Bercaru Robert
Fullstack developer, Bucharest
I like the hard parts of building software: real-time sync, search that understands code, and AI that runs right in the browser.
By day I build web and mobile apps at ChessCoders with React, Next.js, React Native and Node.js. I've collected four prizes at hackathons and national contests, including first place at FIICODE 2025, and I'm now doing a Master's in Information Systems at ASE Bucharest.
Things I've made
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Pathly · 1st place, FIICODE 2025
A live map of your friends. Locations, chat and alerts update in real time over WebSockets, and it installs like a native app that keeps working offline. Built for FIICODE 2025, where it took first place.
React, Node.js, MongoDB, WebSockets
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Confera
Runs an academic conference from the first submission to the final decision. Authors, reviewers and organizers each get their own dashboard, notifications send themselves, and every change ships through CI/CD.
Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, AWS S3
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Seekr
Code search that gets both
getUserByIdand “where do we handle login”. It mixes keyword search with a small neural model running on your machine, indexes a repo in under a second, answers in about 20 ms, and your code never leaves your machine.Rust, Tantivy, ONNX · source
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next-maia
Chess AI that plays like a person, not an engine. It runs the Maia2 neural network in the browser to predict the move a player of any rating would actually make, ships with a 3,600-line opening book and needs no server.
TypeScript, ONNX Runtime Web · 2,700+ downloads in the past year · source · npm
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CodeRave Radio
A radio station with no DJ and no playlist. An AI writes every track as code, FFmpeg renders it and Icecast streams it live, non-stop.
TypeScript, Node.js, FFmpeg, Icecast, Docker
Work
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ChessCoders · Fullstack Developer2024 – now
I build web and mobile apps across the whole stack, from the MongoDB schema to the React Native screen, and lead user-facing features with product and design. I also hunt down slow endpoints and own the CI/CD that ships everything to AWS.
TypeScript, React, Next.js, React Native, Node.js, MongoDB, Docker, AWS
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Nagarro · Web Development Intern2022 – 2023
Seven months, fully remote: from the fundamentals to shipping Angular single-page apps in an Agile team.
Angular, TypeScript, REST APIs
Skills
- LanguagesTypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust, Java
- FrontendReact, Next.js, React Native, Expo, Angular, Tailwind CSS
- BackendNode.js, Express, Spring Boot, Laravel, REST, WebSockets
- DataPostgreSQL, MongoDB
- DevOpsAWS, Docker, GitHub Actions, CI/CD, DigitalOcean, Linux
Prizes
- Vibe Coding Award, VibeHack2026
- 1st place, FIICODE Finals2025
- 2nd place, FIICODE Finals2023
- 3rd place, InfoEducație National Phase2022
Education
- MSc Information Systems, ASE Bucharest2026 – 2028
- BSc Economic Informatics, ASE Bucharest2023 – 2026
Contact
If it's an interesting problem, I'd like to hear about it.