# Gabriela Voicu

> Senior Software Engineer

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gabriela

I am a software engineer with nine years of professional experience. I have a proven record of writing clean and maintainable code, delivering on company objectives in a timely manner, and providing effective code reviews, high-quality communication, and mentorship to team members and direct reports. My expertise lies primarily in backend API development in Python and Ruby. I am also experienced in frontend development and infrastructure management in AWS. Wherever I find myself in the stack, I always focus on delivering secure, performant solutions.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer & Team Lead @ Unabridged Software
Jan 2023 – Present | Chicago IL
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Engineer.

### Owner and Senior Software Engineer @ Gabriela Voicu Development Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 | Chicago IL
I work with small startups in a staff augmentation position. Alongside the team, I design and implement new features, test them thoroughly, find and fix bugs, research new technology, performe code reviews, advise on privacy and security best practices.

### Software Engineer @ Ribbon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Chicago IL
Full Stack Engineer: Django with GraphQL and React.

- Designed and implemented REST API integration with third party partner, endpoints and data models to support brokerage agents easily sign up with Ribbon
- Managed communication with developers on the brokerage side
- Built new sign up flows for all customer types

### Software Engineer @ Percent Pledge
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chicago IL
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Engineer.

- Created monthly subscription automated billing service to replace manual billing process. Used Stripe and Plaid integration
- Increased test coverage from 0% to over 50%
- Updated data models to support multiple types of giving (monthly vs one time)
- Mentored junior engineer in data modeling, clean code, software and security best practices via code reviews and implementation discussions
- Implemented SOC2 compliance requirements

### Software Engineer @ Eight Bit Studios
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Chicago IL
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Engineer.

### Software Engineer @ Kin Insurance
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Chicago IL
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Engineer.

- Built new features for and maintained the Policy Administration System
- Built new features for and maintained the underwriting and rating engine
- Automated manual tasks in the Policy Administration System to improve sales rep efficiency
- Integrated payment processor with XML API
- Integrated sales leads provider

### Software Engineer @ Gumroad
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Chicago IL
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Engineer.

- Built new features for and maintained an 8 years old Ruby on Rails monolithic e-commerce application

### Software Engineer @ Select Rehabilitation
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Chicago IL
Full Stack Ruby on Rails Engineer.

- Worked on the internal employee management application, a micro-services architecture using Ruby on Rails applications

### Software Engineer @ Clearcover
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Chicago IL
Ruby on Rails API Engineer.

- Built the Claims API that allowed customers to submit photos and loss information via the mobile app
- Built the customer account management API that gave customers information about their policy, upcoming payments and more in the mobile app
- Generated PDF of insurance card based on policy information
- Integrated with S3, Zendesk & Customer.io
- Integrated with third party insurance API that used older, no longer recommended protocols

### Software Engineer @ NextTier Education
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Chicago IL
Back-End Engineer: Django and DevOps.

- Implemented the authorization strategy for the app when we moved to an enterprise model
- Created new API features for Django app: architected and implemented them
- Fixed functionality and refactored code of server that sends out deadline reminders for users, based on their college application tasks deadlines
- Implemented Elasticsearch to improve document retrieval performance
- Wrote ETL scripts in Python
- Deployed API servers to AWS EC2 instances
- Implemented Clever SSO
- Twilio integration
- Reviewed PRs of other developers on the team, gave feedback on how to make code DRYer, more performant, more resilient
- Wrote documentation for new features and updated documentation of existing features
- Tested new features (unit tests, acceptance tests)
- Refactored the notifications sending classes
- Upgraded app from Django 1.6 to Django 1.9
- Debugging

### Software Development Instructor @ BLUE1647 w/ DePaul University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Chicago IL
Taught this class two times. The first time the students were entirely from BLUE1647, the second time it was a partnership with the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center at DePaul University.

- Led a part-time evening class of 20 students and 3 TAs
- Rewrote the curriculum to better fit the students' needs
- Explained concepts of web development, HTML, CSS, git, GitHub, JavaScript, the Ionic framework and more to a beginner audience
- Customized class work to students based on skill level and areas of weakness to target fast growth
- Pair programed with the students
- Debugged code with the students
- Gave feedback on students' code to make it DRYer, more performant, more resilient
- Coached the TAs on how to best support the students


## Education
### Software Development in Computer Programming
Dev Bootcamp
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gabivoicu

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Last updated: 2026-03-22