Staicu Alexandru Ovidiu

Summary

Senior full-stack engineer who directs AI coding agents at production quality - and catches their mistakes. I ship real features by supervising agentic CLIs (Claude Code, Cursor) wrapped in adversarial multi-agent review and runtime verification: I've delivered a full live game whose codebase was agent-built under my review, caught agent failures that would have shipped, and built my own portable MCP-based context/tooling layer that follows me across machines. Underneath the AI workflow is 13+ years of real engineering (React/Next/Node + a .NET/SQL decade) and a 30+ game real-money platform, so the judgment steering the agents is grounded.

Core Skills

• AI-assisted dev: Agentic coding CLIs as a daily tool - Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini/Copilot CLI - feature delivery, multi-agent code review, runtime verification
• Languages: TypeScript, JavaScript, C#, C++, SQL
• Frontend: React, Next.js, PixiJS, WebGL, HTML/CSS - real-time game UIs & rendering
• Backend: Node.js, Express, .NET / ASP.NET, REST APIs, socket.io
• Cloud / DevOps: AWS (ECS Fargate), Pulumi (IaC), Vercel, CI/CD, Git (GitLab / Bitbucket)
• Game / Real-time: PixiJS, WebGL, iGaming concepts (RNG / RTP / RGS), Unity / C#
• Data: Microsoft T-SQL, MySQL - queries, optimization, reporting, live-game config
• Also: Angular, jQuery, Linux (Ubuntu, Arch)
• Spoken languages: English (advanced), French (basic)

Experience

• AI-supervised delivery: shipped a full live game (World Champions) whose codebase I built by directing AI coding agents under my own review; caught agent failures that would have shipped (a no-op release that never rebuilt; an unimplemented rollback policy), pushed back on wrong claims, and wrapped agents in adversarial multi-agent review + runtime verification before shipping.
• AI operating layer: sole author of an internal AI-context / tooling setup for the team, plus a personal, portable MCP-based context layer that follows me across machines - the operating layer I run agents through.
• Backend & infra: migrated a game backend off a hosted BaaS onto a self-owned Express service; built real-time game servers (Express + socket.io + RGS) and a deterministic seed-based round simulator; ran AWS (ECS Fargate) via Pulumi.
• Judgment under money constraints: fixed a floating-point payout bug and root-caused a "poisoned-round" incident down to per-scenario wallet impact - the correctness calls the agents kept getting wrong.
• Ownership & team: top-contributor ownership across the platform's game repos; sole author of an internal onboarding tool (golden + integration tests); mentored 3 developers.
• Performance & hardening: rebuilt asset loading for 5–10 → 40–60 FPS gains and hardened clients against real-money exploits.

• Jigsaw Artistry - 2D puzzle game; 1,000+ unique puzzles, achievements, missions, trivia.
• Astroblast Rampage - 3D arcade space shooter built from scratch; heavily optimized for low-end devices.
• The Shrouded Parchments - 3D RPG released on Windows & Linux; full-cycle development.

• Contributed to multiple released titles (Scratch Cards Pro, Plinko World, Money Slots, and others); integrated PayPal payouts, Firebase and PlayFab across GitLab / Bitbucket pipelines.

• Delivered personal and client Unity projects across 2D/3D; collaborated on the released title Zombie War (Divine Code Productions).

• Built Sales Force Automation software for pharmaceutical sales: real-time stock, order processing, sales management. Stack: .NET (C#), Angular, HTML/CSS/JS/jQuery.

• Direct Vision (2017–2019) - enhanced the WBE Travel platform (incl. mobile), integrating multiple XML/JSON travel providers. .NET (C#), MVC, SQL, Angular.
• Softelligence (2015–2016) - agency full-stack delivery for fintech clients (Idea Bank, Orange, Ocean Credit): online crediting, reporting, DB/procedure optimization. .NET, T-SQL, JS/jQuery, Razor.
• Indaco Systems (2014–2015) - led a team of 4 on an online insurance policy platform (Astra Asigurări, Slovakia branch); performance, security, reporting (Crystal Reports).
• Inteli Management Systems (2012–2013) - reporting, SQL procedures and data-migration packs for a public-sector tax application. C#, ASP.NET, SQL.

Education

University of Bucharest - Mathematics & Informatics (2007–2012)