Mircea-Lucian Blaga

Digitizing every drink moment and Rethinking Loyalty! - Owner of the company’s software technical architecture. - Accountable for shaping technology solutions from ideation and design all the way to deployment and post-deployment enhancement. Skills: Technical leadership, Technical assessments, Team structure, Technical Architecture & Design, .Net Core, Angular, Code Reviews, AWS, OpenAPI, Swagger, Unit Testing, Acceptance Testing, BitBucket, Angular, TeamCity, Thundra, Segment.

I work as an architect / consultant / contractor / freelancer and help businesses scale their payment products. My experience with .NET and Java technologies, architecture and development helps me design and implement scalable and efficient cloud based software solutions. I am continuously looking for new challenges and self-improvement in projects with a worldwide impact.

The customer needed to integrate multiple new markets to increase its portfolio and margins. • Prepared the launch of new markets to double the number of hotels in portfolio by integrating a new booking engine in the ecosystem using Rest APIs. • Decreased the solution cost by reducing the content traffic and aligning multiple teams and flows Skills: Architecture & Design, Code Reviews, AWS, Snowflake, OpenAPI, GitLab, Terraform, DataDog, Requirements, Dependencies, Workshops, Delivery.

Smart Router integration The customer had their profits diminished due to multiple third parties fees on their online transactions. Successfully routed the $1 billion yearly value transactions of the customer saving 15% from fees and 30% from declines recoveries by designing a custom-tailored solution that integrated the Smart Router service with the Payment Gateway. Skills: .Net Core, Architecture & Design, Code Reviews, AWS, Docker, OpenAPI.

Client Management The company was about to lose important revenue from a new client because it could not ramp up new teams fast enough. Assembled in record time 5 fast-paced agile teams with 12 experienced developers by conducting interviews with more than 25 candidates from multiple locations Skills: .Net Core, Architecture, AWS, CI\CD, Code Quality, Technical assessments, Team structure, Requirements, Delivery.

Hosted Payment Pages with 3DS version 2.X The payment service provider’s small and medium business hosted payment pages product was losing its customers subscriptions because it was not compliant with the new European Payments Services Directive. Saved 1 million daily transactions and $28 million annual revenue by designing a highly intuitive 3DS integration with the existing hosted payment pages solution Skills: Java, Architecture, JavaScript, Oracle, Maven, GitHub, Jenkins, SonarQube.

SCA Exemption Services The payment service provider was risking the loss of the revenue from all their European transactions because they did not offer alternative solutions to minimize the Strong Customer Authentication regulation impact before 2021. Successfully boarded 6 major customers to Exemption Engine services bringing $1 million yearly revenue by decreasing the abandonment rate of the transactions 10x Skills: Java, Architecture, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Oracle, Splunk, Maven, GitHub.

StarterSite with episerver The company was not gaining new customers because their bids for new ecommerce sites creation were too high in costs and took too much time to build. Drastically reduced the site creation time by 10% and its cost by 25% by designing a highly configurable template solution that reused out of the box features based on domain driven componentization. Skills: .Net, Architecture, C#, Vue.JS, Episerver, Azure, SDLC.

WeChat Pay Desktop The payment service provider was losing revenue from APAC markets as their products were not offering a good enough coverage. Surpassed all expectations with $2 million revenue from 10k+ transactions in the first month by designing a customer friendly async Rest API. Flawlessly handled more than 5x the estimated traffic with no issues. Skills: Java, Architecture, Spring MVC, Spring Boot, Oracle SQL, Maven.

Migration center The day to day business of the client was reduced, impacting the revenues for a long time due to an unsuccessful data migration process. Saved up to 60% in costs and 80% in project duration in 1000+ successful migration projects worldwide. Consistently earned $2 million yearly revenue 10+ years after the product creation. Skills: .Net, Java, Architecture, Delphi, Oracle, TFS, Integrations: SharePoint, Outlook, Excel, eRoom, Documentum, IBM Notes, Box and Alfresco.

SmartBar The client was losing money in maintenance costs and staff training because of the high complexity of their enterprise CMS. Increased the usability of the enterprise content management system for over 5k employees and generated over $500k in revenue Decluttered the data by providing state of the art Lucene based search engine for lightning-fast documents retrieval Skills: .Net WinForms, Java, Architecture, SOAP, SVN, DCTM Viewer, DCTM, Lotus Notes, Lucene, PLM