# Resume (LLM-Optimized)

## Variants

One page, three resumes. Shared facts are below. Each variant adds the headline, summary, skills, and highlights for that role.

- staff (default): https://raulp.co/resume/?role=staff
- senior: https://raulp.co/resume/?role=senior
- devrel: https://raulp.co/resume/?role=devrel

## Candidate

- full_name: Raul Popadineți
- location: Timișoara, Romania
- email: raulp@hey.com
- website: https://raulp.co
- github: https://github.com/raulpopadineti
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raulpopadineti
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@RaulOnRails
- writing: https://world.hey.com/raulp
- total_experience_years: 15+

## Experience

### Sunergos

- role: Solopreneur
- start_date: 2017
- end_date: present
- location: Remote
- responsibilities: Build and launch products around AI workflows, remote work, and local community needs.
- responsibilities: Own product discovery, engineering, and go-to-market execution.
- platform: eBaza is the OAuth identity provider for the sibling apps. Deploys go sandbox, then production. Error tracking is self-hosted.

### Gumroad

- role: Senior Software Engineer -> Project Lead (Flexile, final 6 months)
- start_date: 2021-03
- end_date: 2025
- location: Remote
- team_scope: Led 6-8 engineers as Project Lead.
- achievement: Built content editor now handling 100% of GMV since 2024-03.
- achievement: Shipped Year in Review workflows for 50k+ creators.
- achievement: Built automated US tax filing workflows for thousands of contractors and investors.

### Hubstaff

- role: Senior Software Engineer -> Team Lead
- start_date: 2015
- end_date: 2020-10
- location: Remote
- team_scope: Led 5 engineers across 5 time zones.
- achievement: Owned 1-on-1s, performance reviews, retrospectives, and CTO-facing velocity reporting.

### Codenapse

- role: Co-founder and Programmer
- start_date: 2012
- end_date: 2015
- location: Romania
- achievement: Built and delivered Ruby on Rails applications for US and EU clients.
- project: Whodini (2013-03 to 2015-12), mobile marketing-in-a-box product.

### BigWeld

- role: Rails Programmer
- start_date: 2011-03
- end_date: 2014-06
- location: Remote
- achievement: Built and maintained Ruby on Rails e-commerce platform generating $500k+ ARR.

### Eloquentix

- role: Technical Support
- start_date: 2010-07
- end_date: 2013-09
- achievement: Managed customer issue triage, troubleshooting, and day-to-day technical support.
- achievement: Explained technical problems in plain words.

## Education

### Politehnica University of Timișoara

- degree: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
- title_awarded: Software Engineer (inginer)
- faculty: Faculty of Automation and Computers
- start_date: 2008
- end_date: 2012
- location: Timișoara, Romania

## Selected Projects

- name: Git Digest
- url: https://gitdigest.ai/
- description: Automated code reports to help teams ship faster.
- category: AI workflows, codebase reporting, B2B SaaS

- name: OG Pilot
- url: https://ogpilot.com/
- description: Dynamic Open Graph image generation focused on growth.
- category: Design automation, growth tooling, MCP connector, WordPress plugin

- name: Calm Companies
- url: https://calmcompanies.club/
- description: Weekly curated job openings at companies with healthy work culture.
- category: Newsletter, jobs

- name: eBaza
- url: https://ebaza.ro/
- description: Renewal reminders and obligation tracking for Romanian drivers (RCA, ITP, Rovinieta).
- category: Insurance, renewal reminders, SEO, OAuth identity provider

- name: Squingo
- url: https://squingo.com/
- description: Event formats designed for competitive fun.
- category: Consumer product

- name: One-off Invoice
- url: https://oneoffinvoice.com/
- description: Streamlined invoicing for fast client work.
- category: Productivity tool

## Variant: Lead / Staff Software Engineer

- id: staff
- url: https://raulp.co/resume/?role=staff
- headline: Lead / Staff Software Engineer
- target_roles: Staff Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Engineering Manager (hands-on)

- summary: 15+ years building and scaling web products with US companies.
- summary: Hands-on engineering, systems thinking, product ownership, and people leadership.
- summary: Gumroad (4 years) and Hubstaff (5 years), with team-lead ownership in both.
- summary: At Sunergos, built the shared platform: eBaza OAuth for sibling apps, sandbox-to-production deploys, self-hosted error tracking.

