Mares Popa
Senior Software Engineer at Riverbed Technology
Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania
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Top SchoolMares Popa is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in frontend modernization, React/TypeScript development, and infrastructure that accelerates team delivery. He excels at leading "Challenge Phase" projects—migrating legacy frontends and cross-cloud systems while keeping business continuity—and has driven migrations from Azure to AWS and major rewrites from AngularJS to Next.js. Comfortable with both strategy and execution, he authors proposals, aligns UX and product trade-offs, and builds CI/CD and pipeline improvements that measurably reduce wait times. An advocate of delivery over theory, he pragmatically integrates AI tools like Copilot and Cursor to tighten the developer inner loop and speed production deploys. Based in Negrești-Oaș, Romania, he also shares his craft as a course lector, combining hands-on engineering with teaching to amplify team capability.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at Colegiul National Andrei MuresanuBachelor of Automated Control Engineering, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Automated Control Engineering, Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Politehnica Cluj Napoca
French, English, Romanian
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Github Skills (8)
markdown6
javascript6
developer-tools6
jquery6
react6
freelance5
azerothcore4
utilities1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
marespopa/marespopa
Nov 2022 - Jul 2026
My Personal Website
Contributions:5 PRs, 159 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 8 months
reactnextjs
marespopa/hermesmarkdown
Jun 2023 - Jul 2026
Hermes Notes - Markdown Editor
Contributions:1 release, 5 PRs, 452 pushes in 3 years 1 month
markdownnotesproductivity
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