In a nutshell
A full-stack developer from Bucharest, Romania, EU, with 20+ years of experience.
Curious by nature, an avid reader of fantasy, fiction, history & tech-related literature, always looking to expand my skillset and horizons, to understand how things work and to make them work better.
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Creator of
Owner of swapp.ro.
Current tech-stack
- Typescript/JavaScript
- Node.js
- React/Next.js, but I'm also interested in Svelte/SvelteKit
- React UI Frameworks I've been working with:
- Mantine — I'm a contributor and also the author of
📒 Mantine DataTable - Ant Design
- MaterialUI
- Blueprint.js
- Mantine — I'm a contributor and also the author of
- tRPC — I'm a contributor and also the author of
✨ tRPC-SvelteKit - Prisma, PostgreSQL, Hasura
- NextAuth
- Firebase (mostly firebase-auth)
- SQL in general; I have experience in designing enterprise DB architectures while working for multinational companies in the past
- I have a few CSS tricks up my sleeve, a good understanding of the DOM, I'm fluent with CSS-in-JS, SASS/CSS-Modules, Emotion and I'm even good-enough at creating website/application designs from scratch; here are some examples:
- The docs websites for Mantine DataTable and tRPC-SvelteKit
- swapp.ro
- boutiquetravel.ro
- interiordelight
™️ - King's Host
- AJM Fleet Purchase
- sellcarbuycar.com
- ASPAX documentation website
Things I've worked with back in the Dark Ages
- PHP & MySQL, around y2k (yeah, I'm that old)
- Java/J2EE, .NET/C#, Oracle, SQL Server, BizTalk, cca. 2002—2007
- CoffeeScript & IcedCofeeScript, back when when JS had no async/await
- Quite a few templating languages such as Mustache or Jade/Pug and some strange old JS frameworks (Backbone, Riot.js) in the pre-React era
Notable open-source projects I've built over the years
📒 Mantine DataTable — a "dark-theme aware" table component for your Mantine UI data-rich applications, featuring asynchronous data loading support, pagination, multiple rows selection, column sorting, custom cell data rendering, row context menu, and more✨ tRPC-SvelteKit — an adapter allowing you to build end-to-end typesafe APIs with tRPC.io in your SvelteKit applications📦 PocketBaseUML — a free, open-source UML diagram generator for PocketBase that can be used online to connect to HTTPS servers, or runned as annpmpackage to inspect local HTTP servers🐧 Expose-WSL — probably the easiest way to expose apps running on WSL to local network devices🌐 IISExpress-Proxy — A simple, yet practical command-line utility enabling .NET developers to test web applications served by IIS Express on remote devices; it's been around since 2015, but I'm amazed by the sheer number of people who still have to use IISExpress nowadays🛠️ ASPAX — a simple Node.js asset packager inspired by Rails, in 2013, when Webpack didn't exist⚙️ Node.js, MongoDB, PostgreSQL & MySQL cartridges for Redhat's OpenShift, in 2015-2015, when Docker wasn't yet a wide-spread tool
The long(er) story
You can find my full-length boring obituary Resume/CV on LinkedIn at linkedin.com/in/icflorescu, but here's the blurb:
- 20+ years of experience in web and software development
- I've worked for various companies (from mid-sized to large multinationals such as Allianz and Garanta — member of National Bank of Greece) during the initial part of my career; for the last part I've been working as an independent developer
- I sometimes
rantwrite about technology and its impact on human behaviour in articles like these.
Hobbies, likes & dislikes
Before approaching me for work
I'm potentially interested in subcontracting front-end or full-stack development work (leaning towards front-end).
You can learn more about what I did over the years by visiting my LinkedIn profile, but since you are on this page, chances are that you already have a pretty good idea of how my skills could be of assistance to you.
If you want to hire me, please consider that I'm most productive with the aforementioned tech-stack.
NOTE: I'm currently getting a constant flow of approaches, some of them relevant, others not so relevant. Therefore, mentioning in your text that you've seen my GitHub profile would:
- tell me that you know exactly what you need me for (as opposed to just trying to fill a vacant role);
- let me know that my skills would indeed be valuable for you and would spare us both valuable time that we'd otherwise have to spend in trying to assess that;
- help me prioritize your message and come up with a quick reply.
