform's expansion into new transport types.

It's a web development agency delivering custom projects for clients across different industries.

• Built web applications, CMS-based projects, and hybrid mobile apps, including a 3D house design viewer.
• Created automation test cases and testing infrastructure.