Bogdan Covrig 🌻
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Bogdan Covrig 🌻

Software Engineer in the Netherlands, he/him

antimatter with added self-pity

2 years ago

About

into dev tools, privacy, and automation. cool with typescript, react, and node. currently building e-commerce platforms

usually busy with movies, concerts, and sitting in the park for no apparent reasons. oxford comma enjoyer

Contact

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Work Experience

2022 — Now

Building web platforms with rich content and commerce data. Designing component-based architectures to scale e-commerce businesses and help them grow bigger.

Advocating and implementing tech best practices within organisations. Assuring they adopt modern architectures for their modern businesses.

Curating tech content, researching tech trends, and helping clients stay aware of the tech landscape.

2019 — 2022

Built data infrastructures, ETL pipelines, and APIs to serve data that supports legal research. Developed web apps and internal tools to enhance data visualisation and analysis.

Research areas: deceptive design, network analysis, and topic modelling.

2018 — 2019

Designed and developed commercial web platforms and CRMs. Developed internal tools for logging, CI/CD automation, and communication.

Volunteering

2021 — Now

Member of a warm community of developers that offers mentorship, networking, and education.

A/V team lead, assisting the members into processing and publishing educational tech content on our Youtube channel.

Projects

Ongoing

Building Elevate's backend and APIs. The app connects 700 users with the services available in the 7 CBRE offices buildings (gyms, restaurants, bike rentals) and allows users to directly book them through the app. Building with NestJS, Postgres, and Directus CMS.

Ongoing

Building Nilfisk's new e-commerce platform on top of Salesforce’s B2B composable services. Considerably optimising platform performance and revamping the user experience. Building with Next.js, Algolia, and Stripe.

Ongoing

Curating and editing weekly newsletter about Node.js, Javascript, Typescript, and technology. Curated and delivered internally, archived on the web.

2024
Jonssons Workwear – Client at DEPT®

Building the new content-rich e-commerce website for Jonsson Workwear, Africa's leading workwear brand. Building on top of Next.js, Strapi, and Commercetools.

2024

Building a hybrid content/commerce platform for the Apparel Branding solutions offered by Avery Dennison. Building with Next.js, Contentful, and Algolia.

2023

Building a new headless CMS solution for a clinical trial platform. Building with Contentstack, Node.js, React, and Azure DevOps.

2023

Building the backend infrastructure of an educational platform about the building blocks of Web3. Building with Next, NextAuth, tRPC, Prisma, deployed on Azure.

2022

Network analysis software platform to extract, transform and load Dutch and European case law from different data sources.

2021

The Summer Institute in Computational Social Science brings together students and researchers interested in the intersection of law computer science, and social sciences.

2021

Created a transparent system for spontaneous micro-transactions between creators and audiences. Grant for the Web awarded by Coil, Mozilla and Creative Commons.

Side Projects

Ongoing

Short link generator app built with Remix, Radix, Tailwind and deployed on Deta Space.

Ongoing

Maintaining the public website of the NLLP Workshop, built with Gatsby and Markdown content. Rebuilding with Remix.

2022

Maintaining a Remix Stack to setup minimal typsescript, tailwind, linting, and formatting.

2022

Action to deploy projects to Deta Micros.

2021

Action that notifies members of the community of their code of conduct when this is mentioned.

Writing

2022

Paper that explores the economic activity of dark web data markets nowadays by performing a comprehensive measurement of digital goods based on an original dataset.

2022

Paper that explores blockchain solutions for transparent philanthropy campaigns. Donations are recorded via micro-transactions and tracked through a browser extension.

2021

Conference paper that measures trader compliance with the legal instruments that protect consumers from unfair commercial practices on e-commerce platforms.

2020

Paper that explores what legal research on AI constitutes of and how it has evolved, while addressing the issues of information retrieval and research duplication.

2020

Walkthrough blog post on how to create clones of forks on Gitpod. Working example on the Forem codebase.

2019

Walkthrough blog post of how to run a server on a Raspberry Pi. Using Raspbian OS, SSH, PM2, and Nginx.

2019

Walkthrough blog post on serverless functions on Firebase. Using realtime databases, Node.js, and Postman.