
Co-founder at balaur.ro
Romania

Co-founder at balaur.ro
Romania
Interested in challenging projects which involve algorithm design and software development. The ideal job would allow me to use my problem-solving skills, my programming experience and my team-working abilities.
* Algorithms, scientific research
* OOP, API design, code architecture, design patterns
* C, C++, Python, PHP, C#, Java
* HTML, CSS, Javascript, DHTML, MySQL
(Computer Software industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Job search and trends engine.
(Computer Software industry)
2004 — Present (5 years )
infoarena helps students learn computer science and train for programming contests. It is a 4 years old community project supported by dozens of the very best romanian olympic students today. Most of the members in our team were awarded international or national awards at computer science contests.
We organize online programming contests, we write tutorials and articles about computer science. The website itself is an innovative piece of technology featuring an automated solution grader, wiki, social network, forum and blog.
infoarena has a long history of dedication and activity: 8000+ users, 60+ online contests, an impressive archive with 650+ automatically graded problems and content spanning over thousands of wiki pages.
infoarena received sponsorships from high profile companies such as Adobe, HOSTWAY, ORACLE, Microsoft and also from local companies and institutions like Polytechnic University of Bucharest, iRealSoft, IP Devel, Totalsoft, SOFTWIN.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
October 2008 — July 2009 (10 months)
Working on a distributed and highly scalable backend.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
July 2008 — September 2008 (3 months)
Worked on the Google Ad Manager team where I did experimental testing on some maximum flow algorithms and wrote a research paper about this and I also prototyped a feature for Google Ad Manager.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
July 2007 — September 2007 (3 months)
I worked at Microsoft for 12 weeks as an intern for a software developer position. I worked in the Visual Basic group, and together with two other interns we worked on a new VB product, yet to be launched. (Read more on the VB blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/2007/07/06/lumos-fireworks-in-seattle.aspx)
(Computer Software industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year )
I co-authored, togheter with my informatics teacher Dana Lica, 3 books for high-school students. Each book offers a wide variety of programming problems, from basic stuff to really hard contest problems, togheter with solutions. You can see the table on contents for each book on the publisher's website (in Romanian): http://www.ls-infomat.ro/Culegeri.html
Bachelor , Computer Science , 2006 — 2009
2002 — 2006
psychology, travelling, movies, marketing, personal development
infoarena.ro, campion.edu.ro, USACO, ACM
* 8th place at the Topcoder Collegiate Challenge 2007 (Florida, USA)
* ACM World Finalist in 2007 (Tokyo, Japan)
* Gold Medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2006 (Mexico)
* Silver Medal at the Central European Olympiad in Informatics 2006 (Croatia)
* Silver Medal at the International Olympiad in Informatics 2005 (Poland)
* Silver Medal at the Balkan Olympiad in Informatics 2004 (Bulgaria)
* 1st Place at the National Olympiad in Informatics 2003, 2005, 2006