Viorel Craescu
Senior Developer at Zenitech
Iași, Romania
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Top SchoolViorel Craescu is a Senior Developer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining high-traffic web and microservice architectures across e-commerce, retail, and SaaS domains. He combines pragmatic full‑stack engineering—spanning Golang gRPC/REST services, PHP/Symfony/Sylius work, and serverless/Terraform infrastructure—with hands-on product thinking that helped grow an e-commerce platform to six-figure monthly sales. At Zenitech he architects solutions, mentors teams, and leads code reviews while continuing to maintain legacy PHP microservices and integrate payment providers. An active open-source contributor, Viorel has improved Go language support in the popular nvim-treesitter project and fixed core issues in the Sylius eCommerce framework. He favors simplicity and effectiveness in tool choice, balancing speed and quality to solve complex business problems and build long-term client relationships. Based in Iași, Romania, he brings a steady blend of technical depth and pragmatic delivery to every project.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
No degree yet, Computer Science, No degree yet, Computer Science at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din IașiComputer Science High School"Grigore Moisil", Iasi
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Github Skills (16)
neovim10
doctrine10
php10
tree-sitter10
go10
code-folding10
syntax-highlighting10
symfony-bundle10
ecommerce10
symfony10
symfony-ux10
api8
rest-api8
android6
android-layout6
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
Sylius/Sylius
May 2016 - Sep 2017
Open Source eCommerce Framework on Symfony
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Viorel primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Sylius eCommerce framework. Their work included setting data to objects, correcting taxon root checks within the product repository, and resolving issues with grid sorters. Additionally, the user updated documentation related to creating plugins. These changes indicate involvement in core functionality and maintaining the framework's stability.
apisyliusecommercephpheadless-ecommerce
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 5 commits, 4 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Viorel primarily contributed to the project by modifying Tree-sitter query files, specifically targeting the Go language. Their work involved adding and modifying highlights and folds for Go code, improving the syntax highlighting and code folding features. They added highlights for method specifications, type definitions, and field declarations while removing highlighting for constants. Furthermore, the user incorporated support for Go 1.18's "any" type, expanding the language coverage.
nvim-treesitterluatreesittertree-sittervim
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