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“I find a couple of hours of daily walking are a major productivity boost.” Our today’s interviewee Razvan Coca is a C Developer and has been in the freelancing business for six month now. Originally he started out as a Senior Researcher at The National Institute of Material Physics in Bucharest. After working as a Software Developer for a few years, he now enjoys the advantages of being a freelancer and puts all his productivity in implementing some of his own ideas and realizing his clients’ projects…
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Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • “I find a couple of hours of daily walking are a major productivity boost.” Our today’s interviewee Razvan Coca is a C++ Developer and has been in the freelancing business for six month now. Originally he started out as a Senior Researcher at The National Institute of Material Physics in Bucharest. After working as a Software Developer for a few years, he now enjoys the advantages of being a freelancer and puts all his productivity in implementing some of his own ideas and realizing his clients’ projects…
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 1) First off, can you tell us a bit about yourself? • My name is Razvan Coca. I’m from Bucharest, Romania. I am a Linux C++ developer with a physics degree. I usually do networking and protocols-related jobs as a freelancer. I also do algorithm-related jobs and code for physics simulations. • I’ve been freelancing for 6 months.
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 2) If you would search for your profile on Google, which are the three keywords you would type in the search bar? • My freelancer profile on Freelancermap can be found through searching for “freelancermap linuxc++”. Other searches that would point towards me are: mql4py, sFSMlib, asio-codegen, xmm-sum
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 3) What was your inspiration and when did you actually decide to become a freelancer? • The startup I was working for the last year went out of business. At the same time I had some ideas that I wanted to see working. Freelancing provided a flexible balance between implementing my ideas and work for a living.
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 4) What kind of services have your clients asked you to provide? • My clients asked for Linux/Windows C/C++ code. Topics were: medical applications and protocols, kernel-level network configuration in Linux, physics code, data mining/classifiers, storage.
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 5) Do you use other freelancers or companies to provide skills that you don’t possess? • I didn’t ask other freelancers to work for me yet. I might do so, when I’ll have a product that is popular enough to need many features added quickly to it.
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 6) Now tell us, how do you find new clients that are interested in your services? • I only used freelancing websites so far and I’ve been contacted for help every now and then.
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 7) What about freelancermap.com? Can you tell us a little bit about your experience with our IT-network? • Freelancermap has a clean/clear interface, and is full of jobs posted by serious clients. Not all of them are remote-work positions but jobs descriptions are very accurate and professional.
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 8) How do you set yourself apart from your competitors? What makes you special? • I have a long work experience in telecom industry, a strong academic background, a keen interest in solving problems in a proper way and a bit of imagination. I still like math and it looks that I learn more of it every day.
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 9) What are the top three books, blogs or magazines you read to stay up to date in the IT-market? • I enjoy reading DrDobbs Journal, checking isocpp.org site regularly, watching cppcon presentations or boostcon presentations. I try to learn from the best.
Razvan Coca – Linux C++ Developer • 10) Freestyle! Is there anything you would like to tell our readers? • I find a couple of hours of daily walking (with or without sunshine) are a major productivity boost.
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