Sorin Davidoi
Senior Software Engineer at Finalto
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolSorin Davidoi is a Senior Software Engineer based in Copenhagen with 12 years of experience building accessible, performant front-end systems for large-scale web platforms. He has progressed through frontend roles at Falcon.io and Brandwatch to senior engineering leadership at Finalto, consistently focusing on UX, performance and maintainability. An active open-source contributor, Sorin has improved accessibility and semantics on high-profile projects like Mastodon, rust-lang's crates.io and mdBook, and the Hugo theme hyde, adding ARIA/focus fixes, semantic HTML and WCAG-compliant styling. He pairs deep practical skills in performance optimization—lazy-loading, memory reduction and bundle-splitting—with a knack for subtle usability improvements that benefit screen-reader and low-memory users. Educated at Københavns Universitet (MSc Computer Science), he brings a methodical, audit-driven approach to front-end engineering and accessibility advocacy.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
National College "Iancu de Hunedoara"Computer Science, Computer Science at Johannes Kepler Universität LinzMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Københavns UniversitetBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at West University of Timisoara
Romanian, English, German, Danish
Github Skills (16)
accessibility10
html10
css10
emberjs10
hugo10
javascript10
user-interface10
react-router10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
react10
wcag9
interface-design8
fest7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
spf13/hyde
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
Port of Mdo's excellent theme to Hugo
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sorin primarily focused on enhancing the accessibility and semantic correctness of the Hugo theme's front-end code. Their commits addressed multiple areas, including the addition of semantic HTML elements (`main`, `<article>`, `<time>`, `<aside>`), ensuring proper use of attributes for accessibility (e.g., `datetime` in `<time>` tags), and allowing zooming. They also improved the site's CSS by adding `text-size-adjust` and adjusting color contrast to comply with WCAG guidelines. Furthermore, they fixed issues with the `gmpg` URL protocol.
excellentmdohugohugo-theme
rust-lang/mdBook
Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
Create book from markdown files. Like Gitbook but implemented in Rust
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 commits, 21 PRs, 94 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sorin primarily focused on improving the accessibility and user experience of the `mdbook` project's front-end. Their work included refactoring the theme to utilize semantic HTML elements like `<nav>` and `<main>`, adjusting CSS, and implementing a sticky header. They addressed accessibility issues by modifying ARIA attributes and ensuring proper focus management, enhancing usability for users with disabilities.
rustgitbookmdbookrust-langmarkdown
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