Denis
Turcanu
23-year-old Computer Science student who loves building web apps and tinkering with servers. Looking for opportunities to work on real projects and keep learning.
Featured Projects
Some of the stuff I've built - from web apps to infrastructure projects
Built my own hybrid infrastructure that mixes my homelab with cloud servers. Started with TrueNAS Scale but switched to Proxmox VE when I wanted better VM support. I'm running 10+ services across containers and VMs with ZFS RAID storage. Got 3 VPS instances on Oracle Cloud: one runs Pangolin to tunnel into my homelab through Tailscale (basically my own Cloudflare Tunnel), another runs Nginx for reverse proxy stuff and SSL certificates, and the third has AdGuard Home for DNS filtering with DNS-over-HTTPS that connects to my OpenWRT router. Also set up a Proxmox Backup Server off-site for automated backups. The cool part is I can access everything remotely without opening any ports, keep things segmented for security, and have proper monitoring on everything with Discord Webhooks.
A gift management platform I built with my team using the T3 Stack. I worked mostly on the backend stuff and set up testing with SonarQube to keep the code quality in check. Also built the entire email system from scratch using Nodemailer - handles things like password resets, account notifications, and event reminders. Pretty cool seeing it all come together!
A Flutter game I threw together in one night before exams using AI. Honestly just wanted to see how fast I could build something with AI help - it's a simple color-matching game where two balls need to hit the right colored gates. Definitely rough around the edges but was a fun experiment in rapid prototyping with AI tools!
Built this PHP web app with a classmate for our Web Technologies class - it displays movie actors and their awards. We used it as an excuse to practice full-stack development and play around with Docker deployment and server configuration. Good learning experience getting hands-on with the deployment side of things.
Built a simple TCP-based messaging system for my computer networks class. Got to mess around with socket programming and multithreading to handle multiple clients connecting at once. Good introduction to low-level networking stuff in C++.
Experience
Some early experiences that helped shape my development journey
Web Developer Intern
Erasmus Student Network Portugal
Worked on building a company website with service info and contact forms. My first real experience with international collaboration and web development - learned a ton!
Work & Travel Experience
Various Positions
Spent time working in the US in different roles. Great for building communication skills and learning to adapt to new environments quickly.
Ready to Contribute
Looking for internship or junior developer opportunities where I can apply my skills and keep growing
Languages: Romanian (Native) • English (Advanced)