Raluca Lapadus
Experienced Frontend Engineer specializing in building scalable and responsive web and mobile applications. Skilled in ReactJS, React Native, and modern frontend technologies, with expertise in integrating third-party services, optimizing performance, and enhancing user experience. Adept at implementing secure authentication, state management, and modular architectures to ensure maintainability and scalability.
EDUCATION
2023 – 2025
Master’s Degree – Software Engineering
University of Bucharest
2020 – 2023
Bachelor’s Degree – Computer Scienci
University of Bucharest
EXPERTISE
WORK EXPERIENCE
2022 – Present
Software Engineer Frontend at Softbinator Technologies
A hospitality matcher for partners and freelancers – client from Europe
- Worked as a Frontend Engineer using ReactJS for the B2B (Partner) application, a responsive website.
- Contributed to the mobile app using React Native.
- Implemented numerous integrations, including:
- Stripe for payment processing.
- Cal.com for scheduling.
- Firebase for backend services.
- Developed a dynamic dashboard for partners to manage bookings and profiles.
- Enhanced UI components to ensure responsive design across various devices.
- Created custom hooks for reusable logic across different components.
- Optimized performance by implementing lazy loading and code splitting.
- Utilized Context API for state management in complex components.
- Implemented client-side form validation for better user experience.
A platform that helps sales persons construct their online image. – client from U.S. (San Francisco)
- Worked on both the partner and sales platforms using ReactJS.
- Implemented integrations with Google Sheets for seamless data management.
- Utilized AWS services such as S3 for storage and SES for email services.
- Designed and developed a comprehensive profile builder for salespersons.
- Developed a Company portal for businesses to browse and evaluate sales profiles.
- Enhanced data visualization using charting libraries for performance metrics.
- Implemented search and filter functionalities for the Company portal.
- Ensured application security by integrating JWT for authentication.
- Improved application scalability and maintainability through modular code architecture.
Various projects
- Used Zustand for store management
- Integrated with Stripe payment system (instant payments, subscriptions)
- Integrated DocuSign for signing documents
- Protected routes system based on role
- Files uploader component
- Implemented complex UX flow by developing multi stepper component based on factory pattern
- Used Axios for requests, created interceptor, generic error handling
- Integrated with OAuth system using Keycloak
- Access token logic
- Refresh token logic
- Multi Factor Authentication (OTP)
- Developed an website from scratch using HTML, CSS, Javascript, Node.js and PostgreSQL for the database . The website is an online bookstore from where users will be able to create an account and make purchases.. The first page was created using HTML and the other ones were generated using EJS. Some of the CSS scripts were generated using SASS, and this helped me to create dynamic gallery. For the products to be generated and sorted by certain filters I used javascript client and for the server-side I used Node.js.
- Developed three projects for Object-Oriented Programming in C++. The first one consists in implementing a double-linked list and the second one consists in implementing the Josephus method with circular linked list. In the third project I developed an OOP program that manages a stock of cars at a trade show. It was a challenging project because I had to research a lot before I started, in order to understand in depth the concepts of OOP.