Alex Hortopan
Head Of Engineering at Reperio
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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SeniorAlex Hortopan is a Head of Engineering based in Bucharest with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, high-availability web and mobile platforms. He has led end-to-end architecture and delivery for high-traffic media SaaS used by major Romanian publishers, combining Rust, Node.js and Kubernetes with CI/CD practices. As a former CTO and startup founder, he scaled R&D teams, drove product-led engineering, and helped a company reach a >$150M valuation while shipping real-time WebGL rendering and messaging SDKs. He blends hands-on systems work (infrastructure, backends, and web/mobile stacks) with people and project management, and continuously experiments with AI tools to accelerate development. An early freelancer and polyglot engineer, he’s comfortable moving from low-level tooling to large distributed systems, making him effective at both prototyping and operationalizing production services.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (73)
game-development10
godot10
game-engine10
ump10
open-source10
runtimes9
mongoose9
admob9
python9
spine9
infrastructure9
plugin9
scale8
gdscript8
infrastructure-management8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
hortopan/expressjs.routes.autoload
Dec 2014 - Aug 2021
Autoload Express.js routes
Contributions:1 release, 5 commits, 6 pushes in 6 years 8 months
expressautoloadroutesexpress-jsnodejs
hortopan/mongoose.autoload
Jul 2014 - Feb 2021
mongoose.models.autoload
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 6 years 8 months
nodejsautoloadmongodbmongoose
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