Andreea Bărbuc

Fast learner, strongly motivated student, preparing to have a career in IT. Passionate about programming, software development, especially when the projects are in line with The Sustainable Development Goals. (Resume)

Work experience

Headstarter AI, Software Engineer Fellow (July 2024 - Present)

San Francisco, California, United States · Part-time · Remote


Infosys, Full-Stack Software Engineer Intern (August 2023 – October 2023)

Bangalore, Karnataka, India · Full-time · On-site

  • Researched and selected the optimal tech stack, including MongoDB, Angular, HTML5, CSS3, and NodeJS for a fashion industry flipbook project, resulting in a seamless integration of frontend and backend components. Saved up to 14% in spatial resources by efficiently designing the database structure.
  • Developed an immersive user experience by enabling CRUD operations for various multimedia content types within the flipbook application. Enhanced user engagement and satisfaction levels by maintaining a realistic design approach that was both agent-friendly during creation and viewer-friendly during content consumption.
  • Showcased product demos to stakeholders and provided hands-on assistance with integrating the flipbook into larger projects.

Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science - UPB, Laboratory Teaching Assistant (March 2022 - June 2023)

Bucharest, Romania · On-site

  • helped first year students to understand the basics of Data Structures and Algorithms during the laboratories

WebitFactory, Full-Stack Web Developer Intern (July 2022 – September 2022)

Bucharest, Romania · Full-time · On-site

  • Implemented responsive design enhancements using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and Laravel, achieving a 40% increase in user engagement and a 20% reduction in bounce rates by improving site interactivity and load times.
  • Utilized CronJobs within Laravel to automate task scheduling, reducing manual workload by 50% and improving overall efficiency of email and notification delivery.
  • Developed advanced database queries to personalize user experience, leading to a 15% increase in customer satisfaction and retention rates.

Dalia's Book, Education Mentor (July 2021 - July 2022)

Bucharest, Romania · Remote

  • helped children to take their first steps into the world of programming, using the Scratch language
  • taught children the concepts of Project Management in IT using Agile methodology and guided them in making a group project

EFdeN, Software Engineer Intern - Volunteer (March 2021 - September 2021)

Bucharest, Romania · Part-time · Hybrid

  • Demonstrated teamwork skills to improve the web application of the Sustainable House, working on the development of the frontend for the thermostat part and the control of the lights in the house, as well as optimizing the existing code by reducing the usage of spatial and temporal resources by 12%.
  • Created a mockup for the mobile application of the electric car charging station, considering all the actors involved.
  • Involved in the EFdeN Sustainable City project, carrying out research studies related to electric car charging stations and solar panels, and performing work on the construction site.

Academic Education

Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Automatic Control and Applied Computer Science

Bucharest, Romania · Full-time · On-site

Graduation: September 2024


Relevant Coursework: Programming, Data Structures and Algorithms, Object Oriented Programming, Numerical Methods, Databases, Web Programming, Project Management

Activities and societies:

  • participated at the second edition at the International Summer School organized by University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest in partnership with INSA Group, with the theme The road from Smart Buildings to Smart Cities, during August 23-29th, 2021
  • participated in the UPB & AUF summer school with the theme Circular economy, during July 6-8th, 2020

Projects

Toxic substance detection app (January 2021)

An object-oriented application with the help of the C ++ programming language, but also of the integrated development environment of Arduino, which detects the existence of smoke, but also of gas leaks, and which starts a buzzer and an RGB LED, changing their sound, respectively bright intensity , depending on the amount of gas detected in the air. Also, if the set limit is much exceeded, then a propeller motor starts to remove toxic substances.

The great archipelago Eao-Zinci app (May 2020)

C application which helps the archipelago leaders to distribute their resources in the most efficient way possible using graphs; the resources are displayed in lexicographic order with the help of inorder traversal of a tree

Minimized the average cost and duration of flights using Dijkstra's algorithm; improved spatial and time complexity with 50% by building the adjacency matrix of the route graph in a special form, avoiding, at the same time, the collision of the planes on the crowded routes, using the backtracking method

ATP Cup app (Mar 2020 - Apr 2020)

Software solution that automates the ranking of teams from different countries participating in sports competition, using the C programming language; the use of lists (especially circular), stacks, queues, but also binary search trees led to a decrease in the waste of temporal and spatial resources.

Volunteering

Facultaty of Medical Engineering, NUST POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Data Science Volunteer (June 2021 - October 2022)

Bucharest, Romania · Remote

Created forms and collected the international data necessary for the project' studies, using Google Forms, and analyzed them, helping the teaching staff of the Faculty of Medical Engineering from NUST Politehnica Bucharest within the Erasmus+ Sport project "United Through European Traditional Sports" 622885-EPP-1-2020-1-RO-SPO-SSCP

IOM - UN Migration, Volunteer (July 2021 - June 2023)

Bucharest, Romania · On-site

  • hold acting workshops with children of immigrants and helped them to strengthen a friendship relationship
  • carried out logistical activities within various activities and events for the beneficiaries of the organization
  • mentored a family of migrants, introduced them to the Romanian culture and traditions, the areas of general and individual interest, but also gave support in completing homework or when they needed to use public and private services, thus helped them to integrate easier and faster in Romania
  • gave Math and Romanian language lessons to the Arab beneficiaries who were in the organization's records

LSAC Bucharest, Volunteer (October 2020 - August 2022)

Bucharest, Romania · Hybrid

A wonderful environment that helped me to improve my skills of organization, communication and teamwork, making me to become a much more responsible and at the same time a more flexible person

Teach for Romania, Volunteer (August 2021)

Săcele, Brașov, Romania · On-site

Implemented the organizational, logistical and technical support activities within the Academy of Leadership and Pedagogy 2021

CCVSAR POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Volunteer (September 2019 - July 2022 )

Bucharest, Romania · Hybrid

Skills

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Soft skills

  • Emotional Intelligence
  • Adaptability
  • Analytical Thinking
  • Problem Solver
  • Teamwork
  • Intercultural Communication
  • Perseverence

Hard skills

  • C/C++
  • Laravel
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • AngularJS/ReactJS/NodeJS
  • SQL/MongoDB
  • Python
  • HTML5 / CSS3

Honors & Awards

2nd Place Prize (May 2023)

Issued by Business Tech Academy

Developed a business plan using Canvas model for a neural application that matches patients with doctors and also offers solutions for emotional and mental regulation, like anxiety attacks; pitched the business to investors and jury members

3rd Place Prize (December 2022)

Issued by European BEST Engineering Competition Challenge

Designed solutions for given case studies of various problems such as waste management and air pollution by air transport

Honorable Mention (November 2022)

Issued by Eelisa Unfolds – Innohack

Built and presented the business plan and the MVP created with my teammates during the competition to solve emergency situations in which the affected person cannot use the phone to call directly and provide the necessary information to the specialized services

1st Place Prize (May 2021)

Issued by The Scientific Communications Session

Conducted a statistical study and analyzed data to identify the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the development of physical and kinetic therapeutic activities

Get in touch

  • Email

    barbuc.andreea@gmail.com
  • Phone

    +40 787 416 016
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