About

Alex is a 28 year old Romanian blogger/software developer, independent consultant/freelancer, ruby enthusiast and iPhone software vendor.

When in high school he was pretty strong in Maths and won prizes to a bunch of national maths contests(and a couple of physics or informatics regional ones); that’s also how he got in without a contest into Romania’s top Computer Science University – Politehnica Bucharest. This was when he found out that he loved Computer Science a lot more than Maths which got more and more difficult while IT got more and more exciting.

During his 5th year of college he went to Paris, at Ecole Polytechnique, where he took Majors in Computer Science and a Master’s degree in Algorithms; this was the time when he discovered he enjoyed a lot more building things (aka software) than studying them (aka Computer Science).

During college he worked part-time or during internships in several IT firms (a Romanian one and 2 French ones), and after his Master’s he got a full-time job in the financial software sector at Murex S.A. Paris.

Although educational, C enterprise-level development proved soon to be a lot less exciting than he thought. So he got back to Romania where he worked on several personal projects using the Ruby on Rails framework and eventually became a freelancer and consultant in Web 2.0, Ruby, Rails and the like.

He worked remotely for almost 3 years for the Californian startup TReX Global, as Ruby on Rails software developer and system architect, creating unique and innovative web apps for real extate owners.

He is currently an independent software developer, in the realm of iPhone apps and more. He is generally NOT available for hire.

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9 Responses to “About”

  1. Antoine Monnier says:

    Hello Alex,

    I found your profile when browsing on rubyonrails.com and thought you would be a good fit for this assignment (see below).

    Can you please review the job and contact me if you feel interested in it? Are you familiar with REST? Do you have some sample code with RoR?

    Btw, I’m from the Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau too :)

    Best regards,
    Antoine.

    ——————-
    Ruby on Rails architect

    We are developping a business object server in Ruby on Rails, following REST principles. The server will deliver resources and support authentication, access control, caching and versioning. The server will be designed in a generic way, with a possibility to open source a part of the future code.

    This assignment consists in writing a technical document describing the architecture of the server. A detailed specification will be provided.

    To complete this assignement, we are looking for an experienced Ruby developper, with good knowledge of RoR, REST architecture and Ruby language.

    Requirements:
    - 4 years of programming experience or more
    - 1 year of experience with Ruby on Rails or more
    - Excellent Ruby hacker
    - 100% available for the next 2 months (for future assignments)

    Other skills:
    - Good English communication

  2. Alex says:

    Bonjour Antonine,
    Malheureusement je suis déjà pris dans un contrat de durée indéterminée plein temps, en tant que développeur en Rails pour un startup américain. Ceci elimine donc de l’equation ma disponibilite 100% dans les mois qui suivent.

    Par contre, si ca t’interesse, je peux te mettre en contact avec un développeur Rails d’origine roumaine domicilié dans la région parisienne (de ce que je connais), qui est disponible pour consultance et freelancing en RoR.

    Quant a moi, on garde le contact par email, si tu veux.
    courrier alexbrie sur gmail…

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