Florin Petre

Hello and welcome! I'm Florin Petre, a web developer in NYC. I was raised in Brooklyn, New York and attended the NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering. While studying there I received my degree in Electrical Engineering and got my first taste of programming. After working in the IT field for 4 years I rediscovered my passion for computer programming and decided to dive head first into software development. While I'm new to the field I am passionate and a quick learner. Feel free to look below at some of the projects I have made and take a look at my resume.

Things I Can Do

I am constantly learning new languages and libraries. Below are the ones I currently have the most experience with.

• Rails
• Backbone.JS
• SQL
• HTML5
• CSS3
• Jquery

Projects

Below are some projects I have worked on.

Yelp-Clone

A clone of Yelp, built with Ruby on Rails and Backbone.js

• A one page app using backbone
• Iplemented custom SQL search and pagination
• Stores user profile pictures on Amazon S3, using Paperclip
• Implemented singin in backbone via custom AJAX requests


• Live Github

Asteroids

Classic arcade game in the browser with JS and HTML5 canvas.

• Used vector algebra for ship movement and bullet calculations


• Live Github

Chat-App

A chat room app, built using node.js and the socket.io library.

• Implemented the ability to create/join rooms and change user names


• Live Github

Command Line Minesweeper

Minesweeper implemented in ruby ran via command line.

• implemented save feature by storing game state as YAML in a text file
• uses breadth first search when searching for adjacent tiles


• Github

Resume