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I've been professionally working with computers for twenty years, both design and code. Written C, Objective-C, Swift, JavaScript, Python, now Rust.

Founded a startup and had a successful exit. Built a tuner app that hit top 10 in the music category (2012), beating competitors on accuracy and responsiveness.

Polyglot: Portuguese, Romanian, English, Spanish.

What drives me: solving problems, shipping tools, learning how to do both better.

Core Competencies

Frontend & Application Development

Native apps, React, Next.js, Three.js, WebGL

Systems & Architecture

Swift, Rust, C, Python, Compiler design

Experience

Co-Founder

Kinoto · Porto · 2023 – Present

Founder & Writer

Swiftcraft.io · 2019 – Present

Senior Frontend Engineer

Berlin, London, Hamburg · 2015 – 2023

Application Developer

Cluj, Romania · 2010 – 2015

Education

Babeș-Bolyai University

Computer Science · Philosophy · Cluj, Romania

Awards

Google Android Developer Challenge 2

Trip Journal · Grand Prize · 2009

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Fiction

Les Misérables (Victor Hugo)

This book is meaningful at so many levels that it worths a reading every decade for a different perspective.

Science

The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Richard Feynman)

A fascinating read on how the world really works—as much as we can figure it out, anyway.

Music

Hard to choose.

I'll pick two composers from the same era: Debussy and Satie. They've been faithful companions through countless hours of work.

Games

Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)

A masterpiece with a deeply haunting soundtrack. The flawed human at its center—the fool, the joker, the loser. No redemption arc, no greater purpose, no hero in the way we're accustomed to heroes. And yet, the greatest hero.

Philosophy

Friedrich Nietzsche

The guy whose name I could never spell. He looked at the world and wrote what he truly saw—with great comprehension and without filter. A pillar of intellectual honesty.