Petru Hincu
Staff Software Engineer at Quorum
Chișinău, Moldova
Summary
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Top SchoolPetru Hincu is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web platforms and data pipelines, currently leading engineering efforts at Quorum from Chișinău, Moldova. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Ruby and Python across full-stack projects—spanning Rails backends, React front-ends, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL and message-driven systems like RabbitMQ. Previously he scaled and architected GovPredict’s core legislative and donor-research products, growing and mentoring teams while improving delivery systems and reliability. An active open-source contributor, he has made practical front- and back-end improvements to the distributed Diaspora social network, showing attention to privacy-aware, user-facing features. Known for turning complex domain requirements into pragmatic, well-tested solutions, he pairs technical leadership with a continuous appetite for learning across languages such as PHP and Clojure.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Center of Excellence in Economics and Computer Science (College)Universitatea Tehnică a Moldovei
Github Skills (14)
ruby-rails10
javascript10
rails10
ruby10
backbonejs9
backbone9
css9
sass8
haml8
social-networking7
distribute7
federated7
social-graph7
decentralization7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
diaspora/diaspora
Feb 2014 - Jun 2014
A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Petru primarily focused on enhancing the front-end and back-end functionality of the Diaspora social network. Their contributions include fixing bugs in the photo stream, improving hashtag handling, and refactoring the poll creation process. The user also implemented improvements related to the handling of mentions and reshared posts, indicating a good understanding of both the front-end and back-end aspects of the application.
social-networkprivacyrailsp2pprivacy-aware
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