Mini chess engine
A from-scratch move generator and mate-in-one solver, with check detection that scans outward from the king instead of enumerating the opponent's replies.
- 16M/sec
- 2.4M/sec
Selected work
2D space shooter
A real-time top-down shooter with three enemy behaviors, a shared bullet system for both sides, and a small polymorphic entity hierarchy driving all of it.
- 8
- 3
FPGA washing machine controller
A 13-state finite-state machine controlling a full wash cycle on real FPGA hardware, with the entire program expressed as control-unit outputs.
- 13
- 27 (2,402 lines)
- 7
C Memory Police
A VS Code extension that catches memory leaks, double frees, and the classic failed-realloc leak — live, as you type.
- 500 ms
See Me — face search
An interactive CLI that searches a photo library by face, matching InsightFace embeddings by cosine similarity, with CUDA acceleration when it's available.
Hackathon
Thermal Sleuth
A pipeline that flags industrial thermal discharge in EU waters from Sentinel-3 satellite data, scores confidence, and serves it through a REST API — built at the CASSINI Hackathon.
About
Computer Engineering student at the Technical University of Cluj-Napoca. Comfortable down at the hardware — VHDL, x86 assembly, C — and equally at home in the software layered on top of it, from a chess engine to face-recognition search.
Languages
- C
- C++
- Python
- TypeScript
- x86 Assembly
- VHDL
Tools
- Git
- GCC
- GDB
- Make
- Linux/Bash
- AMD Vivado
Libraries
- SDL3
- ONNX Runtime
- InsightFace
- NumPy
- VS Code Extension API
Get in touch
Best reached by email — I'll get back to you within a day or two.
fitvlad1@gmail.com