Software Engineer at Betfair Romania Development
Software Engineer · React · TypeScript · GraphQL · AI-first
I build player-facing web products for some of the biggest betting brands in the UK and Ireland. In my spare time I build my own: a habit app called Pact, client websites and a home server I'm slightly too proud of.
❯plan "habits on the iPhone lock screen"
→read: HANDOFF.md, PLAN.md, streak.js
✓plan: a Netlify function draws a PNG per user
❯implement --with-tests
✓18 test suites passing
❯verify --against prod
→GET /wallpaper/<token>.png 200 image/png
✓live, ready for the app update
❯
01 / Work
Betfair Romania Development
part of Flutter Entertainment
May 2024 – PresentCluj-Napoca
I'm frontend-first, but I go wherever the bug is: GraphQL BFFs, Node.js services, the proxy config in between. These days I split my time between the casino websites, the in-game experience and a new platform shared by the web and native apps.
2026 – now
2025 – 2026
2024 – 2025
Jul 2023 – Apr 2024
Software Engineer Intern
Betfair Romania Development
Web and mobile features with React, React Native, Java and Spring Boot.
Mar – Jun 2023
Java Backend Developer
JPavo
Server-side Java apps, third-party integrations and performance work.
02 / AI workflow
I treat coding agents like new teammates. They're fast and they never get tired, but they need good onboarding and someone checking their work. I try to be both.
For every codebase I work in, I keep notes generated from the code itself: file maps, feature flows, endpoints, who owns what. Agents start each session with that context, and whatever they learn gets written back.
On a platform I had never seen, I started by documenting its core repos with an agent. A few weeks later I had a cross-repo feature in production.
I give agents traces, logs and source code and ask for reproductions and ranked hypotheses. Then I check each one against real data before I touch anything.
Audit scripts, reports and dashboards that used to be a week of tedium now take a couple of focused sessions.
Copilot agent mode and Claude Code do a lot of the typing. Nothing ships until I've checked it against the code, the git history and what production actually does.
I keep the agent instruction files in our repos current and tell the team what worked, and what didn't.
03 / Side projects
My own app, a client website, the server in my living room and the notes system that holds it all together.
My own product · web + iOS beta
A habit tracker that tells your friends when you slack off.
Pact is my own product. You set habits, Pact keeps score, and if you skip too often an accountability partner hears about it on WhatsApp. It runs on the web and as an iOS app that's currently in TestFlight.
uvaconsulting.net is a client project: a fast site that the owner updates through a CMS, without calling me.
An old laptop (Core i7, 32 GB RAM) running Debian around the clock. It hosts my friends' Valheim world, blocks ads for every device I own and runs Pact's automations. Admin access only goes through my VPN, so no admin ports are open to the internet.
Friends
Steam client
DuckDNS + router
dynamic IP, port fwd
Debian 13 server
i7 · 32 GB · UFW · 24/7
My devices
Tailscale tailnet
My second brain, set up so agents can read it too. About 2,000 ChatGPT and Claude conversations converted to Markdown with front matter and links, next to topic notes, project docs and runbooks. Claude Code works inside it with project instructions, persistent memory and a few custom skills.
One skill plans my weekly meal prep. It checks public supermarket prices, balances the macros and drops the shopping list into Notion over MCP.
AI_Brain/
├─ CLAUDE.mdagent instructions
├─ ChatGPT/~2,000 conversations
├─ Conversations/Claude sessions
├─ Projects/docs & runbooks
├─ Topics/topic notes
└─ Dashboards/Bases + React app
A microservices project I built to learn how the pieces fit: a JWT auth gateway, WebSocket chat with media, stories, notifications and an infinite feed. Dockerised behind Nginx, with PostgreSQL for core data and MongoDB for the social graph.
04 / Toolbox
05 / About
I went to a maths and computer science high school in Petroșani, then studied Computer Science and IT at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. I joined Betfair Romania Development as an intern in 2023 and stayed.
What I enjoy most is following a bug all the way down. It starts as a broken animation, turns out to be a resolver, and ends in a config file three layers below where anyone was looking. I don't panic when production breaks. I get curious.
Away from the keyboard I'm at the gym, out running, flying a drone or taking photos. I also read, watch anime and keep the Valheim server alive.
8 Udemy courses · 183.5 hours
06 / Contact
Hiring, building something, or stuck on a weird bug? Send me an email. I answer them myself.
