Denis
Turcanu
CS student at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University. I spend most of my free time running services on my homelab and finding new things to break and fix. Looking for an internship where I can work on real problems.
Current Stack
Infrastructure
Backend
Frontend
Tools
Featured Projects
Some of the stuff I've built - from web apps to infrastructure projects
My personal playground for learning infrastructure and networking. The setup is built around a local Proxmox server running VMs and containers on ZFS, plus an OPNsense VM. I bridged it with a few Oracle Cloud VPS instances that handle secure DNS, automated deployments from Github, and public routing. To keep my home network secure, I don't open any local ports. Instead, public traffic hits the Oracle VPS and gets securely routed back to my homelab over WireGuard, acting as my own self-hosted Cloudflare Tunnel. Honestly, building, breaking, and fixing this environment has been my best source of hands-on experience with Linux administration and server security.
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.
PHP web app built with a classmate that displays movie actors and their award histories. We self-hosted it instead of using a managed platform: Docker container behind Nginx as a reverse proxy, with Cloudflare handling DNS and SSL. We spent more time on the deployment setup than the app itself.
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
Web Design Intern
Erasmus Student Network Portugal
Travelled to Barcelos, Portugal for three weeks as part of an Erasmus programme. The whole class was split across local companies and tasked with building a website for them from scratch. Mine was delivered and graded at the end of the programme.
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.
Get in touch
Open to backend or infrastructure internships.
Languages: Romanian (Native) • English (Advanced)