Andrei Ujica

• • Managed to cover 1.5 years of coursework in a single year, while consistently ranking in the top 10% of my class.
• • Selected as one of only 20 out of 200 students for teaching assistant positions in Cyber Security and Data Science.
• • Fast-tracked to graduate in 2024 by transfer of European Credits (ECs)

• • Entry credentials: Admission Exam Score: 9.83/10 (top 2%).
• • Excelled in university-affiliated extracurriculars, completing Google Labs' web development program.

• • Ranked most competitive high-school in Romania (by required entrance grade)
• • Score in the Romanian Baccalaureate: Mathematics 9.90, Physics 9.75, Romanian Language and Literature 9.60 (Top 2%)

• • Realized an exceptional 89% reduction in database queries (from 1800 to 200) spanning 20 endpoints, effectively resolving N+1 query issues through Django's lazy querysets and related table prefetching methods.
• • Effectively led a team of 5 offshore engineers by orchestrating sprint ticket distribution, providing hands-on support, and conducting rigorous code reviews.
• • Automated 14% of status transitions in a complex finite state machine using cron jobs and Django signals, resulting in a remarkable 90% reduction in data inconsistency support tickets.
• • Took charge of migrating 30 out of 100 total platform components from SCSS to Tailwind CSS within two sprints, greatly enhancing frontend performance and aesthetics

• • Achieved a 90% reduction in API response times by integrating Django's cached property decorator across all models, decreasing load times from 2 minutes to 10 seconds.
• • Authored Selenium-based integration tests for 50+ user stories and integrated them into our CI/CD GitLab pipeline, resulting in a 50% reduction in manual test cases for merge requests.
• • Enhanced security and streamlined field-level access controls in our Django library by transitioning permission checks to the backend, drawing inspiration from UNIX-like permissions systems.

• • Accomplished a 10-minute reduction in internal development times for each modification by creating a Flask-based CRUD application tailored for updating organizational charts.
• • Enhanced insights and monitoring for over 100 employees through the development of advanced visualizations in our custom fork of Apache Superset for the business intelligence dashboard.

Learned scaling system infrastructure on the cloud, unit testing and user acceptance testing, IAM policies and permissions.

Built a dashboard to explore client's telemetry data, worked on a software development proposal and performed log inspection.

This programme was solely focused on security. I learned cryptography basics and password cracking.