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George Drăgan

software engineer

I build backend systems and AI-assisted pipelines for small product teams. Nearly a decade of working up the stack, from data infrastructure to LLM workflows.

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2025 – now
patent analysis pipeline & structured reporting HEAD origin/main
Multi-step evaluation pipeline for patent novelty. Parallel claim processing, prior art ranking, and automated report generation.
+ LangGraph + OpenRouter + Pinecone - React - NextJS
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2024
AI learning assistant, backend coordination Webby nom.
Backend lead on ZOC.AI, an intelligent learning platform handling transcription, summarisation, and translation workflows.
+ FastAPI + AWS Step Functions + LangChain + AirFlow - PHP - Nextflow
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2023
legacy PHP → NestJS migration, first lead role
First time leading a team. Inherited a PHP codebase at a bioinformatics startup and kicked off a full rewrite to NestJS, founder cancelled the contract mid-way to take it in-house.
+ NestJS + PHP
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2022
NGS core APIs, stability & observability
API stabilisation, logging improvements, monitoring and alerting on a suite of async Python services.
+ asyncio + Datadog
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2020 – 21
explorer dashboard, frontend deep dive Webby Award
Two years on a journey-tracking platform for explorers. The most frontend-heavy stretch of my career, built the full stack from React UI to serverless backend.
+ React + NextJS + Elastic Search + AirFlow + AWS Lambda + AWS ECS - Scrapy - Docker Swarm
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2019
scraping infra for insurance fraud detection
Scraping system targeting major automotive platforms to surface fraudulent listings. Data monitoring and validation at scale.
+ Docker Swarm - Hadoop
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2018
distributed crawling, accommodation industry
Large-scale crawl infrastructure for client satisfaction analysis in hospitality. Reports and data pipelines on Hadoop.
+ Hadoop + Scrapy
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2017
initial commit
Statistics and political science background. Started with Python, JavaScript, SQL. No idea what I was getting into.
+ Python + JavaScript + SQL
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Prefer this over LinkedIn, messages here go directly to my inbox and get a faster reply. Not looking to move right now, but always up for a conversation.