The Builder's Path
The first foundation stones were laid in 1999 — in a small Romanian city, where a 15-year-old started building alongside his family at Tridan Network, their Internet Service Provider. Laying cable, configuring routers, serving a community. The builder was being forged.
That early immersion in technology and service sparked something permanent. By the time a Bachelor's degree in Cybernetics arrived from the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, years had already been spent building, breaking, and rebuilding systems.
A Master's in IT&C Security deepened the understanding — not how systems work, but how to make them resilient. This foundation proved invaluable when architecting solutions for the world's most demanding organizations: IBM, Unilever, Heineken, Lidl.
In 2017, Forbes Romania recognized this journey with the prestigious 30 Under 30 distinction. Before that, Accelerole — a SaaS platform co-founded to help enterprises manage freelancers at scale — earned $16,000+ in grants from Google and AWS, served clients like Unilever, Heineken, and OMV, and generated over $400K in revenue. Then a Microsoft grant of €150K for Huddle and KPMG as lead investor. Real products, real users, real institutional trust. But the real foundation runs deeper — a daughter's miraculous healing through prayer and the intercession of the saints, from a rare disease with no known treatment. Medicine had no answer and one came anyway. That event reshaped everything. Every venture, every line of code, every product became part of one unified vision — the Magnum Opus.
