Develop and maintain software for retail systems, both front-end(POS) and back-end(server applications)
Application and database maintenance
Module development. Develop new features according to the client's description
Responsible for the selling application's promotion engine. Implement new algorithms.
Develop and maintain an ordering system based on a client/server and plug-in architecture.



Technical Team Lead

From small Arduino projects to REST clients in C, I worked on all kinds of projects .

I have been working with C in a way or another since high-school.
It still is my preferred "go to" language when working with embedded, low-spec machines or where performance and resource consumption are critical.

Even though I started programming with C++ around the same time as I did with C, in my professional experience, I had to work mainly with C.
Now I tend to use modern C++ feature more and more.

It quickly became my favorite part of developing cross-platform projects, having a clear build system and dependencis,

Even though Java is rarely my go to choice I've had some projects involving Java development. 
From providing a Java interface over a native static library to quick services using spring boot for rapid prototyping.

I've been using Python for testing my main projects, creating mock services or clients or even generating C\C++ code. One of the most complex projects involving Python is a script used to translate all the database creation scripts(tables, procedures, triggers, etc) from IBM DB2 to PostgreSQL.

Although my experience with Python is not vast, I always enjoy using it because the amount of functionality you get for the code you write.

I'm an old user of VirtualBox and a big fan of virtual machines.
I started replacing the "hard-coded" virtual machines with Vagrant boxes for build systems in my projects. I now have stable, predictable versions of the virtual machines, consuming less resources on my dev. machine.

For me unit testing is an integral part of software development.
Although I have been testing my code for far longer than 3 years, this time-frame is relevant for the Catch2 library.

I have been using relational databases with SQL in most of the projects and programming languages I worked with.
Starting with ODBC and going to more high-level such as Java's JPA with Hibernate.

My main area of experience is on the client side using C\C++ with ODBC or using one of the native drivers from the db provider.

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Alexandru S.

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