2018

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Portfolio Projects (6)

  • Docker MachineHackscience

    November 2017 - December 2018

    London, UK

    • A server that would spin docker container instances up on demand, and hibernate them on inactivity
    • Full provisioning on a per-user basis
    • Sub-domain to port and port to container instance mapping
  • Hackscience FrontendHackscience

    January 2017 - January 2018

    London, UK

    • Two iterations of the Hackscience frontend application
    • Original application prototyped within a week
    • Second iteration can either function as a Progressive Web Application, as well as a native version for all desktop and mobile platforms
    • Fully off-line after initial data load
  • 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)

  • React & GraphQL TrainerJSLeague

    November 2018 - Present

    Bucharest, Romania

    • I am responsible with workshops related to the ReactJS and GraphQL ecosystems, diving into more basic (ES6/Typescript) or more advanced (Docker) subjects, depending on trainer availability and experience levels.
    • To date, I ran multiple single-day, evening and two-day workshops, ranging from ReactJS introductory courses, to ES6, Docker, GraphQL and React Hooks workshops
    • Ran a joint workshop with Modex on building an application with Blockchain and ReactJS
  • 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
  • Associate Software EngineerR/GA

    June 2018 - November 2019

    Bucharest, Romania

    I have worked on many projects, for companies spanning from the US to a few EU countries, to China and Japan, with technologies ranging from serverless AWS, frontend development and mobile app development, to web voice recognition, to hybid React Native projects, serverless video processing and asset generation.

Built and maintained by Sabin Marcu

(2025 -2026)

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