TransPerfectBackend Engineer (First Backend Hire, Romania HQ Launch Team)
Oct. 2019 - Apr. 2021Built a browser-based “Side-by-Side” OCR translation editor—upload PDFs, run OCR, and translate across three synchronized views (original PDF, extracted segments, web editor) with segment-to-region linking. - Designed the data model & state machines for OCR → segmentation → translation → handoff. - Implemented Redis (cache/pub-sub + session enforcement), RabbitMQ (audit trail), WebSockets groundwork. - Integrated ABBYY OCR (via SMB) and internal APIs; SQL↔Redis sync, retries, and error handling. - Authored system/state diagrams; partnered with PM/FE/QA/DevOps + central architect; shipped MVP to early users. Tech: .NET/C#, SQL, Redis, RabbitMQ, WebSockets, ABBYY OCR, REST.