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20 years old. Shipping products since 15. Orbiting AI, robotics, and frontier engineering.

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20 years old.
From Oradea.

Started freelancing at 14, writing automation scripts and building mobile apps for paying clients. By 15, I was shipping my own products. Built two App Store apps with thousands of users and top ratings before finishing high school.

Now studying Electronics, Telecommunications and IT at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, working as a Software Researcher at dotLumen, building AI-powered assistive glasses for the visually impaired.

Deep Tech & Assistive AI
Computer Vision & Perception
Robotics & Embedded
MCP, LLMs & AI Tooling
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Oradea, Romania
// journey

The trajectory.

201900 / 092025
  1. 2019age 14

    First Freelance Clients

    Started writing automation scripts and building mobile apps for paying clients at fourteen.

  2. 2020age 15

    First Personal Project Shipped

    Began building and shipping personal products alongside freelance work.

  3. 2020age 15

    FIRST Tech Challenge, Modus Vivendi

    Joined the robotics team. Led technical and software for four straight years.

  4. 2021age 16

    ESA Astro Pi, Highly Commended

    Algorithms identifying landmarks in ISS imagery and detecting pollution patterns.

  5. 2022age 17

    Roomify Launched

    LiDAR + ARKit room scanning app. 2,500 MAU, 4.6★ across 400+ ratings.

  6. 2023age 18

    FormFusion Launched

    AI fitness coach with real-time on-device pose analysis. 4.8★, 1,400 MAU.

  7. 2023age 18

    ESA Astro Pi, Highly Commended (2nd)

    CNN trained on 1,000+ ISS images to classify atmospheric gravity waves.

  8. 2024age 19

    Solis Racing Team

    Race Engineer building strategy software for the 3,000 km World Solar Challenge.

  9. 2025age 20now

    dotLumen

    Software Researcher building perception for AI-powered assistive glasses.

// experience

Where I
work.

// projects

Things I've
built & shipped.

Started freelancing at 14 building apps for clients. A mix of personal products and select client work.

// competitions & teams

Beyond the
keyboard.

// writing

Notes from
the build.

Things I've been thinking about, mostly on LinkedIn.

LinkedIn·Apr 2026

Education doesn’t need more content. It needs more reality.

Spoke at the Skills (R)Evolution Conference in Cluj-Napoca about Solis UTCN. Why building real things teaches what classrooms can’t.

LinkedIn·Sep 2025

Just returned from the Bridgestone World Solar Challenge.

3,000 km across the Australian Outback in a solar car, one of the toughest endurance races in the world. Notes from the desert.

// stack
SwSwift
SUSwiftUI
KtKotlin
RNReact Native
TSTypeScript
PyPython
C+C++
ROROS/ROS2
MLCoreML
ARARKit
LiLiDAR
SwSwift
SUSwiftUI
KtKotlin
RNReact Native
TSTypeScript
PyPython
C+C++
ROROS/ROS2
MLCoreML
ARARKit
LiLiDAR
SwSwift
SUSwiftUI
KtKotlin
RNReact Native
TSTypeScript
PyPython
C+C++
ROROS/ROS2
MLCoreML
ARARKit
LiLiDAR
SwSwift
SUSwiftUI
KtKotlin
RNReact Native
TSTypeScript
PyPython
C+C++
ROROS/ROS2
MLCoreML
ARARKit
LiLiDAR
PTPyTorch
TFTensorFlow
CVComputer Vision
NxNext.js
GrGrafana
CBCAN Bus
ECEmbedded C
DMDiffusion Models
PEPose Estimation
GtGit
PTPyTorch
TFTensorFlow
CVComputer Vision
NxNext.js
GrGrafana
CBCAN Bus
ECEmbedded C
DMDiffusion Models
PEPose Estimation
GtGit
PTPyTorch
TFTensorFlow
CVComputer Vision
NxNext.js
GrGrafana
CBCAN Bus
ECEmbedded C
DMDiffusion Models
PEPose Estimation
GtGit
PTPyTorch
TFTensorFlow
CVComputer Vision
NxNext.js
GrGrafana
CBCAN Bus
ECEmbedded C
DMDiffusion Models
PEPose Estimation
GtGit