Rares Hideg
Senior Software Engineer
Eighteen years building for the web, the last few spent full time on AI engineering. PHP and Laravel on the server, JavaScript and React in front of it, and Claude Code and Codex doing a growing share of the typing. Founder of Hexbon, and team lead on a product still under wraps since 2021.
Mar 2021 - today
Cluj-Napoca, remote
Senior Software Engineer, Team Lead
Stealth startup
- Leading delivery on a product not yet announced.
- PHP and Laravel, worked agile.
2011 - today
Cluj-Napoca
Expert
Media Ricu SRL
- Wireframes, design, UX, front end, back end and testing, whichever the job needed that week.
Apr 2010 - Apr 2011
Web Developer
WCP
Feb 2008 - Apr 2011
Web Developer
Freelance
- Client sites end to end: wireframes, design, UX, front end, back end, testing.
Feb 2008 - Apr 2010
Front-End Developer
Transycons
Cecsy
A deployment platform that takes a plain compose file and runs it on your own server, with blue and green slots so a bad release never takes the site down. Built because every other option wanted either a Kubernetes cluster or a credit card per environment.
- Blue and green slots, so a rollback is a routing change rather than a rebuild.
- An MCP server, so an agent can deploy and diagnose without leaving the conversation.
Laravel
MongoDB
Docker
Traefik
Redis
Hexbon
A password manager where encryption happens in the browser and the server only ever stores ciphertext. Losing the database would cost an attacker nothing worth having.
- Zero knowledge by construction: the key is derived client side and never sent.
Laravel
React
WebCrypto
MongoDB
Zulpez
A spatial reasoning puzzle game about folding shapes through each other. The hard part was never the rendering, it was generating puzzles that are difficult without being unfair.
TypeScript
Pixi.js
Laravel
Playpoc
Real time multiplayer rooms, built to find out how much latency you can hide with prediction before people notice. The answer is more than I expected.
Node.js
WebSockets
Redis
Education
FSEGA, Babes-Bolyai University
- Economics and business administration, Cluj-Napoca.
FSPAC, Babes-Bolyai University
- Political, administrative and communication sciences, Cluj-Napoca.
Skills
Languages
PHP, JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, CSS
Frameworks
Laravel, React, Inertia, Tailwind
Data
MongoDB, Redis
Infrastructure
Docker, nginx, Traefik, DevOps
Agentic
Claude Code, Codex, MCP
Practice
Agile, Wireframing, UX, Testing, MVP and SaaS delivery