Tudor Jianu — AI & Autonomous Systems Engineer

About

My name is Tudor, and I build technology that serves people.

AI & Autonomous Systems Engineer at the Virtual Engineering Centre, University of Liverpool. My work spans the full stack, from computer vision in robotics for social care, to backend infrastructure and frontend development.

Stack of choice: Go and Svelte/SvelteKit. Clean, fast, no unnecessary magic. Also Python, React, NextJS, computer vision, and LLMs.

Passionate about open-source and privacy-respecting technologies. I self-host wherever possible and avoid vendor lock-in. I trust my own servers more than I trust most people.

Outside work: debugging my body at the gym (gymnastics rings + heavy weights), solving problems with plastic pieces on bouldering walls, dancing Bachata and Salsa. My brain runs on continuous deployment. Sometimes there are breaking changes.

Got a project in mind, want to collaborate, or just want to chat?
My inbox is open.

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Working on

Different bits and pieces. Sometimes AI, sometimes software engineering, sometimes with robots.

Reading

"The Curse of Love" by Alain de Botton

Writing

August 4, 2025

How I built Simple Budget in two evenings with an AI agent

How I built the Simple Budget app in two evenings using the Pi coding agent, Ollama Cloud, and a loop of exploring, grilling the plan, summarising, and building in branches.

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August 4, 2025

Simple Budget - A minimalist budgeting app without the noise

Simple Budget is a free, manual budgeting app that lets you track income and spending with buckets and categories, without bank imports, automation, or subscriptions.

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