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CH 00 — Hello, world

Signal acquired · Chișinău

Dumitru Podoleanu

from noise
to signal.

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Developer and Applied Computer Science student building interfaces for mobile and the web. This page is my story so far — told one transmission at a time.

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CH 01 — Origin

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Dumitru Podoleanu

Applied Computer Science · UCLL · Leuven2026

I'm Dumitru — a developer from Chișinău who lives where design meets code. It started as noise: tutorials, half-built ideas, too many tabs. Applied Computer Science at UCLL gave it structure — web, mobile, data, cloud. Then came real users: a restaurant chain, a city hackathon, a research group, a marketplace app. This page is the signal so far.

Based in
Chișinău, Moldova
Studying
Applied Computer Science · UCLL
Currently
Mobile developer intern · StarNet
Speaks
Romanian · English · Russian

CH 02 — University

University

where the noise started to make sense.

UC Leuven-Limburg

Bachelor of Applied Computer Science

UCLL · Leuven, Belgium

Sep 2023 → 2026Final stretch

Software development

  • Programming
  • Front-End
  • Back-End & Full-Stack
  • Software Engineering
  • Software Craftsmanship
  • Mobile Applications
  • Cloud-Native Engineering
  • IT & Innovation

Data

  • Database Foundations
  • Data Management
  • Data Engineering
  • Data Analytics & Machine Learning
  • Data Visualisation & Analytics

  1. Year 01 · 2023 – 24

    Foundations

    Programming, databases and the front-end. Learning how computers think — and how to think like one.

  2. Year 02 · 2024 – 25

    Full-stack

    Back-end, mobile and software engineering. Bigger codebases, Agile teams and apps with real users.

  3. Year 03 · 2025 – 26

    Depth

    Cloud-native, data engineering, machine learning and software craftsmanship — plus the bachelor thesis with OMFS-IMPATH.

  4. Now · 2026

    Internship

    Mobile developer intern at StarNet in Chișinău. The last transmission before graduation.

CH 03 — Projects

Projects

things I built to learn — and learned by building.

P/012026
Featured

Bachelor thesis · OMFS-IMPATH, KU Leuven

A desktop app for segmenting and planning on 3D dental models from CBCT scans, with Blender doing the geometry work in the background.

  • Electron
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • three.js
Case study
P/022026

Fleet operations · mobile app

An iOS and Android app that puts the fleet, voyages, noon reports, documents and invoices of tanker and gas-carrier operators in their pocket.

  • Expo
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • NativeWind
Case study
P/03

Restaurant chain app · client project

A cross-platform app for a Belgian restaurant chain — taken from academic prototype to a production-ready build for real business use.

  • React Native
  • Expo
  • Supabase
Case study
P/04

24h hackathon · City of Leuven

A Telegram bot that lets citizens report trash in seconds — verified by AI — with a dashboard and heatmap for the city.

  • Python
  • FastAPI
  • SQLite
  • Telegram Bot
Case study
P/05

Team project for Telenet

A full-stack web platform that helps Telenet employees find internal job opportunities.

  • Next.js
  • TypeScript
  • Node.js
Case study
P/06

IoT system · academic team project

Scan an RFID card, pour your own drink — consumption tracked in real time for automated billing.

  • TypeScript
  • MongoDB
  • WebSockets
  • Next.js
Case study
P/07

Course project · data visualisation

A compliance-monitoring dashboard for Garmin health and activity data.

  • Python
  • Shiny
Case study
P/08

Software craftsmanship · back-end

A back-end for organizing campus events, structured around use cases instead of frameworks.

  • Screaming architecture
  • Design patterns
  • Back-end
Case study

CH 04 — Internship

Internship

a real product, a real team, real code review.

Building the mobile app for the nativ.md marketplace from the first commit — React Native and Expo SDK 57, shipped feature by feature through merge requests reviewed by a senior mentor.

Role
Mobile developer intern
Company
StarNet · nativ.md
Period
Sep 2026 → now

70+

commits

10+

features merged

1

app from zero

  • Expo
  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Expo Router
  • NativeWind
  • Feature-Sliced Design
  • i18n
  1. 01

    App shell and design system

    Navigation with Expo Router, translations, tooling — and the UI primitives everything else is built from: typography, buttons, inputs, search.

  2. 02

    Home

    Header and search, banners, a brand marquee, collections, product sections, popular categories and FAQ — wired to the live marketplace API.

  3. 03

    Catalog and listing

    Category drill-down and a product listing with sort and filter sheets.

  4. 04

    Product details

    The product page, with a swipeable picture pager and everything a customer needs to decide.

~/internship — zshLIVE
$git log --oneline --author=dumitru
22ae0e0feat(ui): typography, button, input and search bar primitives
100d908feat(home): header with live search
ff5ea0bfeat(home): brands marquee and collections
ccea6fdfeat(catalog): category drill-down
464260dfeat(listing): sort and filter sheets
68ff2c9refactor(product): carousel for the picture pager
$

CH 05 — Stack

Stack

tools I trust to carry the signal.

Languages

  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python
  • Java
  • SQL

Front-end and mobile

  • React
  • React Native
  • Next.js
  • Expo
  • Electron
  • Tailwind

Back-end and data

  • Node.js
  • Spring Boot
  • FastAPI
  • PostgreSQL
  • Supabase
  • MongoDB

Craft

  • Git
  • Agile teams
  • Design patterns
  • Blender pipelines

Spoken

  • RomanianNative
  • EnglishFluent · Cambridge
  • RussianFluent

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CH 06 — Contact

Open to opportunities

Signallocked.

Got a project, a role, or just a question? My inbox is open.

Write to me

dimapodoleanu@gmail.com
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