bio

• 1982 born
• 1990 befriended a Cobra, started to code in Basic
• 1996 kicked ass at robingo and got my first nickname
• 1997 my first PC. Borland Pascal. dial-up.
• 1998 C, HTML, Linux. Slackware 2.6.5.
• 2000 national informatics olympiad 3rd prize. algorithms ftw
• 2001 started computer science school
• 2003
  • learned PHP
  • started a tiny e-commerce business from my dorm.
  • started using Debian, deleted my win2k partition.
  • partnered up with Dragos at SNS.  entrepreneurship ftw
  • started to grow an engineering team
• 2004 
  • my interests shift to operating system/compiler/language design
  • I write my first Linux kernel module
  • IBM Linux Challenge winner, with my High Availability Linux Firewall
• 2005
  • started Perl. ditched PHP.
  • got into Agile. especially Extreme Programming.
  • third place, Computer Society International Design Competition, with the NOMAD Positioning System 
• 2006
  • moved to Catalyst and PostgreSQL
  • opened a remote office 
  • the Perl community: hundreds of hours on irc.perl.org learning unit tests, git, unicode, API design, functional programming, database modelling, versioning, migrations, design patterns, meta programming, maintaining libraries, contributing to open source
• 2007 
  • started going to the perl conferences . befriended my mentors.
  • started two startup products at SNS: deals site,  dropcam-like security
  • started going to therapy. changed my life
• 2008 started Sinapticode as a SNS spin-off.  shipped tons of awesome software. Basically mr Wolf for tech problems, big and small, most appearing impossible. 
• 2009 got married to Adriana
• 2010 
  • co-founded coolcoz, a fundraising platform. I didn’t commit enough and it eventually died 🙁
  • started working with Morgan
• 2011 
  • mentor at Seedcamp Prague
  • build tons of MVPs for tech startups
• 2012
  • became a father to Ana
  • quit smoking
• 2013 
  • merged Sinapticode into Adore Me, became Adore Me’s CTO
  • Adriana started to write about our travels so I became famous
  • Became a certified barista, trained by Origo
• 2014 
  • mentor at MVP Academy
  • mentor at Seedcamp Dublin
• 2015 
  • became a father to Ema
  • started working with a life coach
• 2016 
  • scaling engineering teams: scrum. less. spotify
  • started to read (a lot) again.  audible is not bad
• 2017 
  • mentor at MVP Academy again
  • how to make a bra: angular, microservices, docker, CI/CD, machine learning
  • people engagement, company culture, organisation design
  • non-violent communication, Harvard negotiation project, coaching
  • mindful meditation, habit building, neuropsychology, meaning and purpose.
• 2018
  • mentor at Made by Teens
  • Kubernetes & CNCF ftw
• 2019
  • Spoke at How To Web about OKRs and change management
  • Adore Me start a sustainability journey
  • Started Cloud Native Bucharest community
• 2020
  • Adriana shot pictures of WFH pandemic me
  • Andreea Rosca asked me questions
  • Became a change strategist, started coaching people
  • Mentor at StepFWD
  • Moved to Google Cloud
• 2021
  • Cristina Chipurici asked me questions
  • Launched the adoreme.tech concept
  • Personal Values Workshop
  • Mentor at Startup Spotlight
  • Mentor at StepFWD  again
  • Started painting
• 2022
  
  • Adore Me is a B Corp
  • VS buys Adore Me