Alexandru Anca
Staff Software Developer at Phoenix
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAlexandru Anca is a Staff Software Developer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing web platforms, currently based in Old Toronto. He specializes in Ruby on Rails back-end engineering, having led large migrations, billing system redesigns, multi-currency and TOTP security implementations, and performance work at FreshBooks. Alexandru has hands-on experience breaking monoliths into microservices, improving test reliability, and adopting multi-threaded servers and CI/CD—skills proven across startups and product teams. He contributes to the Ruby ecosystem (notably maintaining compatibility for the composite_primary_keys gem with Rails 6), showing attention to framework internals and long-term maintenance. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and team leader, he combines quick conceptual grasp with a pragmatic focus on shipping resilient, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Advanced Web Engineering, Master's degree Advanced Web Engineering at University of EssexBachelor's degree It For Business Management, Bachelor's degree It For Business Management at Romanian American University, BucharestBachelor's degree Informatics, Bachelor's degree Informatics at Coventry University
English, French, Romanian
Github Skills (6)
activerecord10
ruby-rails10
rails10
ruby10
postgresql7
database-management5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
composite-primary-keys/composite_primary_keys
Apr 2019 - Apr 2020
Composite Primary Keys support for Active Record
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Alexandru primarily contributed to updating the composite_primary_keys gem to maintain compatibility with recent Rails 6 releases. Their work involved adapting code to changes in ActiveRecord's preloading of associations, removing unnecessary arguments, and updating methods to align with changes in the Rails framework. Furthermore, the user updated the gem to use the released version of Rails 6.0.0 and removed a deprecation warning.
activerecordcomposite-primary-key
ionut998/departure
Oct 2020 - Jan 2022
Percona's pt-online-schema-change runner for ActiveRecord migrations.
Contributions:22 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
railsperconarubyonline-schema-changemigrations
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