Paul Enășcuț

I work as a consultant / contractor / freelancer and help businesses take their software products to the next level. My programming language of choice is C# (back-end solutions using mainly .NET stack), but I certainly enjoy solving problems with Javascript stacks (React.js, TypeScript, NodeJS) just as well. I am continuously looking for new challenges and self-improvement. Do not hesitate to drop me a message, and let's see how I can help!

TEST ENVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT The client, active in the UK banking industry, was wasting a lot of time on repetitive and error-prone testing work due to an environment holding an unnecessary and excessive amount of poorly managed data. Eliminated excessive data volumes incurring costs of around £70K per year by implementing complex business use cases aiming to identify and pre-condition data to suit testing scenarios. Skills: .NET 6, T-SQL, Azure ServiceBus, Storage, CosmosDB, TDD, React, NextJS

ENDOSUITE SYSTEM DIGITALIZATION The client, the German leader in launching digital ventures, needed to build an of endosuite application for medical teams to improve health outcomes Reduced cognitive load of doctors by implementing a seamless integration of intra-procedural data into overall reporting Doubled team proficiency through coding guidelines, reduced code coupling by shifting from Layered to Vertical Slice Architecture Skills: .NET 6, Azure, HL7, Keycloack, Terraform, Containers, TypeScript

IMAGE CLERING SYSTEM CLOUD MIGRATION The client, the UK market leader in digital cheque processing, was dealing with a decline in cheque usage at a rate of approximately 20% per annum Effectively reduced system operating costs by migrating from physical Data Centers to a Cloud-Based platform Saving 20% in human resources costs by leveraging my analysis abilities during the requirements gathering phase. Skills: .NET 5, Serverless Event-Driven Architecture, Bicep, Az Function, Cosmos, Bus, TDD, BDD

PAYMENT E-COMMERCE PLATFORM Office Timeline LLC, one of the world’s leading Project Management tools was losing revenue due to difficulties in price-tiers customization for business customers. Improved scalability of financial transactions up to 2x by designing a queue-based order processor and offering a seamless user experience on purchase flow. Highly increased sales by designing an algorithm for processing wire-transfer subscriptions. Skills: ASP.NET, EF, Stripe, Azure, Elasticsearch, CI/CD.

YOUTUBE PLAYLIST AUTOMATION The client, acting the music industry, received many complaints because of a missing automated system for transferring their audio files to YouTube playlists. Reduced the development costs by 90% by diminishing workload to only 1 person by taking the entire responsibility for developing the app using cutting-edge technologies, exposing them through a WebAPI & SPA and addressing scalability with message queues. Skills: .NET 5, Azure, EF, Docker, Hangfire, RabbitMQ, ReactJS.

SECURITY IMPROVEMENT The client was struggling with a wide range of exploits caused by malicious bots and cyber-attackers, that affected application availability, compromised security and consumed excessive resources. Ensured highly protection by taking advantage of Azure WAF, a web application firewall & bot protection, and finetuning its policies to be compliant with different environments. Successfully blocked 99.9% of attacks by leveraging Multi-Factor Auth using TOTP. Skills: Azure, .NET

E-COMMERCE RESOURCE OPTIMIZATION The client faced app restarts and security concerns due to a legacy system with an outdated framework. Contributed to the successful migration of all 3 applications to the latest version of .NET Core by in-depth researching the new functional documentation and refactoring the code where needed. With this change, the start-up time dropped from 4 minutes to 10 seconds and overall performance lifted by 12%. There were 0 incidents after release Skills: ASP.NET, EF Core, Azure

SYSTEM PERFORMANCE OPTIMIZATION The client was faced with complaints from customers due to an unstable legacy system with huge performance issues, application crashes and a slow response time. Drastically reduced the application downtime from 4hrs / month to only 3mins by refactoring codebase causing hanging calls and dropping inefficient usage of resources, after in-depth researching the root causes with increased impact over performance. Skills: ASP.NET Core, SQL Server & T-SQL, Azure, Unit Testing.

PAYMENT E-COMMERCE - ADMIN PANEL The client, focused on Project Management tools, had considerable annual losses due to some major functionalities missing on the back office. Increased the number of financial transactions up to 40% by integrating onto back-office, the key-business operations for creating, upgrading, renewing and transferring subscriptions. Ensured 100% transparency by generating highly intuitive reports for user activities Skills: ASP.NET, EF, Azure, Elasticsearch, Quartz, Stripe, CI/CD

ESTATE MARKET EXPLOIT The client, a start-up in the RPA business was struggling in finding a solution for collecting and centralizing data relating to real estate properties, due to a lack of expertise in this field. Dropped customers’ time spent on property searching by over 90% by designing a solution for collecting and saving high-accurate data from the top 9 real estate local websites in a unified way, exposing it through a website. Skills: ASP.NET, SQL Server, SendGrid, Serilog, Hangfire, JQuery

DATA INGESTION SERVICE The client, delivering IT solutions for stores and warehouses was struggling with data losses and huge delays in data propagation due to a missing automated solution for data import onto persisted storage. Reduced the data ingestion time by 10x by designing a data ingestion pipeline for documents transportation into the persisted storage almost in no time and managing to migrate all customers with 0 impact on services provided. Skills: ASP.NET, EF, Win services, T-SQL, Unit Testing

STORE PRODUCTIVITY The client was dealing with low numbers of customers who choose their warehouse product due to missing important features. Saved 80% of the retailers’ time spent on scheduling employees’ activity by simplifying, speed up, and centralize resource planning process and implementing a reporting module. Saved $50K per store by designing an optimal budget allocation algorithm that improved forecast for retail sales. Exposed outcome through a intuitive UI. Skills: ASP.NET, SPA, EF, Telerik

EMPLOYEE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM A Romanian software company was dealing with a rising number of complaints from customers due to an outdated application Drastically improved productivity by saving 30 minutes per day for employee by migrating the main functionalities from the legacy desktop app to newly web app Ensured 360-degree transparency by designing a data ingestion component for transporting employee hours from badge system into the app database Skills: ASP.NET, NHibernate, Unit Testing, Kendo, Telerik

WHATSAPP MONITORING The client acting in consulting field, was losing significant revenue caused by the huge number of phone calls in the absence of an automated communication channel for reaching its customers. Reduced personnel costs by over $300K per year by designing a RPA solution for automating reading and sending messages from WhatsApp account. Accelerated speed of document processing with over 30x by designing an application for managing to work with PDF files. Skills: .NET, WinForms, SQL Server

ROBOT PROCESSING AUTOMATION (RPA) PROJECTS The client, acting in debt management area, was consuming significant amounts of money on doing repetitive tasks manually due to avoiding the cross to automation of business processes. Reduced costs with $10K per month per product by designing custom-tailored solutions for automating the tasks made by data entry operators, varying from simple web scrappers to complex operations like image recognition. Skills: .NET, SQL, WPF, Win services, Selenium, Python

BUILDING VISUAL SIDES OF WEB PAGES • Front-End Development: Adobe Photoshop, HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JavaScript, JQuery • Cross-browser testing & responsive web design • Good practices for writing effective code & code optimization