Cristian Gatu

I'm a Senior Full-Stack Engineer based in Iași, Romania, with 7+ years of experience building and scaling API-driven systems for fintech, supply chain, and digital publishing companies. My day-to-day centers on React, Next.js, Node.js, GraphQL, and PostgreSQL, but I care just as much about the system around the code — architecture, performance, and the cloud infrastructure it runs on.

I've led legacy rewrites, built products from scratch, and spent a lot of time in the unglamorous but critical work of keeping distributed systems reliable. I like partnering closely with architects on system design, and I enjoy mentoring junior engineers — a good code review is one of the best ways I know to level up a team.

Outside of client work, I keep a couple of side projects running, including this site, and I'm always looking for the next interesting problem to dig into.