Petru Vicolas
Senior Frontend Engineer at Index.dev
Chișinău, Moldova
Summary
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Top SchoolPetru Vicolaș is a Senior Frontend Engineer with a decade of web experience and seven years focused on modern React and Next.js ecosystems, specializing in TypeScript, performance, and resilient UX for high‑traffic products. He designs typed, server-first architectures and pioneered a 3-layer contract model (Swagger types, Zod schemas, normalized frontend models) to reduce frontend-backend drift across complex CMS-driven platforms. Petru has built real-time trading dashboards serving hundreds of thousands of users and optimized streaming/video products, balancing sub-second data freshness with rendering cost and reliability. He elevates delivery quality through CI/CD hardening, semantic SEO, accessibility, and locale-aware routing across large content estates. Based in Chișinău, Moldova, he combines hands-on implementation with platform-level ownership—making reusable block systems and strict API contracts safer and faster to ship.
7 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Information Technology, Engineer's degree, Information Technology at Centrul de Excelență în Informatică și Tehnologii InformaționaleFellow, Fellow at Outtalent
English, Romanian, Russian
Github Skills (27)
seo10
wordpress10
plugin10
wordpress-plugin10
metadata9
meta-tags9
yoast9
gutenberg9
schema-org9
opengraph9
structured-data9
xml-sitemap9
php8
feed8
instagram7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
wpzoom/recipe-card-blocks-by-wpzoom
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
Beautiful Recipe Plugin for Food Bloggers with Schema Markup (JSON-LD) for the new WordPress editor (Gutenberg)
Contributions:10 releases, 21 PRs, 132 pushes in 2 years 1 month
gutenberg-editormarkuprecipe-pluginschema-markuprecipe
wpzoom/Recipe-Card-Blocks-by-WPZOOM
Aug 2018 - Nov 2021
Contributions:400 commits, 6 pushes in 3 years 3 months
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