# Vlad Cojanu

> Software Engineer at Facebook

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/vlad

Up and coming Software Engineer with a work experience in all aspects of application development: mobile, backend and frontend. Passionate about building things, learning and expanding his horizons!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2020 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ Instagram
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Developer - Guest Engagement @ Toast, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Dublin, Ireland
• Developed a single paged application in ReactJS that allows restaurants to directly interact with guests
• Built two proof of concepts working closely developers and product to inform which guest-tool to integrate
• Contributed to the development of phone number signup for Toast's loyalty module
• Took ownership over integration testing infrastructure and replaced flaky tests with unit tests
• Trusted to co-ordinate hot-fixes for critical defects

### Software Developer - Discounts @ Toast, Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Boston, Massachusetts
• Removed layered-architecture violations by decoupling model and synchronization logic
• Participated in extracting discount logic into a library by applying domain driven design principles
• Built back-end job that validated discounts which increased visibility into production data
• Trusted to respond to customer support tickets and ensured builds passed CI

### iOS Developer @ Muqo
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Canada Area
Muqo is a music social network; users upload photos and videos with lyrics from their favorite tracks
•  Designed and developed a serverless architecture for data denormalization and token generation using Firebase Cloud Functions
• Learned fundamental NoSQL skills while building search and discovery features. 
• Integrated Apple Music and Spotify payback and catalog search
• Designed and developed authentication and post uploading flows

### iOS Developer @ UGO Mobile Solutions
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area
• Worked on the development of the TD Wallet app for iOS
• Integrated Mixpanel Analytics which increased user retention by 25%
• Developed a proof of concept app consumer app for MBNA
• Independently set up a Jenkins build server which allowed for continuous integration

### Application Developer @ NexJ Systems
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Canada Area
Contributed to NexJ's core financial CRM application
• Worked on opportunity approval feature that expanded NexJ’s B2B banking offerings
• Delivered client hot-fixes on tight deadlines and practiced test-driven development

### J2EE Developer @ RBC Capital Markets
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Developed reports in an internal web application for the prime brokerage business
• Trusted to gather requirements, write SQL queries and implement read/write reports


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020

### Ontario Secondary School Bilingual Diploma
École secondaire Étienne-Brûlé
Jan 2009 – Jan 2015


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/vlad
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vlad/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22