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I am a driven, dedicated and energetic junior full stack developer, looking for a tech company where I can continue to learn and grow as a competent software developer.

My background is in the financial industry, sales and logistics where I learnt to work, communicate and collaborate with people from various departments, levels and walks of life.

For the past few years I have been teaching myself to code and because writing code brings me immense personal satisfaction I decided to join Makers Academy to boost my programming knowledge. At Makers I learnt about the fundamentals of OOP, TDD, BDD as well as best practices and methodologies when it comes to writing well tested and clean code.

JavaScript (React, Redux, Redux-saga, Jest, Enzyme, React Testing Library)

Ruby (Sinatra, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Capybara)

Databases (SQL, PostgreSQL, Firebase)

I love to learn and read about software development from all the available sources(Youtube, Medium etc). I often find myself on Google searching for new books about programming to study from and to help me deepen my understanding. Here are some of the books I really enjoyed reading:

• The Road to React, The Road to Redux , The Road to React with Firebase by Robin Wieruch,
• Mastering React TDD by Daniel Irvine,
• Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho,
• Deep Learning with Python by Francois Chollet,
• SQL for Mere Mortals by John Viescas,
• JavaScript the Definitive Guide by David Flanagan,
• JavaScript the Good Parts by Douglas Crockford.

I am a true believer in supporting, motivating and facilitating the development of others and bringing out the best in them. At Makers I took it upon myself to help a peer to go through the first weeks of bootcamp by dedicating one hour each day to motivate, explain difficult concepts, sharing learning resources or working together to solve challenging exercises.

I am a goal-oriented person that loves working with other developers to achieve a common goal. At Makers Academy we often worked on different, challenging projects in teams and this proved to be the most valuable experience during the course. I am always comfortable finding my place in a team, actively listen to my colleagues ideas and I value open and friendly communication.

I have lived in five regions, in three different countries, and have met and worked with people from all backgrounds. Every change brought something new to my life, along with new challenges and new opportunities.

I am a hungry learner who devours information about topics of interest with passion and energy.

At Makers I taught myself Ruby on Rails in one week and, together with my team, used it to build a fully tested and working clone of Facebook. For the end of course project I learned enough React, Cypress, Jest and Enzyme during a single weekend, to enable me to contribute in a meaningful way to my team’s project and goals.

A 16 week intensive programming bootcamp with a focus on TDD/BDD, Agile practices and learning how to learn.

• Object oriented programming and software design
• Full-stack web development
• Extensive pair programming
• OOP, TDD, MVC
• Agile/XP
• Ruby, Rails, JavaScript
• RSpec, Jasmine

• Level 4 Diploma for Financial Advisors

• Scholorship : The marketing of the technological innovations

• Finance & Banking
• English translation or equivalent 2:1

Swanmore College, Southampton, UK - Exam Invigilator(November 2019 - April 2020)

Utilita Energy, UK - Customer Advisor(September 2017 - June 2019) - part time

Solsbury Solutions Ltd, UK - Agency Driver(August 2015 - July 2017) - part time

Sainsbury’s Supermarket Ltd, UK - Delivery Driver(September 2014 - June 2015) - part time

SC Dynamic’92 SRL, Romania - Sales Representative(July 2007 - August 2009)

Libra Bank, Romania - Customer Advisor(February 2003 - September 2006)

SC Com-Beton SA, Romania - Admin Assistant(May 1999 - February 2003)

The Great Outdoors - I love being surrounded by nature and experience it in all its glory. I love camping from early spring till late in the season. Nothing compares with that feeling when you wake up in the morning in your tent surrounded by nature, either in a lovely camping site somewhere in rural France or somewhere high in the mountains.

Fitness become a hobby of mine as soon as I started to realize that probably I won't live forever as previously thought. I'm trying to train at least 3 times a week, anything from high intensity workouts, lifting weights, rowing on my WaterRower or cycling.