About

Me

• I was born and grew up in Romania, and have been living in the Netherlands for the past 10+ years
• I studied computer science at Poli and artificial intelligence at the UvA
• I currently work as a Software Engineer at Polarsteps
• You can find out more about me on LinkedIn

Projects

• In high-school I implemented this game (and made up this song)
• In my early twenties I kept two anonymous blogs saved here
• My master thesis was about optimizing engagement in online news
• I founded TasteDive around 2010 (aquired by Qloo in 2018) (my profile)
• Various (AI-powered) personal projects, like CouchVibe and WitSparks
• Writings including Why Socialism Fails - based on first-hand experience
• I’ve also worked at Hyves, TravelBird, Telegraaf Media Group (The Netherlands), Qloo (US), SoftHost (Romania)

This site

• On this site I’m sharing some of my thoughts
• It’s built with Jekyll and hosted for free on GitHub Pages

Thanks for reading!