Maxim Alexei - Resume

About me

👋 I am yet another FAF student who enjoys being part of this world where the technology keeps flourishing by each day. Also, I am into OOP, FOSS, Linux, Web Development, and I really enjoy watching/reading about tech/coding related content, while sipping from my cup of warm seaberry tea. As importantly, I aspire to work as a chill back-end/full-stack engineer, while tinkering with my personal homelab, as a hobby.

Education

01/09/2023 - CURRENT

  • 📜 Bachelor of Science English - Taught Honours Programme in Software Engineering
  • 🏫 Technical University of Moldova, Faculty of Computers, Informatics and Microelectronics
  • 📍 Chisinau, Moldova
💡 My favorite course's been the OOP one, as the labs were enjoyable, and the fact that the teacher played Kalimba at the last lesson was truly fun & memorable.

01/09/2020 - 31/05/2023

  • 📜 Baccalaureate Diploma
  • 🏫 Public Institution Theoretical Lyceum "Gaudeamus"
  • 📍 Chisinau, Moldova
💡 I really enjoyed Geography, as a fun memory I have about it is that we've had this interdisciplinary task where we'd built a website, as a visiting card, for a country, Japan in my case.

Projects

🌍 CŌNTRY.APP | Wordle-like Country Guessing Game

May 2026 - Full-Stack SPA Integration and State Management

  • Developed a full-stack, browser-based geographic guessing game utilizing a Svelte 5 SPA and an ASP.NET Core backend.
  • Built a local-first frontend architecture, leveraging IndexedDB for game state persistence and utilizing custom Svelte components to interact with D3 map visualizations.
  • Secured backend with role-based access control, managing authenticated sessions via secure access/refresh cookies and XSRF token validation.
  • Configured Docker Compose for seamless local development, and generated interactive Swagger API documentation for endpoint testing.

💻 GO2WEB | CLI Tool for Web Browsing

Apr 2026 - Low-Level Networking and CLI Tooling

  • Built a fully functional command-line web browser in C# to interface with web servers entirely from scratch.
  • Implemented custom HTTP/1.1 and HTTPS communication directly over raw TCP sockets, completely bypassing standard high-level HTTP client libraries.
  • Engineered a robust request handler capable of automatic redirect resolution, content negotiation, and local response caching via ETag validation.
  • Parsed raw HTML payloads and rendered clean, formatted output (tables, lists, text) directly into the terminal interface.

🍓 DULCETI.ME | Statically Generated Landing Page

Mar 2026 - Frontend Fundamentals, SSG, and Headless CMS

  • Created a highly performant, statically generated landing page using Astro, structuring semantic HTML and styling the interface with Tailwind CSS.
  • Configured and deployed Sveltia CMS as a headless backend, enabling non-technical users to securely manage media assets and edit site content directly via GitHub commits.
  • Implemented full internationalization (i18n) architecture, allowing visitors to instantly toggle content language based on their preference.
  • Managed version control and automated the build and deployment pipeline using GitHub Pages and GitHub Actions.

📚 BORROWBOOK.ME | Physical Book Borrowing & Tracking App

Nov 2025 - Backend Architecture, Security, Cloud Infrastructure

  • Engineered a secure REST API using Spring Boot 3, relying on PostgreSQL for persistent data and a dual Redis setup for high-speed caching and refresh token management.
  • Implemented strict security controls, including cookie-based JWT authentication, custom request rate-limiting, and XSRF protection, achieving an A+ rating on securityheaders.com.
  • Audited application security and tested for vulnerabilities using OWASP ZAP.
  • Designed a distributed deployment architecture, orchestrating the backend across Render, Redis Cloud, and Aiven Cloud infrastructure.

AI Tools & Workflow

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