2016

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Portfolio Projects (5)

  • Chrome ExtensionUniversity of Southampton

    November 2015 - January 2016

    Southampton, UK

    • Goal: Building a tracking and stat gathering utility for Google Chrome, applied to citizen projects such as Zooniverse.

    • Formed the basis of a Chrome Extension with the goal of tracking a user’s behaviour and statistics while participating in citizen science projects, both for personal goals (statistics, time tracking) and for global statistics (important for both research and platform improvement).

  • Hackscience ServerHackscience

    December 2016 - January 2018

    London, UK

    • The entirety of the application’s cloud back-end, hosted on Heroku.
    • Functions as the glue between the Hackscience Frontend (detailed above), the IoT hubs and the user’s data.
    • Handles sub-domain / authorization to user mapping
    • Handles push notifications, and email notifications, as well as resin.io (now balena.io) device management
    • Won first place in the Startup Weekend Southampton 2014.
    • A startup created at a hackathon.
    • Our project was a platform to create multiplayer games which used multiple devices to create one single game canvas (eg. play ping-pong on a canvas that stretched between two smartphones).
    • Won the Summerhacks Hackathon in Timișoara in 2013.
    • Automated software management / installer for Raspberry Pi’s.
    • Useful for remote installation of software / deletion / activation on a Raspberry Pi connected to the internet.
    • A web-based WebGL physics simulator. Was abandoned at that time for lack of technology performance.

Experience (3)

  • Senior Software EngineerHackscience

    November 2016 - January 2018

    London, UK

    • The company focused on automating lab equipment, and bringing the ecosystem online (data, controls, scheduling, etc), in an IoT platform
    • I was in charge of the entire online part of the project, from a front-end interface to the connection between clients and their IoT devices, installed in labs
  • Temporary AssistantUniversity of Southampton

    June 2015 - February 2016

    Southampton, UK

    • I have worked as a temporary worker under Dr. Elena Simperl of the University of Southampton’s Web and Internet Science group, participating in two projects, detailed above, under Academic Projects.
  • External ConsultantInDemand

    February 2016 - August 2016

    Remote

    • I was hired to build the Dashboard (Administration) section of the project.
    • The project itself was structured in one backend, and three Frontend applications, the Dashboard being one of them.
    • Collaborated with a team spread across the world, including USA, UK, Romania and China.

Education (1)

Built and maintained by Sabin Marcu

(2025 -2026)

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