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I'm a software developer for hire. Check out my CV.

My customers asked me to do Java for clients and servers, iOS apps in Objective-C or Swift and Python models.

My public work has revolved around NetBeans: I report bugs and submit patches. I received commit rights to the NetBeans repository back when Oracle owned it and continued being a committer under Apache Software Foundation.

• 2024
  • January: Started working for DataChat
• 2023
  • September: Managed to open source from within Intel the VSCode TCF debugger
• 2022
  • September: Started working for Intel.
• 2021
  • Worked as a compiler engineer for CompilerWorks on a SQL transpiler for BigQuery, Snowflake, Presto, Hive, Spark, PostgreSQL and Teradata. CompilerWork joined Google Cloud.
• 2020
  • March: Tracking COVID19 numbers through the covid.410go.net website (source code).
  • February: Open source work on Quicksilver and Tablesaw.
  • January: Released OpenBeans 2019.12
  • January: Resurected the Clojure plugin Enclojure
• 2019
  • November: CoolBeans open-sourced under the OpenBeans name.
  • October: Created a proof of concept showing how a fresh install of NetBeans could be made to install a different plugin by controlling the network / proxy used which resulted in CVE-2019-17560 and CVE-2019-17561; fixed in NetBeans 11.3. Reported another issue, CVE not allocated yet.
  • October: Launched Mastodon.ro, a stock market site with basic machine learning predictions.
  • July: Released CoolBeans 2019.06, in sync with upstream NetBeans 11.1
  • July: Launched jchoice.eu, an informational page about OpenJDK builds.
  • May: Launched codeswith.com, a testimonial site about programmers.
• 2018
  • November: Launched CoolBeans IDE, a NetBeans distribution.
  • October: Apache NetBeans wins 2018 Duke's Choice Award at Code One.
  • July: Release Manager for Apache NetBeans 9.0
• 2017
  • October: YaMeter: Remote JMeter Cloud load testing on Google Cloud and Amazon EC2 or both (multi-cloud) (JAXenter).
  • October: singlehandedly managed #Hacktoberfest for NetBeans. Stats: 75 commits, 24 new contributors! 218 closed issues, 101 closed PRs.
  • March: NetBeans Retina (JAXenter), with a small Angular site.
• 2016
  • December: NBnotify. Native Windows/macOS/Linux notifications for NetBeans.
  • December: migrated the NetBeans Mercurial repository holding 17 years of history to Git.
• 2013
  • I made NetBeans dance:

    NetBeans - PalmOfMyHand - Dance Demo from Emilian Bold on Vimeo.

• 2012
  • May: Did a 'summer of code' style paid intership inside my own company.
• 2010
  • NBnotify : native macOS notifications for NetBeans.
• 2007
  • Became a member of the NetBeans Dream Team.
  • July: Busy exploring Maven projects with NetBeans IDE
• 2006
  • Started working all day on top of the NetBeans Platform as a consultant. Before that, I used the Platform on and off ever since the 3.6 version.