💻 Backend developer at heart 🦀 Currently falling down the Rust, cloud-native and self-hosting rabbit holes
name: Ricea Raul
studying: MSc Cyber Security & Machine Learning (Ovidius University)
focus: [ backend, distributed systems, cloud-native, security ]
daily_driver: CachyOS (Arch) + Niri (Wayland)
homelab: Proxmox -> RKE2 Kubernetes -> ArgoCD GitOps
currently_learning: [ Rust, Go, AWS, Azure, Terraform ]
off_the_clock: [ CS2, GTA V / RageMP, anime ]
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A distributed Indicators of Compromise platform with privacy-preserving lookups via OPRF cryptographic blinding.
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A job-scheduling library built on Quartz.NET with a React dashboard for monitoring and managing jobs.
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Linux desktop tools — a Tauri game-save backup utility and an audio-routing app for Wayland setups.
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📚 Earlier projects
- TrueTeamManager (Bachelor's thesis) — Agile management platform with a rich role/permission system, sprint & team management, performance analytics and task-estimation voting.
LaravelVue.jsMySQL - GTA V Map Leaflet — interactive web map of the GTA V world.
JavaScriptLeaflet.js— repo - CoinGeckoClient — npm package wrapping the CoinGecko API.
Node.jsTypeScript
When I'm off the clock, I run a small but opinionated homelab as my personal learning ground:
- Proxmox virtualization hosting an RKE2 Kubernetes cluster
- GitOps with ArgoCD + Helm, ingress via Traefik, TLS through cert-manager with a private CA
- Self-hosted n8n, Keycloak, Pi-hole, monitoring with Prometheus / Grafana, and assorted experiments
- Daily driver: CachyOS with the Niri Wayland compositor on a hybrid Intel/NVIDIA laptop
