Calin Rada
Full Stack Octopus at Travelgate
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolCalin Rada is a versatile Full Stack engineer and technology leader based in London with over 20 years of hands-on software development experience and 12 years in professional roles across startups and senior leadership. Known as a "Full Stack Octopus," he moves comfortably between Python, PHP, Go, C#, TypeScript and modern stacks like React/Next.js, while also shipping infrastructure on AWS/GCP and managing databases from MySQL to ElasticSearch. He has led engineering teams as CTO and IT Director, delivering products from SMS betting platforms to SaaS and Web3 dapps, and has a track record of migrating infrastructure and coordinating outsourced teams. Calin combines low-level server and DevOps skills with front-end UX sensibilities, having built his own frameworks early in his freelance career and maintained long-lived client sites. He holds advanced studies in applied informatics and brings a pragmatic, client-focused approach—comfortable explaining technical trade-offs to non-technical stakeholders. A pragmatic tinkerer by disposition (his GitHub bio: "I am what I am"), he balances broad technology fluency with the operational rigor of running production systems.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Informatics, Bachelor's degree Informatics at Universitatea de Vest „Vasile Goldiș” din AradMaster's degree Applied informatics in science technology and economics, Master's degree Applied informatics in science technology and economics at Universitatea „Aurel Vlaicu” din AradMathematics IT, Mathematics IT at Liceul Iuliu Maniu
English, Romanian, Spanish
Github Skills (56)
phalcon10
no-framework10
php10
php-extension10
php-api10
c-extension10
recaptcha10
full-stack9
acl9
api9
high-performance9
php-library8
django8
php-framework8
codeception8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
calinrada/php-apidoc
Nov 2013 - Mar 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 13 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 4 months
apiphpphp-apino-frameworkapi-based
calinrada/django-jet
Jan 2020 - Sep 2024
Modern responsive template for the Django admin interface with improved functionality. We are proud to announce completely new Jet. Please check out Live Demo
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches, 2 tags in 4 years 8 months
live-demotemplatepythonadminimproved
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