Hi, my name is Catalin Luntraru.
I'm the founder of the open-source php framework EnjoyCoding, the creator of the mmorpg Degony and a skilled senior web programmer and web designer. I have a lot of experience with many object oriented frameworks like cake, codeigniter, symphony and also cms sites like wordpress, joomla, oscommerce, smf ...
My main skills are: PHP (OOP), MySQL, while my secondary skills are: Javascript (AJAX/Jquery), Flex/Flash/ActionScript, (X)HTML, CSS, SEO(google,dmoz), XML/RSS, SOAP/REST, Adobe Fireworks/Photoshop/Illustrator, Linux (Hosting,Amazon Cloud,Dedicated), Comet Servers (stomp, jabber), Subversion (SVN,CVS), Scrum (Agile), Paypal/Ecommerce. I speak fluent english.
The web 2.0 sites that I build are optimized for cross-browser support, speed, user friendliness, search engines and I give great importance to security and stability.
Experience
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Degony Mmorpg
- period: 2009 - present
- job position: everything has been done by me
- achievements: www.degony.com
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IMM Ltd
- period: 2008 - 2009
- job position: CTO
- achievements: developing www.tailcast.com
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Bootsnall
- period: 2006 - 2008
- job position: web programmer
- achievements: search engine optimization, maps, maintenance, cron jobs, rss feeds, blogs
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Elcadia
- period: 2005 - 2006
- job position: web programmer and project manager
- achievements: ecommerce, real estate, social, presentation sites
Portfolio - 5 most important sites - click here for the full list
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www.degony.com 2009
Degony.com is free browser based mmorpg currently in its pre-beta stages. The website and game was done by me which means: game concept and ideea, coding php and ajax, building and optimizing the database, coding the html and css, fireworks and photoshop layouts, setting up the servers, marketing and seo and a lot of other things. The concept art is done by a contracted artist.
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www.tailcast.com 2008
Tailcast.com is a social network site focused on art, music and writing. I'm using the YouTube API to manage the video uploads. I've built a custom audio player in flash AS3 and also a fast wysiwyg editor in jQuery to let people customize their articles. Eveything is optimized for speed and scalability.
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www.bootsnall.com/adventures 2006
The adventures site is a place where you can find many trips and tours. The feeds come from several providers and are procesed by a monthly cron and added to the database. A very complex system has been developed in order to sort and prioritize the data, to help with the maintenance and to return detailed statistics.
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blogs.bootsnall.com 2007
This project was based on many installs of wordpress for each blog. My job was to elimiate that completely and use wordpres-mu. Besides that, I had to integrate the old plugins and themes, import the previous blog data, expand the already built tag system and many other things.
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store.theoffside.com 2006
This site will help people choose their soccer gear, having the products data coming from several feeds. The feeds are processed by a monthly cron and will smartly figure out if certain products "resemble" with other products so they can be marked as duplicates. Also the urls will be placed in a shared space to help with the redirect process and product matching.
