Hello, my name is
Bogdan Mihai Nicolae
I'm a web developer, trainer and Youtuber

As a Frontend Lead, responsible for guiding and mentoring colleagues in their career development, defining the department's UI architecture, conducting hiring interviews, and leading multiple front-end teams. Designed, developed, and maintained single-page applications using Angular and React, as well as CI/CD pipelines with tools like TeamCity, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, and Helm charts. Additionally, created and managed REST APIs using Java, Spring, and Oracle SQL technologies, while actively supporting and sharing knowledge with less experienced team members. Developed training materials, delivered training sessions, and played an active role in the Security Engineering Community by improving security practices and promoting OWASP Top 10 through hacking presentations.

Helped start and now teach a Banking Software Design class for the Financial Computing Master's program with colleagues from Deutsche Bank. The course covers the whole process of building an enterprise application, from planning and design to development, testing, and going live.

Developed and maintained AngularJS and React single-page applications, built mobile apps for iOS and Android using React Native, Redux, and Redux Saga, improved app performance for better speed and scalability, gave presentations on advanced tech topics, led training sessions and workshops on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and mentored junior developers.

Created and built user interface solutions for web applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, tested front-end code to ensure it worked across different browsers, took part in all phases of the product life cycle for multiple projects, and developed custom CSS frameworks using preprocessors like LESS and SASS, along with methodologies such as BEM and SMACSS.

Collected relevant information, concerning the macro-economic environment and market players, in order to signal relevant trends and market developments. Also, executed analyses concerning trends and developments in the market, competitor and customer behaviour and the impact of intended Marketing campaigns.

As a Design Engineer in the hydropower industry, responsibilities involved creating documentation for all project stages from planning to commissioning, developing detailed technical specifications, proposing various project solutions and choosing the most cost-effective and suitable one, offering technical support to clients, contributing papers at conferences, participating in exhibitions, and producing assembly drawings with Autodesk Inventor and AutoCAD, ensuring they met technical specifications and followed required procedures.