Mihai
From Romania (GMT+3)
9 years of commercial experience
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Mihai – Python, Django, Linux
Dedicated and well-organized Senior Back-End Web Developer with solid knowledge in Python and Django, an in-depth understanding of essential concepts for web API development, and experience in building fast and resource-efficient web scrapers/crawlers. Mihai is qualified to work on web development Python projects of any complexity. On top of that, he is known to be open to new knowledge and challenges, so do not hesitate to get Mihai on board.
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Full-stack Software Engineer
This is an Instagram email scraper that quickly helps clients collect targeted leads from IG on autopilot.
The main features Mihai worked on are:
- a very fast queue for processing tasks;
- exporting data;
- handling payments.
- Interacted with Google Drive API to upload data to Google Sheets;
- worked on a microservice for high-scale web scraping;
- made the Frontend interactive by using Vue.js in combination with Django;
- implemented a payment processing system using Stripe with automatic account activation.
Full-stack Developer
This is a web app that helps businesses connect to the best-targeted influencers from Instagram, with a database of 200+ million influencers.
The features Mihai worked on:
- database management (importing the data from .csv files, setting up a backup process, improving query speeds);
- REST API Implementation;
- external API Integration: Stripe and Google Sheets;
- fetching data from our REST API.
- Integrated subscription using Stripe;
- integrated data export using Google Sheets API;
- improved the speed of the API by removing some data from the SQL queries that weren't a must;
- ran a task queue using Redis and Celery;
- tested front-end using Selenium;
- set up development and production environments using Docker and Docker-compose.
Full-stack Developer
This was a search engine ranking position checker for Youtubers. After adding a YouTube channel link, it would load all the videos uploaded on that channel and suggest keywords to be checked for their position on Google and YouTube.
- Created backend architecture;
- integrated backend and frontend using an API;
- set up the development and production environments using Docker and Docker-compose;
- worked on the subscription system with Webhooks to activate the subscription automatically using Paddle for taking payments;
- wrote e2e tests using Selenium;
- worked with the YouTube API and reverse engineering Google search results to emulate them with HTTP web requests;
- integrated background tasks with Celery and Redis for long-running tasks.
Full-stack Developer
Multiple Windows software to help people trying to promote their accounts or products on Instagram.
- Automated payment processing and invoicing through APIs and webhooks;
- designed UI using WinForms and WPF for multiple products;
- used Selenium for web automation and changed some parameters to emulate a real user as much as possible;
- worked on reverse engineering APIs calls and mobile apps to simulate a mobile app without all the overhead of running android/iOS emulators;
- for deploying the Django project, configured and optimized Apache and Nginx to run the Django app alongside a WordPress website on the same server and obtain the best performance.