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EduardCristea

Software engineer & founder

I build software, and increasingly I run the things around it that decide whether the software matters.

At Bono Fintech that means writing the code. At YBC Tech, the studio I started at the beginning of 2026, it means everything else as well.

I took two master's degrees in parallel and finished both this summer — an MSc in computer science in Bucharest, and an MBA in Dijon, in the first double-diploma cohort between the two universities.

01 Now

August 2026

Building a full AI-native homelab — NAS, servers, the lot. Racking my own hardware so the models, the storage and the services all live under one roof I control, rather than rented by the month from somebody else.

02 Work

Mar 2026 now

Bono Fintech

Software Engineer

Fintech platform work in C# and .NET — document signing, identity verification, and the services around them. Hands-on engineering alongside running projects end to end: timelines, deliverables, cross-team alignment.

Jan 2026 now

YBC Tech

Founder

A software studio I co-founded in Bucharest, taking client ideas from a conversation to something that runs in production. ybctech.ro

Sep 2024 Feb 2026

Playtika

Software Developer

Core gameplay features and production systems in C# for mobile games at scale. Performance optimisation across iterative release cycles.

Jul 2023 Sep 2024

Essensys Software

Junior Software Developer

Web applications in ASP.NET Core, Angular and React over SQL. Designed RESTful APIs, and improved application stability through debugging and refactoring.

03 Things I've built

2026 —

AI-native homelab

NAS, servers, the whole rack. Self-hosted models and storage, owned rather than rented. In progress, which is the honest state of most interesting things.

InfrastructureSelf-hosted

2026 —

YBC Tech

The studio. Client ideas taken from a conversation to something running in production, co-founded and run out of Bucharest.

Companyybctech.ro

2025

Tournament platform

The system Kids Cup actually ran on. Fixtures, venues, referees and results for 97 teams — and a scheduling algorithm that placed 196 matches across four pitches over three days without a single collision.

Algorithmturnee.ajfilfov.ro

2024

Smarthack — Caesar SRL

A weekend, a team of three, and an algorithm that scored higher than every other entry in the competition. It took the Innovation Award, sponsored by Adobe.

HackathonInnovation Award

2026

This page

The globe above is not a map library. It is a 2.1KB bitmask of the world's landmass, rasterised at build time and projected onto a sphere with orthographic maths in plain canvas. No frameworks, no tiles, no third-party requests anywhere on this site.

Canvas2.1KB of world

04 On the pitch

2025

Kids Cup

Organiser · with AJF Ilfov and FRF

A youth football tournament run over three days on four pitches in Clinceni, alongside former professional footballer Marian Chițu. I built the platform it ran on — turnee.ajfilfov.ro — including the scheduling algorithm that kept 196 fixtures across four pitches from colliding.

Kids Cup 2025, in numbers

  • 97teams
  • 1,455children
  • 196matches
  • 743goals
  • 65referees

From the centre of the pitch to the centre of the organisation. From whistle to workflow, from decisions to direction.

Dec 2018 Dec 2025

AJF Ilfov

Football Referee

Seven years officiating in the county football system, more than five hundred matches across competitive levels. You learn things out there that no codebase teaches you: you decide in two seconds, on incomplete information, and half the pitch disagrees with you either way. Then you keep the game moving.

05 The atlas

Places I have been, and roughly why. The pitch taught me to read a room; travelling taught me how differently rooms are built.

Drag to spin · scroll to zoom · click a city

  • Bucharest Romania Home. Everything starts and ends here.
  • London United Kingdom
  • Copenhagen Denmark
  • Paris France
  • Lyon France
  • Dijon France The final year of the MBA, 2025–26.
  • Brussels Belgium
  • Prague Czechia
  • Vienna Austria
  • Budapest Hungary
  • Basel Switzerland
  • Geneva Switzerland
  • Rome Italy
  • Milan Italy
  • Naples Italy
  • Bari Italy
  • Madrid Spain
  • Barcelona Spain
  • Palma de Mallorca Spain
  • Valletta Malta
  • Gozo Malta The island next door.
  • Zagreb Croatia
  • Zadar Croatia
  • Belgrade Serbia
  • Tirana Albania
  • Sofia Bulgaria
  • Varna Bulgaria
  • Veliko Tarnovo Bulgaria
  • Athens Greece
  • Halkidiki Greece
  • Thasos Greece
  • Corfu Greece
  • Zakynthos Greece
  • Istanbul Türkiye
  • Pamukkale Türkiye
  • Antalya Türkiye
  • Dubai United Arab Emirates
  • Bangkok Thailand
  • Chiang Mai Thailand
  • Chiang Rai Thailand
  • Phuket Thailand And Patong.
  • Siem Reap Cambodia Angkor Wat.
  • Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
  • Singapore Singapore

06 By the numbers

07 Education & awards

2024 2026

MBA

University of Bucharest · Université Bourgogne Europe

Business administration and management. Final year read in Dijon, in the first double-diploma cohort between the two universities.

2024 2026

MSc Computer Science

University of Bucharest

Database and software technologies. Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

2021 2024

BSc Computer Science

University of Bucharest

Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science.

2024

Smarthack

Innovation Award, sponsored by Adobe

Team Caesar SRL. Our algorithm scored highest of every entry in the competition.

08 Toolkit

Home turf
C# and .NET — ASP.NET Core, Entity Framework, NHibernate, MVC.
Also fluent
C++, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, SQL.
Front end
React, Angular, HTML, CSS.
Around it
Azure, Git, GitHub.
Languages
Romanian (native), English (C1).