Petrișor Buga

External IT Services company

Continue the practices learned @Virail, developing & monitoring projects for NationalGeographic.org / FiscalNote.com using technologies like, mostly (audio/video streams recording, transcribe, identify+diarize speakers) pipelines & data ETL.

• DataDog / Kibana / SigNoz
• NodeJS (nextjs/nestjs/gasbtyjs/sanity.io)
• Python (Django / FastAPI / Flask)
• AWS devops w/ terraform
• PostgreSQL/MySQL/Redis(Valkey)
• SnowFlake
• Databricks
• Astronomer/Airflow
• Docker/K8s

Consistent data gathering & extraction

Generic backend developer fixing & adding new futures to a travel aggregator website. I was the person in charge with adding and providing the backbone data of this project using various methods (proxies, VPNs, etc) to match each of the partners needs.

The list of used & known technologies:

• Operating systems: MacOS / *nix
• Databases: PostgreSQL / MySQL / Mongo / Redis
• PHP frameworks: Phalcon / Laravel / Codeigniter / CakePHP (but in the end they’re all almost the same)
• Python frameworks: Scrapy / HomeAssistant / many others ( + pyenv / virtualenv)
• Scripting languages: Bash / Applescript
• Networking: vpns setup (OpenVPN / L2TP / Wireguard) / nginx / apache2 / haproxy / polipo / squid
• Various other *nix related environment tools, containerization, sysadmin monitor & networking etc
• Bonus: I embrace regex as a solution in developing / scripting problems

Freelancing

Slowly kickstarting the work on the soon-to-be current job @Virail (as the project was quite small back then) + on the side using the current UpWork platform to take jobs 90% based on scraping data using Scrapy python framework (additionally building quick frontends too visualize this data Bootstrap/Laravel/etc the usual tools)

PHP backend developer (+frontend at times) developing a custom CRM/Sales system for aggregated car insurance policies with a working call center on-site & supervising deployments on an AWS cloud infrastructure (called askhanuman.co.th back then now it migrated to rabbitcare.com)

Bespoke websites and services

Developing websites (server management & configuration), using the requests and technologies provided by the client. (e.g. small presentation sites, adding new features to old websites, themes/plugins for wordpress, custom CRMs etc)

Developing, customizing and maintaining websites: code, content, SEO integration, SEO marketing.

IT & Security externalization services

Maintaining a proper software/hardware work on desktop units, internal network, printers, phone system, administrating the servers & backup.