Experience
I’m currently working for myself building smart devices. For the full work history and detailed impact bullets, download my resume PDF.
Independent — Smart Devices
2025 — Present
Hardware + firmware + software • shipped end‑to‑end.
Swisscom — Senior Software Engineer / Tech Lead
2022 — 2024
Defects −90% • Release cycles −50% • Latency −75%.
KPN — Senior Software Engineer
2017 — 2022
KPN.com 2.0 • ~1M daily requests • AWS migration.
Adyen — Android Expert Engineer
2014 — 2017
POS Android app & SDK • Checkout latency −40%.
ING Bank — Lead Software Engineer
2011 — 2014
Risk analytics • Reports 60s → 8s • OAuth2 SSO.
Education
B.A. in Computer Science — Faculty of Cybernetics, Statistics and Economic Informatics (Bucharest, Romania), 2007
Projects
YouTube channel — ProgrammingLifeIO
Weekly tutorials • 1k subscribers • Flagship video 30k views
- Technical channel where I post weekly free Software Development courses and tutorials
Quantum CLI
Developer swiss army knife • Offline local LLM chat
- Go-based CLI that enables secure local LLM chat and a growing set of developer tools
- Integrates Ollama + LangChain with a focus on offline availability and speed
Apress / Springer Link courses
iPad Pro + Raspberry Pi 4 series