The curiosity that never stopped
It all started with one question: how does an idea end up running on someone else’s screen? I started building to find out — and never stopped.
About
Hi, I’m Ion Rusu
- Full-stack developer
- Web architect
- Founder of Bitnoda
I started Bitnoda on a simple conviction: good ideas deserve to become real products. For more than 5 years I have been building software end to end — from architecture and data to interface and deployment.
No middlemen here. You talk directly to the engineer who builds your product.
- years of experience
- 5+
- TUIASI, Iași
- 2021–2025
- markets served
- RO · MD · EU
My journey
From curiosity to Bitnoda
Eight chapters tied together by one thread: turning ideas into products that work. Every project below taught me something I now use in your product.
University and the first e-voluntar
Four years at the Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iași. My bachelor’s thesis was the first version of the e-voluntar platform — an idea I kept pushing forward, all the way to a product.
- e-voluntarthesis: the first version of the platform
Online stores with real payments
Online stores for clients: themes built from scratch, integrations and real card payments — where every checkout step counts.
- Biotiful Lifecustom Shopify theme (Liquid), Netopia payments, Judge.me and Omnisend
- FisherWaydigital-products shop: Laravel 11, Livewire, Filament, maib payments
Products with roles, flows and data
Marketplaces, dashboards, multi-user workflows: projects where the architecture matters more than any button.
- DriverHubcar-rental marketplace: Nuxt 3, Firebase, Supabase, MinIO, Docker + Traefik
- Acord Travelinteractive SVG map of job offers in the USA, GSAP dashboard, AWS ECR + Docker Swarm deploys
- e-voluntar.mdvolunteering platform with a kanban workflow: FastAPI + Nuxt 3
Services, queues and AI search
An HR/recruiting platform with AI search, under NDA: async APIs, messaging between services, AI-powered search and GitOps deploys on Kubernetes, with full monitoring.
- AI-powered HR platform (NDA)async FastAPI, Nuxt 4, NATS, Redis, SurrealDB, Telegram bot
Websites you want to explore
When a product has to be felt, not just read: 3D models that come apart on scroll, configurators and animations that tell a story — without sacrificing speed.
- SpaceBox3D landing page and configurator for modular houses, pure three.js, a Blender model that “explodes” on scroll
- phoenixmdcharity website for MAD-Aid, 3D hero with Vue + TresJS and GSAP
Desktop tools written in Rust
What I can’t find ready-made, I build. Fast, offline desktop apps that run on your own hardware — my lab for what comes next.
- VoxTyperoffline speech-to-text with Whisper on the GPU, a tray app
- MyInvoicedesktop invoicing app: Rust + Dioxus, SQLite
Bitnoda and a network of collaborators
Everything I have learned, in a single studio. I design the architecture, write code and coordinate a network of developers I work with — and you have a single point of contact: the engineer who builds.
Stack
A network, not a list
Technologies matter in how they connect. Hover over a node or pick one from the list to see where I used it and what it works with. No progress bars, no percentages.
11110 nodes
30 technologies, 6 areas, 21 connections
Pick a technology from the list or hover over a node: see where I used it and what it connects to.
How I work
Four rules I don’t negotiate
Not marketing promises — just how every project runs, from the first call to well after launch.
- 00
Architecture before code
Before the first line of code, I map out the system: data, flows, integrations, what has to scale and what doesn’t. Expensive decisions are made on paper, not in production.
- 01
Performance and SEO from day one
Speed and indexing are not a finishing touch. Pre-rendered pages, performance budgets, code that loads only when it is needed — as with neostil.md and its 64 pre-rendered routes.
- 10
Direct communication
You talk to the person who builds, not to a middleman. Questions get clear, direct answers — technical only when they need to be.
- 11
Incremental delivery
Small, visible steps: you watch the product grow on a staging environment, try it early and can change direction without drama or last-minute surprises.
Links
Where to find me
GitHub@ionrusu114Code, experiments and my own tools.(opens in a new tab)LinkedInion-rusu-discultuMy career, in short.(opens in a new tab)The contact form/contactI reply personally, no middlemen.
Prefer email? hello@bitnoda.team— the contact form is still the fastest way.