Hi, I'm Florin — a developer based in Bucharest.
- 🖼️ Florin Popa Personal Portfolio
- 📄 CV
- You can probably rabbit-hole into my curated list of GitHub Stars
- self-taught, started in kindergarten, coding for 30+ years
- failed startup during highschool with two others for a car classified ads platform
- started working professionally since the 2nd year of college. first month salary was 100$
- worked in a web agency where I had to do everything except design and sales
- moved to startup accelerator where I led the team that delivered a project leading to a company funded
- got the opportunity to be paid to learn Ruby and work at one of the best companies in Boston, but company got acquired by PE and I was forced to find something better
- spent a year at Smily syncing data into Airbnb
- spent another year in a Nigerian fintech building savings features
- freelancing ever since
- EduChk - lightweight academic domain checker for edge workers
- ingredient-parser-hybrid - hybrid ingredient parser using CRF with LLM fallback and embedding-based normalization
- recipe-scraper - ethical web scraper for allrecipes.com recipes
- dotfiles - had to be done 🤷
Flat Data Self Updating Repositories
- termoficare-data - tracking heating status in Bucharest
- aeron-miller-index - financial index based on the local Aeron market
- Follow the Sun Calculator - plan 24/7 shift coverage across timezones for distributed team
- Time Value Calculator - calculates how much to spend to save time
- Advent of Code - Advent of Code solutions in Ruby
- Gossip Glomers in Go - distributed systems challenges using Maelstrom
- Claude Code in Go - a Claude Code clone built in Go using CodeCrafters
- Redis in Ruby - build your own Redis in Ruby using CodeCrafters
- HTTP Server in Go - build your own HTTP server in Go using CodeCrafters






