Lucian Popescu
Software Architect at Green Tree Marketing
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolLucian Popescu is a Software Architect based in Bucharest with over a decade of hands-on experience designing high-performance systems in PHP, C++ and Java. He specializes in refactoring legacy code into modular, testable architectures and has a track record of dramatic performance improvements (including 20x speed-ups in production web services). Lucian builds low-level solutions—named-pipe data distribution, file-based caching, web application firewalls and Linux services—while also training teams in clean-code and CI/CD practices. He maintains two notable open-source projects: an ultra-high-performance PHP framework (Lucinda) and a C++ data-structures library, reflecting a maker mindset that blends theoretical rigor with production pragmatism. Colleagues describe him as perfection-driven and creatively pragmatic, often applying algorithmic insight to practical scalability problems.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Science at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, German, French, Dutch
Stackoverflow
103reputation
4kreached
5answers
8questions
Github Skills (51)
mvc-architecture10
php-application10
attribute10
skeleton10
fluent-interface10
modular9
todoist9
codeception9
pattern9
behavior9
php9
api9
throwable9
trinitycore9
routeros9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
aherne/php-nosql-data-access-api
May 2016 - Jan 2024
Contributions:66 pushes, 9 branches, 35 tags in 7 years 9 months
aherne/php-security-api
Nov 2016 - Oct 2024
API implementing common web security patterns (eg: authentication, authorization) for PHP applications based on OWASP guidelines
Contributions:2 PRs, 119 pushes, 11 branches in 7 years 11 months
apiauthorizationsecurityphpauthentication
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