Electrical routing experiments
The experimental engine of my thesis: an IRLS solver, a multicommodity extension, exhaustive graph enumeration and an LP baseline, run on a university cluster.
Projects
15 projects, from research code and shipped work to ideas still on the bench.
Research & teaching
Automated HPC grading pipeline
Grades 100+ student implementations of a 2D heat-equation solver using MPI one-sided communication and hybrid MPI+OpenMP. It compiles, validates process meshes, benchmarks on the cluster, checks reported against measured speedup within a 7.5% tolerance, and writes a six-sheet Excel report.
Lorenz system pattern search
My BSc thesis. Simulates Lorenz attractor trajectories to search for inputs that produce specific chaotic behaviour, with tooling to visualise the results.
University coursework
Edge-AI frost protection for vineyards
An edge-first IoT design that predicts frost before it arrives and triggers sprinklers within their lead time. Training and inference stay at the edge; the cloud keeps only backups, a device registry and a dashboard. I chose single-writer ownership with idempotent retries over Raft consensus.
Distributed key-value storage
A storage service built on a binary search tree, written in C++ and deployed on Kubernetes both locally and on Google Kubernetes Engine.
Kafka image-processing pipeline
A streaming service that consumes plant-image data from Kafka, processes it and stores the results, deployed on GKE.
Side projects
RotiPI, a self-hosted home server
A Raspberry Pi 5 running my own web stack, including this site: nginx serving two websites, PostgreSQL, a Cloudflare Tunnel behind Zero Trust, and monitoring with Prometheus, Grafana, Node Exporter and cAdvisor.
Self-hosted MCP servers
Four tool servers on the Pi (filesystem, BibTeX library, GitHub, algorithms) that give AI assistants access to my research setup, secured with Cloudflare Access service tokens.
Hand-written algorithms library
A C++ library of parallel, distributed, graph, flow and online algorithms, each written by hand with tests and visualisations. I started it to keep real ownership of my code in an AI-heavy workflow. Done: parallel prefix sums (Hillis-Steele). Next: parallel merge sort.
freeCodeCamp algorithm guides
Open-source articles from 2021 explaining Lee’s algorithm (BFS shortest paths on a grid) and flood fill, from intuition to working code.
Freelance & ventures
Healthy Aging Labs website
A custom WordPress theme for a US wellness company, built with co-developer Andrei Pop. It ships with a full design system (palette, type pairing, 8px grid, WCAG 2.2 AA guidance) and editable fields so the owner runs the site without touching code.
Offline-first learning platform In architecture
A cross-platform learning platform for vocational training, planned under the software company I am co-founding in Romania. Courses, quizzes and an in-browser code runner, all usable offline with sync.
On the bench
Automatic window opener
A wireless button that drives a small motor to unlatch, open, close and relatch the high transom windows in my apartment. My first hardware project.
Game engine
Exploring what it takes to write a small game engine from scratch.
Robotics
A second Raspberry Pi 5, bought for electronics experiments, with a robot as the long-term goal.