Paul Purcel
Senior NodeJS Developer at Cognizant
Bucharest, Romania
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Top SchoolPaul Purcel is a Senior NodeJS Developer based in Bucharest with 11 years building scalable web and cloud-native systems, recently transitioning from long-term PHP leadership into Go and Kubernetes-driven architectures. He combines hands-on backend engineering, DevOps/GitOps and IoT integration experience—having architected large-scale e-commerce, manufacturing ticketing and IoT monitoring platforms and deployed private Kubernetes infrastructure. Comfortable across the stack, Paul has led teams, designed high-throughput services using message brokers and Percona, and automated deployments with Docker, Ansible and cloud APIs. An avid maker who brings his hobby in 3D printing and digital manufacturing into pragmatic engineering solutions, he’s both a pragmatic problem-solver and a developer who deliberately reinvents his toolset.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Elie Radu Technical High School
Romanian, English
Stackoverflow
68reputation
6kreached
7answers
7questions
Github Skills (47)
postman6
restful6
php6
android6
globalscope6
bash6
autoload6
json6
git6
ajax6
oop6
yii6
framebuffer5
data-structures5
payment5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bigpaulie/SmartHome
May 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
Lummetry/HyFy-releases
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 PRs, 486 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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