Vlad Frangu
Tooling Engineer at Apify
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolVlad Frangu is a tooling-focused Full Stack Engineer from Bucharest with nine years of experience building developer tools and web products, currently working at Apify. He specializes in TypeScript/JavaScript with Vue and React (TSX) and contributes as a core maintainer to high-profile open-source projects like discord.js and the Sapphire Project. At Apify and on Crawlee he improves automation and scraping tooling—adding features such as YouTube link support, local storage purging, and performance optimizations that increase stability for real-world crawlers. Vlad combines backend reliability work (API typings, sharding and event fixes for Discord) with frontend polish, and he also brings experience in Rust, Kotlin and C#. His contributions often address subtle, behind-the-scenes issues—removing deprecated selfbot constants and resolving type and sharding bugs—that materially improve reliability for large user bases.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Politehnica University of TimisoaraHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Benjamin Franklin Theoretical High School
Romanian, English
Github Skills (38)
api-doc10
debug10
puppeteer10
typescript310
javascript10
static-typing10
node-js10
web-crawler10
discord-js10
webcrawler10
discord10
typescript10
websocket10
discordjs10
typescript210
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
discordjs/discord-api-types
Aug 2020 - Oct 2022
Up to date Discord API Typings, versioned by the API version
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 releases, 1005 reviews, 129 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vlad primarily contributed to the core codebase by addressing reported errors and adapting the code to adhere to new linting rules. They modified existing API structures, including gateway and rest functionalities within the project. The user was involved in updating specific API endpoints and channel-related functionalities. These changes suggest a focus on maintaining and improving existing API definitions and functionalities.
apiversioneddiscorddiscordjsdiscord-bot
GAwesomeBot/bot
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019
A super Awesome Discord bot
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:146 commits, 153 PRs, 639 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Vlad focused on bug fixes and implementing new features for the Discord bot. They addressed profile tag bugs within the `profile.js` file and made updates to other commands such as `dog.js`, and `poll.js`, also implemented more features to the `emotes.js`, `count.js` and `ban.js` command. These changes involved modifications to both the backend logic, likely using Node.js with Discord.js, and the presentation of information to the user through Discord embeds. They also contributed code to the web interface.
gabdiscord-jsbulmadiscordbot
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