Alecs Popa

Work Experience

Ruby on Rails Developer / Machine Learning Engineer

The Arc

03/2017 - 03/2018 (1 year) (remote)

Helping people diagnosed with Autism, Down syndrome, and a range of diagnoses across the spectrum of intellectual and developmental disabilities.

Tasks

• Building the MVP of a new product.
• Creating a recommender model to better match people with disabilities with tools that might help them.
• Working with Google ML Engine to train and serve Tensorflow models.
• Working with Amazon Sagemaker to train and serve Tensorflow models.

Ruby on Rails Developer

[e-spres-oh]

07/2013 - present (5 years) Timisoara, Romania

Outsourcing company with a cool office in the center of Timisoara focused on building quality and scalable products for our clients.

Tasks

• Improving and scaling the API for an e-learning platform.
• Building APIs to be used by mobile apps as well as web apps.
• Creating a platform for ordering ingredients for different recipes.

Ruby on Rails Developer

Riskline

09/2015 - 12/2016 (1 year) (remote)

Providing risk alerts and pre-travel advisory to big companies in order to help them know where it's save to send employees.

Tasks

• Improving and fixing the API.
• Adding automated tests to the app using RSpec.
• Working with maps and plotting informations on top of 3rd party layouts.

CTO & Co-Founder

Kiteops

04/2013 - 04/2014 (1 year) Timisoara, Romania

Managing your servers and deploying your application with easy to use templates.

Tasks

• In charge of all technical decisions.
• Developing the platform in Ruby on Rails.
• HowToWeb Startup Spotlight presentation:

Frontend Developer

Flooved

10/2012 - 06/2013 (1 year) London, UK

Enable access to a huge library of open access content gathered from university teachers and students.

Tasks

• Implement a new frontend using Backbone and Bootstrap.
• Building a responsive interface for mobile / table / desktop

Skills

• Ruby on Rails
• Ruby
• PHP
• Javascript
• MySql
• Postgres
• Machine Learning

Education

Master in Artificial Intelligence and Distributed Computing

West University of Timisoara

10/2015 - 07/2017

Computer Science - Bachelor of Informatics

West University of Timisoara

10/2008 - 07/2011

Achievements & Certificates

Convolutional Neural Networks 02/2018

Structuring Machine Learning Projects 01/2018

Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization 12/2017

Neural Networks and Deep Learning 12/2017

Coursera - Machine Learning 10/2016

Open Source Contributions

Add support for changing comments in MySql for Ruby on Rails 09/2017

• Implemented the feature, added unit tests for both Postgres and MySql databases and successfully merged the code into Ruby on Rails repo.

Return friendly error messages in Elixir lang 06/2016

• Successfully fixed an open issue and merged the code into Elixir lang repo.

Docker database for local use

• Created a Docker environment for easing the work with multiple databases.