About
Fullstack engineer in Bucharest.
I build web platforms, backends and iOS apps, and keep them running after launch.
Ten years across retail, banking, real estate and fiscal compliance. Top 3% on Toptal, Certified Ethical Hacker.
Projects
- cursuri.ici.ro
Paperless enrollment for accredited courses at ICI.
- wecarecompany.ro
Booking, medical records and invoicing for a vet clinic.
- ai-filter.aesthetic.me
Edit photos by describing the change. Built for GlowUp.
- nearbychat.app
Offline chat and games between nearby phones. My own app.
With client teams
Experience
- Independent
Building and running web platforms and apps for clients.
- Marks & Spencer
Product page and basket rebuild in one of the UK’s largest retail apps.
Details
- Core part of the product detail page rearchitecture; helped refactor the entire basket module in under two months.
- Accessible, polished UI (VoiceOver, Dynamic Type) and rendering performance work.
- GraphQL integration and asynchronous data flows, backed by unit and UI tests.
- Salt Bank
Mobile security for one of Romania’s first digital-native banks.
Details
- Runtime self-protection and jailbreak/root detection.
- Source code security reviews and MASVS-compliant penetration testing.
- Evaluated and selected the bank’s mobile security vendors.
- Toptal
Contracts with startups and enterprises in real estate, fintech, compliance and consumer apps.
Details
- Property Finder (MENA’s leading real-estate marketplace): principal engineer; shipped remotely configurable SSL pinning and performance work.
- fiskaltrust: adapted point-of-sale compliance software for the Spanish and Italian markets, including a receipt-printing engine and a move to new hardware security modules.
- Payments and marketplaces: Stripe and Plaid cashback flows for an eco-products marketplace, and payments plus Apple/Google sign-in for a subscription product.
- Mobile and back-end lead on an MVP built on AWS and PostgreSQL, from product concept to scheduled launch; more fintech MVPs as lead architect.
- ICI Bucharest
Research on national and EU-funded projects, from engineer to head of the cybersecurity team.
Details
- Architected a scalable, microservice-based system with a cryptography provider that validates the authenticity of sales data from Romania’s next-generation cash registers.
- Led security audits and introduced a vulnerability-analysis method that made the work about 50% faster.
- Built a digital identity wallet with biometric authentication and encryption.
- Co-authored a comparative study of AI-driven cybersecurity solutions.
- Mentored junior researchers; co-authored research on verifiable credentials.
Process
AI writes much of the code, under rules I set. Tests gate every change, I review every release, and I monitor and update what I ship.
Writing
- AI-driven solutions for cybersecurity: comparative analysis and ethical aspects
Romanian Journal of Information Technology and Automatic Control
- Shaping the educational landscape: the rise and potential of Verifiable Credentials in higher education
International Conference on Virtual Learning
- eDIS: Electronic Diploma Integrity Service
Romanian Cyber Security Journal
- Validarea rapoartelor electronice emise de casele fiscale de marcat: Aplicația ExportValidator
Research article
- ICI Learning: Platform Dedicated to Online Learning
Romanian Cyber Security Journal
Education
Master’s degree in Software Engineering, Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, University of Bucharest. Certified Ethical Hacker (EC-Council).
Contact
Bucharest, Romania