Meet Oana Goge.
Software Engineer with 13+ years of professional programming experience and 7+ years specializing in backend development with ASP.NET Core, Node.js, and Azure. Designed and maintained enterprise healthcare platforms serving a range of clients from solo practices to WebMD with 99.9%+ uptime, integrating 35+ APIs, cloud services, and data stores across AI/ML, payments, communications, and media. Currently building IoT device management on Azure for a global animal-health company via Toptal. Across client and independent work, uses AI-augmented engineering day to day — including Claude Code, GitHub Copilot and Codex — to build features and automations, improve development workflows, and help engineering teams use AI tooling effectively.
Experience
- Build IoT device management on Azure IoT Hub and Service Bus across a platform of thousands of connected devices
- Ship features end to end across 5+ repositories in different languages — cloud backend, device software, and web frontend
- Apply AI-assisted engineering to test generation, large-scale refactors, and production-incident debugging in the client's approved GitHub Copilot environment, with disciplined human review of every change
- Recognized as the engineering team's go-to AI resource — regularly give internal demos and talks teaching engineers to use AI coding tools more effectively, and authored the team's internal AI best-practices guide
- Rebuilt and shipped GitHub Actions CI/CD release pipelines for the platform's backend services, including PR-time test execution and deployment-runner fixes
- Built an internal monitoring dashboard combining production alerts, pull requests, and Jira work; greenlit for development into a team-wide tool
- Led backend architecture for healthcare platform serving clients ranging from solo practices to WebMD
- Maintained 99.9%+ uptime over 6 years
- Integrated 35+ APIs, cloud services, and data stores across AI/ML, payments, communications, and media workflows
- Designed multi-system architecture managing 6TB+ of healthcare media in Azure Storage
- Implemented application-level AES encryption for selected sensitive fields in Cosmos DB as part of the platform's HIPAA security controls
- Orchestrated zero-downtime data migrations affecting 58k+ media assets
- Built and operated the backend for interactive, voice-enabled patient education, including content delivery, session management, and analytics
- Designed and iterated detailed Cosmos DB-backed analytics for interactive sessions
- Debugged complex integration issues across Pinecone-backed retrieval and its supporting API
- Owned and led architecture for the vast majority of a 400k+ line, multi-repository full-stack codebase
- Implemented CI/CD pipelines, Application Insights observability, unit tests, and Cypress end-to-end tests
- Contributed to mobile game achieving 5M+ downloads on Google Play
- Implemented Photon multiplayer networking and real-time synchronization across battles with up to 100 battlefield units
- Developed interactive educational platforms for enterprise clients including Siemens
- Created physics simulations, animated learning experiences, and 24+ educational minigames
- Built cross-platform web applications using HTML5 Canvas and custom physics engines
- Designed multiplayer architectures and real-time systems for gaming platforms
- Led development team of 4-5 developers including full-time staff and interns
- Managed educational game projects for Danish schools with hands-on mentoring
- Designed and implemented a custom multiplayer networking system for classroom-based games
- Implemented real-time market simulation, state synchronization, and reconnection logic for unstable school networks
- Developed Assistens, a GPS-enabled digital tour app released for Copenhagen's Assistens Cemetery
- Implemented real-time economic simulation with dynamic pricing responding to student actions
- Contributed to Skyline Skaters (20M+ downloads; #1 in 60+ countries) and Airheads Jump (1M+ downloads)
- Built custom level editors and other Unity editor tools to streamline content creation
- Implemented native mobile integrations for iOS and Android platforms
- Created custom plugins for advertising SDKs and third-party services
- Conducted comprehensive multi-device testing across diverse mobile hardware
- Ensured consistent performance and user experience optimization
Volunteering & Community Impact
- 275+ members managed through the custom membership portal
- Rebuilt the public website in Next.js — traffic grew from ~50 to a peak of ~1,500 monthly visits
- Secured and manage a Google Ad Grants account — $10k/month in free search advertising
- Built an AI-assisted budgeting tool that parses bank exports and auto-matches donors
- Multi-channel communication system integrating email newsletters and SMS notifications
- Role-based access control with row-level security for data isolation
- GDPR-compliant data management and privacy controls
Skills
Backend Technologies
ASP.NET Core · Node.js · Express · Azure Functions · ASP.NET MVC (Razor) · REST APIs · Entity Framework Core · SQL · CosmosDB · xUnit · Swagger/OpenAPI · JWT/OAuth
AI Technologies
Claude Code · Claude Agent SDK · GitHub Copilot · Codex · Cursor · MCP (Model Context Protocol) · Multi-agent orchestration · OpenAI API · Anthropic API · Gemini API · Groq · Ollama · Pinecone Vector Database
Cloud & DevOps
Azure Functions · Azure App Service · Azure Storage · Azure DevOps · Azure IoT Hub · Azure Service Bus · Azure Application Insights · Azure Entra ID · Azure App Configuration · Google Cloud Run · Google Cloud Storage · Google Cloud Build · Google Secret Manager · AWS Lambda · Amazon SES · Amazon S3 · AWS IAM · Amazon CloudWatch · Docker · Serverless Architecture · CI/CD · Git · GitHub Actions
Programming Languages
C# (Expert) · JavaScript (Advanced) · TypeScript (Advanced) · Python (Intermediate)
Databases & Services
MS SQL Server · Cosmos DB · SQLite · Azure Storage · Google Drive API · Google Sheets API · Supabase · PostgreSQL · Neon
System Integration
35+ APIs, cloud services, and data stores integrated · API orchestration · Multi-platform connectivity · Healthcare compliance integrations · Payment system integrations · Communication APIs · Video processing services
Full Stack Technologies
ASP.NET MVC · Next.js
Frontend Technologies
Angular · Vue · Tailwind CSS · HTML · CSS
Development Tools
VS Code · Visual Studio · Unity · Three.js · Postman · Cypress
Languages
English — Native-level
My strongest language — used daily since early childhood; it long ago overtook Romanian as the language I think and work in.
Romanian — Native
Mother tongue, born and raised in Romania.
Danish — Professional working proficiency
Danish citizen (naturalized 2023), living in Denmark since 2011. Comfortable holding technical discussions in Danish — stronger in writing than in speech.
Development Philosophy
“I love solving tough bugs and technical challenges, they're like puzzles I have to crack. Whether it's automating something repetitive or building tools that make life easier, I'm always looking for ways to make things better for people.”
My approach to development is all about curiosity, pragmatism, and empathy. I thrive on learning new things and turning that knowledge into practical, efficient solutions. In a team, I focus on building systems that empower others to do their best work, whether through clear architecture, useful tooling, or simply sharing what I've learned. Making things better, easier, and more robust is what drives me. And lately, debugging has leveled up. I used to debug code — which I love — but now I get to debug the machine itself: the closest thing to the robopsychologist job I dreamed about as a kid, straight out of Asimov. Poking at a "positronic brain" to work out why it's misbehaving is awesome, occasionally maddening, and exactly the puzzle I always wanted.