Hello there, my name is Darius and as of this year I'm 32 years old. I am a full stack developer with 11 years of experience, including 6 years at Around25 and the past 5 years as a freelancer working with a leading AI conversational platform company.

To give a bit of context, even since I was a child I liked to tinker with things. I remember my parents telling me a story about how I used to unscrew the legs off of tables just the right amount so it would still stay up but fall when touched – guess I was not an exemplary child at that age, but as I grew, this evolved into a passion for understanding how things work. By the time I got to high school I already started dabbling into code. It was here where I learned the basics of algorithmics and built my first projects. I continued my studies at Technical University of Cluj Napoca where I majored in Systems Engineering and Applied Informatics. While studying here my interest for programming evolved and I became interested not only in writing code but understanding the machine which runs it.

Since 2019, I've been working as a lead freelancer with a prominent AI chatbot platform, where I've had the opportunity to make a significant impact. I completely rewrote their initial MVP and scaled it to handle thousands of concurrent chats. One of my proudest achievements has been leading the technical transformation from intent-based support bots to LLM AI agents, while architecting most of their current system. Along the way, I've grown and mentored a team of talented developers, combining my love for both coding and helping others grow.

Regarding the technologies which I've used throughout my career, apart from the ones I did during my college years like Java, C, C# and one or two lines of Matlab, I've worked extensively with TypeScript and GoLang (my current go-to languages), along with PHP and NodeJs on backend. On the frontend, I've built complex applications with React and Angular, developed hybrid mobile apps with Cordova, and native Android for some proof of concepts. I've architected systems using micro-services, built numerous CI/CD pipelines with Docker, Jenkins, Argo and Kubernetes and have deep experience with AWS and cloud infrastructure.

I've also had the chance to work on diverse projects ranging from crypto trading exchanges and blockchain implementations (including Smart Contracts and ERC20 tokens) to e-learning platforms and healthcare systems. Each project has taught me something new about building scalable, reliable systems.

To satisfy the other side of my passion, in my spare time I play around with Arduino, RaspberryPi's, nodeMcu's – IoT projects mostly. I built an obstacle avoidance robot that can navigate autonomously, which was a fun blend of hardware and software challenges.

To give back to the community which helped me grow, I try to make all the awesome pieces of code which I write publicly available on my github profile. I've developed several open source projects, including generaptr, a TypeScript node CLI package which, given a database connection, reads the schema then generates a RESTful API based on it.

And to prove that I'm not a hermit behind a screen, I also enjoy playing some table tennis, reading a good book, walking home from the office (gives me time to think), and I don't mind the occasional football match.

Thank you for taking the time of your day to read about me.