Alexandru Smeu

From small Arduino projects to REST clients in C, I worked on all kinds of projects . I have been working with C in a way or another since high-school. It still is my preferred "go to" language when working with embedded, low-spec machines or where performance and resource consumption are critical.

Even though I started programming with C++ around the same time as I did with C, in my professional experience, I had to work mainly with C. Now I tend to use modern C++ feature more and more.

It quickly became my favorite part of developing cross-platform projects, having a clear build system and dependencis,

Even though Java is rarely my go to choice I've had some projects involving Java development. From providing a Java interface over a native static library to quick services using spring boot for rapid prototyping.

I've been using Python for testing my main projects, creating mock services or clients or even generating C\C++ code. One of the most complex projects involving Python is a script used to translate all the database creation scripts(tables, procedures, triggers, etc) from IBM DB2 to PostgreSQL. Although my experience with Python is not vast, I always enjoy using it because the amount of functionality you get for the code you write.

I'm an old user of VirtualBox and a big fan of virtual machines. I started replacing the "hard-coded" virtual machines with Vagrant boxes for build systems in my projects. I now have stable, predictable versions of the virtual machines, consuming less resources on my dev. machine.

For me unit testing is an integral part of software development. Although I have been testing my code for far longer than 3 years, this time-frame is relevant for the Catch2 library.