- core_skills: Product engineering and execution
- core_skills: Technical leadership and team management
- core_skills: Remote-first and asynchronous collaboration
- core_skills: Ruby on Rails, Next.js, React, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, API design, automation

- impact: Gumroad content editor powering 100% of GMV since 2024-03.
- impact: Year in Review workflows for 50k+ creators.
- impact: Automated US tax filing for thousands of contractors and investors, built alone.
- impact: Project Lead for 6-8 engineers on Flexile (final 6 months).
- impact: Team Lead for 5 Hubstaff engineers across 5 time zones (1-on-1s, reviews, retrospectives, CTO velocity reporting).
- impact: Rails e-commerce platform at BigWeld with $500k+ ARR.

- keywords: staff engineer, technical lead, engineering manager, ruby on rails, react, next.js, typescript, postgresql, remote leadership, product engineering, gmv, saas, oauth

## Variant: Senior Software Engineer

- id: senior
- url: https://raulp.co/resume/?role=senior
- headline: Senior Software Engineer
- target_roles: Senior Software Engineer, Senior Full-Stack Engineer

- summary: 15+ years shipping web products for US companies, from small tools to products used by millions.
- summary: Hands-on full-stack engineer. Picks a small scope and ships it.
- summary: 4 years at Gumroad and 5 years at Hubstaff, still writing the code. Team lead was a short stretch in each.

- core_skills: End-to-end product delivery
- core_skills: Pragmatic architecture
- core_skills: Background jobs, payments, third-party APIs, OAuth/SSO
- core_skills: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, Next.js, Astro, PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker/Kamal

- impact: Gumroad content editor powering 100% of GMV since 2024-03.
- impact: Year in Review workflows for 50k+ creators.
- impact: Automated US tax filing for thousands of contractors and investors, built alone.
- impact: Rails e-commerce platform at BigWeld with $500k+ ARR.
- impact: Ships each Sunergos product end to end: scope, code, billing, and support.

- keywords: senior software engineer, full-stack, ruby on rails, react, next.js, astro, typescript, postgresql, redis, docker, kamal, oauth, payments, saas

## Variant: Developer Relations

- id: devrel
- url: https://raulp.co/resume/?role=devrel
- headline: Developer Relations
- target_roles: Developer Relations, Developer Advocate, Community Lead

- summary: Software engineer who teaches builders in public: meetups, written recaps, and video.
- summary: 15+ years shipping web products for US companies, including 4 years at Gumroad and 5 years at Hubstaff.
- summary: Career started in technical support. Still explains hard problems in plain words.
- summary: Docs and integrations include the OG Pilot MCP connector and WordPress plugin.

- core_skills: Community building and event hosting
- core_skills: Technical writing and video
- core_skills: Developer empathy and plain-language explanation
- core_skills: Docs, MCP connectors, and plugins
- core_skills: Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, Next.js

- community: Host of Indie TM, an in-person meetup for indie builders in Timișoara, every two weeks, since January 2026. 16+ editions.
- community: Each edition becomes a written recap with practical advice on https://indie.md/. The site is open source at https://github.com/indie-tm/indie.md.
- community: YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@RaulOnRails. Videos about the apps and the solopreneur journey.
- community: Long-form writing at https://world.hey.com/raulp, including joining Gumroad and leaving four years later.
- community: Open source: Scrappy (https://github.com/sunergos-ro/scrappy), a browser scraper in Go, and indie.md.

- impact: Creator-facing Gumroad content editor powering 100% of GMV since 2024-03, plus Year in Review for 50k+ creators.
- impact: Remote Hubstaff team of 5 across 5 time zones, kept aligned with written updates, reviews, and retrospectives.
- impact: Technical support at Eloquentix: triage plus plain-language explanations.

- keywords: developer relations, developer advocate, community, technical writing, youtube, meetup, indie hackers, documentation, mcp, wordpress, ruby on rails