Software Engineering Intern @ IBM (Jun. 2026 – Present)
- Collaborating in a remote team of 3 to build AutoMinutes, an AI-driven platform turning raw meeting transcripts into structured summaries and actionable trackers.
- Owning the Spring Boot backend and LLM integration layer, parsing unstructured model outputs into deterministic JSON records in PostgreSQL.
Cybersecurity Consultant & Participant @ Google Cybersecurity Seminars (Jan. 2026 – Present)
- Completed intensive training covering network defense, web application auditing, and SOC operations.
- Partnering to deliver pro-bono vulnerability assessments for local SMEs, currently executing wireless penetration tests and black-box web testing for live clients.
I'm a Computer Science student who enjoys building systems from the ground up—from AI-powered parking platforms and SAT solvers to custom physics engines.
My interests center around backend engineering, systems programming, and offensive security. I enjoy understanding how software works beneath the surface, whether that's implementing CDCL from scratch, auditing web applications, or engineering cryptographic exploits under strict on-site constraints.
- 🎓 BSc Computer Science (English) — West University of Timișoara (Oct. 2024 – Expected 2027)
- 🔐 Google Cybersecurity Seminars — Selected participant, providing live vulnerability assessments & wireless pentesting
- ⚡ Outside of code: JDM cars, sim racing, hardware tinkering
- Developing AutoMinutes and managing LLM integration layers at IBM
- Executing black-box web application testing and wireless pentesting for local SMEs
- Competing in on-site and global jeopardy-style CTF competitions
- Designing robust full-stack applications with modern Java (21) and React
Co-built Parkie in a team of 5 over a 48-hour window. Personally owned the FastAPI backend, YOLOv11 slot matching logic, and live operator dashboard.
Community Problem Track · Mar 2026
Ranked 11th out of 30 teams (Senior Category) in an intense, 8-hour on-site CTF without AI tools. Engineered exploits for PHP code injection, Known Plaintext Attacks, and JWT forgery.
ZeroDay CTF · May 2026
Exploited JWT forgery vulnerabilities and e-commerce business logic flaws while automating attack workflows with custom Python scripts across Web, Crypto, and Steganography fields.
Ranked 101 / 350 Teams · Feb 2026
AI-powered smart parking platform with real-time occupancy detection. Camera feeds are processed using YOLOv11, mapped to parking polygons via a FastAPI backend, and synchronized seamlessly to a React Native (Expo) mobile application and a live Vite + React operator dashboard via Supabase Realtime.
Full-stack gamified learning platform featuring a Spring Boot REST API secured with Spring Security and stateless JWT authentication, PostgreSQL pessimistic locking to ensure consistency for concurrent XP updates, and a responsive React 19 + Tailwind CSS frontend using Axios interceptors for automatic token refresh.
Implemented four Boolean satisfiability algorithms in C++17, culminating in a CDCL solver with 1-UIP conflict analysis, non-chronological backtracking, and VSIDS-inspired heuristics, achieving up to ×ばつ speedups over the project's brute-force baseline on benchmark SAT instances.
Interactive 2D rigid-body physics engine featuring angular dynamics, OBB + SAT narrow-phase collision detection, grid-based broad-phase spatial partitioning, and realistic impulse-based object interaction.
SFML
SAT
Euler Integration
Cybersecurity Toolkit → Wireless Security Testing • Web Exploitation • PHP Code Injection • Known Plaintext Attacks • JWT Forgery • SOC Operations
