Diana-Alina Olaru-Nică
Employment
Scrum Master – Consultant
Pathwwway
September 2018 - Present
- Handling 2 teams – Sprint team (Scrum) and Critical team (Kanban) – that build and maintain online casinos platforms and infrastructure.
Scrum Master / Agile Coach
Ascendia SA
July 2018 - September 2018
- Converting a team of Waterfall believers to the magic of Agile while building an e-textbook creator's app.
Frontend Developer
Scrum Master
Scrum Master
DocProcess SRL
January 2017 - July 2018
https://doc-process.com
https://dx.docxchange.ro
- Developing the 3rd version of DocXchange portal using React, MaterialUI, Lodash, Redux, Redux Saga, styling with Sass.
- Acting Scrum Master when the official one isn't present. This means holding the daily standup, the bi-monthly spring planning and taking part in most of the meetings with the Product Owner. I take interest in the progress of the team: if someone is stuck, I try to find a viable solution, I keep them motivated and help them keep the pace.
Frontend Developer
OneHourTranslation Ltd
February 2015 - September 2016
https://onehourtranslation.com
- Maintaining current and building new pages using Backbone.js, Require.js, Handlebars.js and Twig.
QA Team Leader
OneHourTranslation Ltd
August 2014 - February 2015
https://onehourtranslation.com
- In charge of task repartition and rotation, creating test cases, understanding the team's needs and handling any conflicts that would appear.
QA Analyst
OneHourTranslation Ltd
February 2014 - February 2015
https://onehourtranslation.com
- Helping the development team to improve the system, which is user friendly, simple enough on the outside so our customers would have a pleasant experience, but complex enough on the inside to fulfill all their needs. Resolving frontend and backend issues and redesigning existent pages is also part of my job.
Volunteer Work
Security Espresso (
https://securityespresso.org/
)
December 2016 - Present
- Small team organising a monthly meetup.
Volunteer Veterinary Nurse
MariVet Bucharest
April 2016 - November 2016
- Preparing tools and medicine
- Patient filing
- Surgery preparation (tools, disinfection, medication), patient comforting
- Explaining treatments/surgeries to patient owners
- Helped the team with logistics of the event. Starting 2015, I also joined Hacking Village/IoT Village and it has been my main "station" at DefCamp since.
- I kept in touch with the participating teams from Defcamp Capture the Flag competiton, answering to their technical questions.
CCSIR - Cyber Security Research Center from Romania
- 2013 - I contacted and kept in touch with media partners for the Hacking and Information Security conference Defcamp.
University
Bucharest, Romania
University of Bucharest
Oct 2012 - June 2016
Bachelors in Computer Science
Technical Experience
OneHourTranslation (OneHourTranslation.com)
International Coach Federation Romania (http://www.coachfederation.ro/)
Towards Coaching Mastery (http://towardscoachingmastery.com/)
VideoRobo (http://videorobo.thundertv.com)
Nebul4 (https://github.com/tvararu/NEBUL4)
- Multiplayer spaceship game developed by me and three other colleagues as the final project for Software Development Methods class, using Meteor framework, THREEjs, MongoDB, Laika testing framework and PhantomJS for testing. Currently unusable due to lack of maintenance.
ABContabilitate (http://abcontabilitate.ro/)
- Wordpress website for a Romanian accounting company, built on a blank bootstrap WP theme.
Buzzle (http://buzzle.ro/)
- Courses aggregator built on Wordpress, using Woocommerce for payments.
Languages, Technologies and Certifications
Certifications:
- Scrum Master Accredited Certification™ (see certificate, verify certificate – ID: 79169357691425)
Languages:
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP.
- Basic knowledge of Node.js, C, C++, Java.
Frameworks and Libraries:
- Handlebars.js, Backbone.js, jQuery, Bootstrap, Require.js, React, Sass
- Basic knowledge of AngularJS, Redux.
Tools and Services:
- Unix user (Ubuntu, OSX), git, Figma, PuTTY, Vagrant, Adobe Photoshop, Wordpress, Jira power user, zsh, bash, vim, GIMP
Hobbies and Interests
Organising real-life events Ingress-related. (small: 8-50 people; big: +500 people). Example 1, example 2, example 3, example 4.
I try to keep up with the latest technology trends by lurking Hacker News and Sidebar.io daily and by attending local technology conferences. I also enjoy reading novels, dancing and working out.
Volunteer vet.
Travelling around Europe with my husband.