Octavian Rusu

Web Developer

TLDR

Actively building opendataset, a git-inspired server that enables collaborative dataset creation with a user-friendly React interface and personalwiki, a browser tool for notes and scripting, soon with a C++17 runtime.
Working freelance, designed and built stejar.casa and claritatea.ro.
Experience in web design, magazine layout and poster design.
Actively working on a ARM training and inference lib in C/C++ for low-power electronics with a focus on satellites and a AVX & CUDA C++17 tensor lib. Competent in statistical learning and data modeling, PyTorch, Numpy, Pandas. Built a financial market simulator.
Built a SLAM lib for DIY HMDs odometry tracking and self-driving models. Limited experience in computer graphics, built a game engine.
contact@octavian.work

Projects

OpenDataset: Crowd-sourcing dataset creation

Express.js, React.js, React Router, PostgreSQL, TS, Pug

Webserver managing user sessions, JSON or CSV contributions, continuous integration user-defined testing, etc. Advanced cacheing and logging.

PersonalWiki: scripting and note-taking

Django, Express.js, TypeScript, React.js, REST

Cell-based UI that renders Markdown and LaTeX. C/C++ runtime in the works.

stejar.casa - real estate presentation

Three.js, jQuery, Google Maps API, LazyLoad

Duplex presentation done with 3D models, interactive image viewers, etc.

Work Experience

2023 : Freelance Web Design, for local business Pristine Houses

2019 - 2020: Graphic Designer and Web Developer, Octav Bancila Highschool, designed and built the magazine website claritatea.ro, designed two volumes of the Claritatea magazine and one volume of the ArtEast magazine.

2018 - 2019: Graphic Designer for the Erasmus+ program My City, My Home, My Responsibility

Education

2020 - 2023: Virtual and Augmented Reality Development BSc (Hons) at the University of Portsmouth, UK

Completed courses such as:

UX / UI
Mobile Application Development ( PWAs )
XR Development (convnet facial and hand tracking, SLAM , WebXR , UE4 )
Programming (SICP,LISP,FPGAs, x86 C and Assembly,Networking, etc.)
Math (multiple view geometry, tensor arithmetic, physics simulation, etc.)
3D Modeling and Animation (in Maya, 3DS Max and Blender)
Agile Methodologies

Personal Projects

Tensorlib: general-purpose tensor library.

C++, C, AVX, CUDA

General use header-only tensor library. Similar interface to pytorch or tinygrad.

SLAM with EKF

C++, Eigen, OpenCV, Pangolin

Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping algorithm with an extended kalman filter. It creates a 3D environment map from one or more cameras.

Game Engine with Procedurally Generated Terrain

C++, OpenGL, GLUT

Game Engine C++ implementation from scratch with Perlin Noise procedurally generated terrain, .OBJ file loader, model viewer, collision detection, primitive generation, etc.