Who I am, what I'm up to, and how to reach me.
Hey, I'm Vlad. I make things that blink, beep and occasionally brew the coffee.
I write the software that makes hardware useful: firmware, telemetry and the dashboards on top of them. I've built for cars, pharma robots, office buildings and my own house, and I'm happiest where the code meets something you can touch.
Email is the quickest way to reach me.
C and C++ on microcontrollers and embedded Linux, RTOS scheduling, AUTOSAR in automotive.
From sensor to dashboard: MQTT pipelines, REST APIs and time-series storage.
Vue.js frontends with Node and Express behind them, built to be maintained.
A Proxmox home lab, containers, and CI that keeps everything honest.
From RTOS firmware on microcontrollers to robust websites and data platforms.
Home appliances, factory automation, medical monitoring.
Props, remote-controlled events, mechanical and serialised triggers.
Enclosures, mechanical parts and wooden furniture for the hardware.
Where I've worked and what I did there. The CV has the long version.
Robotics and automation for pharma and medical clients, from an R&D lab where ideas get prototyped, tested and demoed.
Frontend-first in a five-person Agile team split between Cluj and Amsterdam.
Automotive outsourcing in teams of 200+, where traceability isn't optional. Started here as an intern building an RC car on a Pi and STM32s.
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Cluj-Napoca. My degree project grew into SmartBuilding.
Hardware and software I've built, each with a short case study.
A Raspberry Pi server that runs lights, heating, alarm, locks, curtains and more around the house, talking to Wi-Fi Arduinos over MQTT.
Telegram bots running directly on ESP32 boards, so I can read sensors and flip switches without a central server or a custom app.
A Raspberry Pi hub with remote modules for an office building: RFID access and time logging, energy monitoring, lighting, HVAC and parking.
Real-time monitoring and remote control of karts on a circuit, with lap reports and the venue's lights, garage and bookings wired in.
Self-hosted services running at home. Proxmox underneath, everything else on top.
Links saved to Karakeep. The public list is here; the shared one is in the drawer, behind the login.
Working notes, mostly lists of links worth keeping.
What's on screen when the soldering iron is off.