Senior Software Engineer · Founder of CodingShadows
I build mobile products end to end, from native apps to the Go services and Kubernetes platform behind them: 50+ apps launched, used by more than 500,000 people.
50+
Apps launched
App Store & Play Store
500K+
Users
across my applications
300+
Training hours
universities & companies
70M+
Views
on social platforms
As seen on
Featured project
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.
Featured on PRO TV and Euronews Romania
300K+
installs
4.8
store rating
3×
national TV features
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Apps and web products used by more than 500,000 people, from exam prep to a logbook for professional drivers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Open source and client work
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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.
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Latest appearance
PRO TV, 2026
I presented Geografie BAC, the web platform and app students use to prepare for the Romanian geography baccalaureate. They practise directly on maps, exactly like in the exam, work through quizzes, simulate the full paper with automatic grading, and compete against each other in real time. Progress syncs between web and mobile, and all of it is free. Around 1,100 students used it ahead of the 2026 exam, just weeks after launch.
Read the PRO TV story
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A brutally honest walkthrough of what actually happens when you iterate a mobile app in production — features that earned their place, ones that died with a 2-star review, and the feedback patterns that changed the product's direction entirely.
The challenges of scaling a Flutter app past 100,000 monthly active users alone — practical strategies for cost management and performance when you're on your own.
Indie app economics aren't taught in courses — you learn them from cloud bills and failed campaigns. A decade of experience distilled: real infrastructure costs, turning free users into assets, and why 'cheap' decisions end up the most expensive.
05
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
2025
Romanian National AI Olympiad
Infrastructure & DevOps — Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, GitHub Actions
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
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Conference paper · March 2025 · 19th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Conference paper · March 2025 · 19th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
Conference paper · October 2022 · IEEE SmartBlock4Health
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