Hi, I’m bumbu

I’m an Engineer with a focus on Web technologies (Front-End).

bumbu (pronounced as /boomboo/) has a lot of meanings in different languages, some of them are:

• Romanian - button
• Afrikaans - spice flour
• Hindi - bamboo
• Icelandic - belly
• Indonesian - spicy
• Javaneese - seasoning
• Latvian - bomb
• Malay - seasoning
• Sundanese - seasoning
• Tamil - pump
• Urdu - bamboo

I am

• I’m a front-end software engineer at Facebook
• I was a web developer at Trainline
• I was a web developer at Potato
• I was a lead front-end developer at Kuende
• I was a freelancer
• I was a student and a lecturer assistant at Technical University of Moldova

I do

• Building web applications mostly in JavaScript/TypeScript (back-end and front-end)
• Composing components/modules in Backbone/Marionette/Angular/React/Redux (or any other tool that gets the job done)
• Streamlining tasks using Grunt/Gulp/Webpack/NPM/bash
• Testing with Intern.js/Chai/Mocha/Jest/Jasmine

I did

Here is a bunch of words from different categories that had some influence on my skillset and thinking:

• Windows, Ubuntu, OS X, CentOS, Android, iOS
• PHP, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, SQL, C/C++/C#, Java, ActionScript 3, Ruby, Python, Lisp, Prolog, bash
• Ajax, Flex, wxWidgets, MVC, RoR, Node.js, Less/SASS/Stylus, Grunt.js, Gulp.js, Cytoscape.js, D3, GIT, Shell, Backbone.js, Marionette.js, Require.js, React.js, Redux, MobX, Angular, Immutable.js, Webpack, Django, Djangae
• MySql, MSSQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQLite, MongoDB, Datastore
• Matlab, Enterprise Architect
• Sketch, Abobe Photoshop, Abobe Illustrator, Abobe InDesign

Spoken languages

• native - Romanian (Româna)
• native - Russian (Русский)
• fluent - English

School

2012-2014 - Technical University of Moldova - Computer Science Masters Degree