Co-founder @Segmio · Building since 2010 · Bucharest, Romania
Segmio — AI-native net worth tracking and financial projection app with scenario discovery. Third generation. Building now.
FinancialAha — Financial planning spreadsheet templates used in 55+ countries. Fully bootstrapped, no external funding.
Travelfoss — Co-founded a travel blog born from visiting 51 countries across all 7 continents, including Antarctica. Active since 2021.
Froala — Co-founded a WYSIWYG rich text editor used by 6,000+ customers across 110 countries, including Apple, IBM, Samsung, Amazon and Adobe. Acquired by Idera in 2018.
WriteNext — A writing habit tool built during the COVID-19 lockdown. Acquired in October 2020.
IXAPI (2012–2013) — Co-founded an API-centric application development platform with drag-and-drop database design. Built and shut down.
Eventriffic (2010–2011) — Co-founded a real-time event feedback platform at Romania's first Startup Weekend. Winner at Startup Weekend Romania (2010), Company of the Year 2011 by Junior Achievement Romania, and 3rd place at the Europe Enterprise Challenge 2011 in Madrid.
Freelancer (2010–2014) — Full-stack development across Ruby on Rails, PHP, C#, PostgreSQL, JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest — Bachelor's degree, Computer Science (2009–2013). Graduated with 10.
Google Summer of Code 2012 — Selected as a student developer for the Joomla Framework. Led the Social Package project, adding Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ integrations to Joomla. Ranked 4th among top contributors. Awarded First Prize by ROSEdu for outstanding contributions to Joomla.
Google Summer of Code 2013 — Returned as a mentor for the Cloud Storage APIs project, adding support for Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Rackspace Cloud Files and Dropbox.
I write about travel, building startups, bootstrapping, and launching products.
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