Senior Software Engineer
A three-month backend engagement on an AI voice product for a UK home-services marketplace — unfamiliar in-house tooling, ambiguous AI-generated data, and every piece of work documented as it landed.
Read moreTwo years at YLD meant four different industries, four different codebases, and four different sets of constraints. Each project required ramping up quickly in an unfamiliar domain and contributing production-quality work alongside existing teams.
Worked on cryptocurrency wallet infrastructure across React Native mobile clients and Node.js backend services. Helped maintain and extend systems handling real transactions at scale.
Contributed to PCI-compliant payment card linking and transaction data pipelines. Security and compliance shaped every decision — it was a good lesson in building with constraints.
Helped develop customer-facing energy management applications. Worked with Kubernetes and Terraform to keep the platform reliable during peak demand.
Contributed Web3 features to an NFT marketplace, helping integrate blockchain interactions into a conventional web stack.
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Alinus Dumitrana
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A three-month backend engagement on an AI voice product for a UK home-services marketplace — unfamiliar in-house tooling, ambiguous AI-generated data, and every piece of work documented as it landed.
Read moreOwned the frontend for a government internal management platform — built it from scratch with React and TypeScript, working directly with the design and backend teams.
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