George Ciachir-Arhire

Further develop and improve the Conrad Electronic search engine using Java, Python, Elasticsearch, and Machine Learning.

The client, a large European bank, was wasting a lot of money and time on the risk analysis processes, due to lacking a digitized solution. Saved more than 900 working days per year, the equivalent of 2.5 persons’ full work year, by leading the implementation of a new feature and eliminating inter-departmental communication overhead and manual data gathering. Skills: Domain-Driven Design (DDD) · Microservices · Kubernetes · Docker · ActiveMQ · Spring Boot · Hazelcast · MongoDB · Angular

The client, a large European bank, was wasting big money on support and maintenance operations, due to lacking an appropriate solution for managing hundreds of business flows. Eliminated costs of over €100k and increased adoption speed of new business flows by more than 40% by designing a new architectural solution fully integrated within the client’s existing Azure ecosystem. Skills: Microservices · Software Solution Architecture · Microsoft Azure · Spring Boot · Communication · Camunda BPM · Angular

The client, a Belgian state institution, was losing revenue and was dealing with a bad user experience after using a blocking solution for data migration. Ensured 100% application security and an initial revenue of over €100k by implementing the OpenID Connect protocol between the UI and the backend. Improved data migration time by more than 80% by implementing a non-blocking process based on RxJava. Skills: TypeScript · Oauth2 · OpenID Connect (OIDC) · Keycloak · Spring Security · Spring Boot · Angular

The client, a Belgian software solutions provider, was aiming to capitalize on the business potential of the interim market and needed an HR application that could be quickly monetized as a SaaS solution. Improved time to market by more than 2 months and achieved an initial 3 months of revenue of over €150k, by designing application security incorporating the Auth0 Identity and Access Management platform. Skills: Domain-Driven Design (DDD) · Docker · Oauth2 · Spring Security · Spring Boot · Angular

The client, one of the largest pharma companies in the world, was wasting a great deal of time and a significant amount of revenue, while being at risk of becoming a secondary provider for its offshore subsidiaries, due to a monolith application with poor overall user experience. Improved development time by 30% for new features, by migrating parts of the initial JSP user interface to AngularJS, thus achieving better decoupling and less development overhead. Skills: Java · JSP · JavaScript · AngularJS

The client, one of the largest payment processors in the UK, was losing money due to lacking a risk management tool for identifying potentially fraudulent transactions. Achieved 3 award wins, the most prestigious one being the Security Innovation of the Year at the 2019 National Technology Awards, by implementing the innovative Link analysis feature that facilitates the detection of card transactions’ fraudulent trends and patterns. Skills: Netflix Zuul, Spring Boot, AngularJS, Elasticsearch

The Bank's Regional Group was losing revenue and trailing in the Bank's internal rankings due to missing an appropriate strategy for increasing productivity in the Corporate segment. Increased the Group's Corporate KPIs in internal rankings by 20% by launching several regional marketing campaigns and by designing and implementing a monitoring tool that tracked employees’ individual performance.

The Bank's Regional Group was losing revenue and trailing in the Bank's internal rankings due to missing an appropriate strategy for increasing productivity in the Retail segment. Ranked 1st in the 2014 and 2015 national-level competitions and the national-level rankings for the Payroll segment by launching several sales campaigns and by implementing a monitoring tool that tracked employees’ performance. Increased the Retail portfolio by 8% by successfully negotiating several important contracts.

One of the Regional Group’s Agencies was losing big money and was risking closure due to low performance and by not capitalizing on the area’s business potential Achieved a 20% increase in the Agency's revenue stream and prevented the Agency's closure by attracting new clients from the local small businesses pool.

The Regional Group’s main branch was losing revenue in the retail segment due to missing out on the potential of the existing payroll conventions. Achieved a 1% increase in the branch's revenue by focusing on the employees of the branch’s corporate clients.