Senior Software EngineerFounder of CodingShadows
I build products people use, from the app to the servers behind it.
Mobile apps, AI features and the Go and Kubernetes platform behind them: 50+ apps launched, used by more than 500,000 people.
What I build
One owner from the first idea to the store listing, and through the years of releases after it. The other four are its parts.
Native Android and iOS from one Kotlin codebase, or Flutter when it fits the product.
Assistants, grading and agent tooling that run in production, alongside PhD research on the reliability of autonomous coding agents.
Fast, bilingual, search-ready sites, and web apps that share one account with the phone.
A Kubernetes platform I run myself, with CI/CD and monitoring, built to keep costs sane as usage grows.
Hiring for a project? The studio takes it from here.CodingShadows
Photograph the ingredient list on a package and get a health score with additive and allergen warnings in seconds; a barcode works too. Geneva, the AI nutritionist, answers follow-up questions. Six languages, now also in the US.
300K+
installs
4.8
store rating
3×
national TV features
Featured on PRO TV and Euronews Romania
One account for Bacalaureat prep across 13 subjects: lessons, quizzes, flashcards and timed simulations graded against the official marking scheme, with an AI tutor and a readiness score. No ads.
Geography Bacalaureat prep on the map: click-on-the-map exercises, official past papers with AI grading of open answers, even from a photo of handwriting, and real-time duels.
Essays, character analyses and literary movements for the Romanian Baccalaureate, now native on Android and iOS and on the web. The family includes Quizuri BAC Română, free with a weekly national contest, and Comentarii BAC Audio.
A work logbook for professional bus and transport drivers: shifts, hours, routes, km and fuel, with monthly PDF and Excel reports to check against the official timesheet.
Other studio products, an open-source tool and client work.
Evaluarea Națională prep in Romanian and maths: lessons, exam-format simulations graded against the marking scheme and an admission-average prediction. Its sister site, medieadmitere.ro, is a free admission calculator.
Pixel-art attendance for classrooms: students join from a shared link and their avatars walk into the room, while the teacher grades attendance from a phone.
A free macOS menu-bar app that runs a local MCP server, so AI assistants can work with Apple Notes, Reminders and Calendar.
Personal website for the investigative journalist, part of PRO TV's "România, te iubesc!" team.
Speaking and media
DevTalks · Romania, 2026
DevTalks · Mobile Stage, 2025
DevCon · Web & Mobile Con, 2025
Latest appearance
Geografie BAC at ILikeIT
PRO TV, 2026
Read the PRO TV story
ONIA at ILikeIT (Monday)
PRO TV, 2026
ONIA at ILikeIT (Sunday)
PRO TV, 2026
BioBrief at Doctor de Bine
PRO TV, 2025
BioBrief at ILikeIT
PRO TV, 2024
BioBrief at Euronews
Euronews Romania, 2024
Lifeline at ILikeIT
PRO TV, 2022
Drivers Data at ILikeIT
PRO TV, 2019
Senior Engineer (Contractor)
Microservices and libraries with Kotlin and Spring Boot.
Software Engineer
Product development with Kotlin and React.
Senior Software Engineer
Development and maintenance of the Tazz platform with Java Spring Boot and Angular.
Trainer
Training and mentoring students in cloud technologies and software development.
Teaching Assistant
Teaching assistant for programming and software engineering courses.
Founder
A studio shipping its own apps, including the exam-prep suite, a food scanner and a logbook for professional drivers, built with Kotlin Multiplatform, Go and Kubernetes.
Co-founder
Co-founded the olympiad and built the platform behind it: infrastructure and DevOps on Kubernetes, RabbitMQ and GitHub Actions.
2026 – present
PhD
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
Thesis: Reliability, Observability and Harness Engineering for Autonomous Software Engineering Agents
2024 – 2026
MSc Software Engineering
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
2020 – 2024
BSc Computer Engineering
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest
2016 – 2020
Computer Science
Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science
2021 – 2025
Hardcore Entrepreneur
Organizer, trainer and jury
2021 – 2022
InfoEducatie Olympiad
Jury member and mentor
2022
1st place
Scientific Session, UPB
2021
2nd place
Scientific Session, UPB
2020
2nd place
National InfoEducatie
2020
3rd place
Online InfoEducatie
2019
Top 15%
National InfoEducatie
Have a project idea or want to collaborate? Drop me an email and let's discuss.
I usually respond within 24 hours
See what CodingShadows builds: apps, AI, web and infrastructure