Silviu Stroe – Mobile App Development Consultant

My name is Silviu Stroe and I’m a software consultant, specialized in hybrid, PWA mobile, and web app development. I’m the founder of one of the first VPN services in Romania, RoTunneling, I run the Brainic agency and I’m a member of Yahoo – Wall of Fame and Nokia – Hall of Fame. I’m also love bleeding edge technologies and new challenges.

2009

• discovering the Internet at age of 15 via WAP (Orange WAP Unlimited)
• started the RoTunneling(.forumd.biz) Romanian WAP forum, which will be the biggest community ~500 active users
• started to learn a programming language – PHP
• start high school at National College “Dinicu Golescu”
• first Internet subscription (PPPoE)

2010

• orange Romania removes the WAP Unlimited offer
• a user (“blu3angel”) from my community forum explained a trick about how to enable this option again; folk from the RST Center community helped me with an AutoIt interface to keep the method semi-private and also available for the community; someone announced Orange and they killed forever the option.
• after gaining some PHP, MySQL, and Linux knowledge, I’ve decided to start my own business, RoTunneling; Many thanks to my old friend from the RoTunneling community, Leonard Burdulea which has contributed with development (Visual Basic, PHP).
  The service will grow to 2000 users
• being a freelancer

2012

• on 13th of November 2012, after almost 2 and a half years, from personal considers, RoTunneling was taken by Redshift IT, a company led by Bogdan Torcescu, an old friend from the Romanian Security Center community
• consolidation of programming knowledge

2013

• planned to move and start the college in Denmark at VIA University College where I’ve been admitted; the plan has failed
• moved to Pitești
• start faculty at University of Pitești

2014

• moved to Bucharest
• my first job, recommended by Bogdan (which I’ve met for the first time and will be colleagues), at an affiliate marketing startup platform
• moved at my childhood dream faculty, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest
• found a vulnerability in Yahoo! website
• started learning hybrid mobile technologies

2017

• started my own business, focused on developing mobile and web apps
• moved to Brașov
• worked for 2 months at WebDollar cryptocurrency

2018

• found a vulnerability in the Nokia network

2019

• found an IDOR vulnerability in one of the biggest mobile providers in Romania

2020

• rebranded my agency to Brainic, a mobile app development agency, built with a fresh, human-centric business vision