I started writing code at 14, hosting Minecraft and Unturned servers and scripting the plugins that ran them. That habit of taking something apart to see how it works never really left — it just moved from game servers to production auth flows.
Today I work as a Senior Help Desk Analyst at NTT DATA while finishing a Computer Science degree at Universitatea „Aurel Vlaicu" din Arad, and I build my own products on the side — GymCrew, a social fitness app, and SkillSwap, a marketplace for trading skills instead of money. Alongside the dev work, I've been stacking security credentials — ISC2 Candidate, TryHackMe, Cisco, several applied-security courses — because I'd rather find the exploit in my own app than have someone else find it first.
I'm fluent in Romanian, German and English, and comfortable documenting and shipping work in any of the three.
Two products currently in progress, and two teenage server projects that taught me most of what I still use today.
A fitness app for people who train better together. Most fitness apps track you — GymCrew tracks your crew, because consistency is easier when your gym friends can see your streak and call you out when it slips.
Shipping in September: a marketplace where people trade skills instead of money. You teach guitar, someone teaches you pasta — no course fees. It includes listings, a filterable marketplace with best-match sorting, swap requests with daily limits, realtime private chat, two-way ratings, a leaderboard, and Stripe Checkout for Premium with a signature-verified webhook.
Before either of those, there were two self-hosted game servers and a lot of trial and error.
Hosted an Unturned server, XtremeZone Romania, and coded plugins including /vault — a system letting players safely store items before logging out, accessible only to them, with auto-save on login.
Created and hosted a Minecraft Factions server with its own ranks, player economy, and preset kits. Coded plugins in Java, including /heal on a 120-second cooldown, compiled to .jar and loaded straight into the server.
Fourteen certifications across security, cloud and frontend engineering — most earned in the past year alongside full-time work.
"It is my genuine pleasure to recommend Roland for a position in cyber security, resilience, or as a front-end engineer. As his former trainer and quality coach, I closely observed both his technical growth and his professional mindset — Roland demonstrated a strong command of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React and Redux, and applied them creatively rather than just theoretically. He tackles problems methodically, breaking them into manageable parts and exploring multiple pathways before converging on the most efficient option. His calm, solution-oriented approach made him a trusted peer among his fellow trainees."