My work

About 5 years ago I joined a website called Jucaushii.ro, a Romanian gaming news website. More than 2 years ago Playfuls.com, its English counterpart, was launched. Last year I sold both websites and I used the money to pay a part of my college. At its highest peak playfuls.com had more than 3 million visitors per month (If you want to put this into perspective, check this out). I would really want to stress the fact that I never was involved in the editorial process, I only handled the tech part. And by this I mean I wrote the core of the website (along with my friend Stokky) and I configured/maintained the Linux servers. The current setup has a main server and a bunch of caches in front.

My main area of interest is distributed applications in general and datamining in general. By datamining I mean extracting useful data from unstructured information (what Google does). I've been doing this in one way or another for the past 3 years. Even i do it on an on/off basis, this is my true passion. My other major interests are Linux and programming in general.

One of my new projects is GeoScaling, which will be a company offering geographical web scaling services and products. We will help companies build, maintain and scale web applications that have many visitors or are mission critical. Our first product is GeoScaling DNS, a DNS server that can redirect users to the closest mirror based on their country of origin. It will also be able to do load balancing and global failover. The software is still in alpha and we're currently testing it. This is going to be an interesting summer.