Working on the digital transformation of the higher education process. I am involved most aspects of the software development lifecycle, from business analysis, user interviews, software architecture design, software development, quality assurance, security, devops, training and tech support.

Analysed, designed and implemented software solutions for the benefit of the University.

• Integrated the university's institutional account system with the eduGAIN interfederation service by configuring an instance of the Shibboleth IdP.
• Maintained and expanded the in-house university admission app, adding support for a customizable candidate classification system together with a custom DSL for configuring admission grade computation.

Analysed, designed and developed software solutions for the students and employees of the University.

• Led the implementation of a modern intranet using Microsoft Sharepoint.
• Refactored and extended the admissions app, written in Ruby on Rails.
• Designed and implemented a rooms and schedules management app using ASP.NET Core and React.

Worked on data analysis and machine learning projects related to malware detection.

• Implemented anomaly detection algorithm for network traffic.
• Implemented reinforcement learning agents in an OpenAI Gym-compatible environment.

Excellent grades at software engineering courses such as object-oriented programming and algorithms and data structures, and mathematical courses such as algebra and real analysis.

Graduated at the top of the intensive informatics class.

Programming Languages

• Git: Experience with Git-based workflows, maintaining repositories, reviewing code and handling merge conflicts
• Docker: created container images and deployed apps using Docker and docker-compose
• Kubernetes: set up an on-prem K8s cluster using Microk8s and deployed apps to it
• Linux: Bash scripting; virtual machines with libvirt and QEMU
• LaTeX: editing school documents and research papers
• Windows and Microsoft Office Suite: ECDL certificate

I used to be a regular contributor to Code for Romania's projects.

I was the Department Director for Fundraising at ASMI, our faculty's student association. I let the team which maintained contacts and negotiated with external sponsors from the private sector.

My role was to organize the activity and foster the growth of our department and its members.

I was a Design & PR volunteer at ASMI.

• Created digital content using tools such as Photoshop.
• Responsible for marketing the Smarthack 2019 hackathon.
• Helped with improving the association's website.

Held a class where I helped first year students prepare for their Formal Languages and Automata course.

Volunteered to hold a class where I helped first year students prepare for the Algebra exam. This helped me develop my communication and teaching skills.

Programmer in my high school's robotics team which participated in the First Tech Challenge national competition. The robot's code was written in Kotlin.

Our team was a finalist in each participating year. In our second year we won first place. I went together with the team to the global competition in Detroit.

Hackathons

• Smarthack 2022 — our team won the Innovation prize awarded by Autodesk for creating a low-code automation platform intended to be used in the public sector
• Sparktech Textract 2020 — our team was fifth place at this NLP hackathon
• Smarthack 2020
• HackITall 2019 — developed an intelligent shopping list app
• UiPath RPA Challenge 2019 — tried to automate PR & marketing departments

Competitive Programming Contests

• Google HashCode 2020 — our team was third place in the hub where we participated
• Informatics Olympiad — good results at city level
• C# Olympiad — second place on Bucharest

Foreign Languages

• Romanian is my native language.
• I've been learning English since kindergarten and I have a Cambridge FCE attesting C1 language level.
• I've been studying French on Duolingo for over two years, I'm around the B1 level.
• I've studied German in high school (B2 level).
• Everything else I've learned using Duolingo: Hungarian, Esperanto, Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian and Russian.

• I recently bought a beginner bass guitar kit from Ibanez and started playing some of that as well.
• I play acoustic guitar. I learned everything from free online lessons (thanks Justin and Marty).
• I can also play simple pieces on an electric piano.