Claudiu Nicola
Senior Software Engineer at Kaiterra
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Top SchoolClaudiu Nicola is a senior software engineer with 10 years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native, microservices-based backends across IAQ, Customer Journey and FinTech domains. He specializes in scalable distributed systems, CI/CD and event-driven architectures, and has hands-on experience migrating services to Go and integrating auth systems like Keycloak. A pragmatic "you build it, you run it" practitioner, he’s led small teams and mentored engineers while owning backend architecture and product delivery. He contributes to open-source—improving robustness in the popular Meilisearch PHP client by overhauling error handling and tests—and blends a Computer Science foundation with a master’s in Public Governance to align technical solutions with strategic needs. Based in Cluj-Napoca, he’s also the founder of a local tech NGO, reflecting his commitment to community and practical innovation.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul Național "Avram Iancu" CîmpeniUniversitatea Babeș-Bolyai din Cluj-Napoca
Romanian, English
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Github Skills (8)
meilisearch10
php10
client-library10
api10
exception-handling10
apidoc10
testing9
sdk9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
meilisearch/meilisearch-php
Feb 2021 - Apr 2021
PHP wrapper for the Meilisearch API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Claudiu primarily refactored the codebase to improve error handling within the Meilisearch PHP client. The user renamed exceptions for API-related errors and refactored the code to throw and catch exceptions for network communication issues. Additionally, the user updated multiple files and tests, demonstrating a good understanding of the codebase and its functionalities by adding and modifying exception handling, improving the robustness of the client library. The user also enhanced tests to cover various exception scenarios.
api-clientapiphpphp-wrappersdk
claudiunicolaa/web-programming
Feb 2017 - May 2020
3th semester @ UBB
Contributions:5 PRs, 22 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 3 months
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