commit a3f7c2d (tag: v2025)
Author: kovacs <kovacs@terminal>
Date: 2025
feat:enrolled in B.Sc. Software Engineering at Lancaster University, Leipzig campus
feat:deployed production systems for real companies — Exam Management Platform & Digital Register
feat:shipped AI Ticket Prioritizer — ML-powered support ticket triage
feat:led team to National Finals at the National Statistics Olympiad
feat:National Finalist in Student Finance Challenge (2nd consecutive year)
refactor:deep dive into AI/ML: transformer architectures, NLP pipelines, PyTorch
docs:began documenting engineering portfolio — you're looking at it
commit e9b1f4a (tag: v2024)
Author: kovacs <kovacs@terminal>
Date: 2024
feat:competed in Google Code Jam — global algorithmic competition
feat:CanSat National Finalist (2nd year) — improved telemetry & data analysis
feat:National Finalist & Top 5 at Student Finance Challenge
feat:built & deployed My Grades — full-stack academic performance tracker
refactor:mastered Next.js, TypeScript, PostgreSQL — full production stack
commit c4d8e2b (tag: v2023)
Author: kovacs <kovacs@terminal>
Date: 2023
refactor:graduated from static websites to React & Next.js frameworks
feat:first CanSat competition — circuit design, embedded programming, physics, data analysis
feat:built meteorological station as school side-project
feat:participated in Romanian Olympiad in Informatics (ONI) — national level
feat:expanded into C/C++ — embedded systems, ESP32, Arduino, sensor integration
commit 7f2a9c1 (tag: v2022)
Author: kovacs <kovacs@terminal>
Date: 2022
feat:entered competitive programming — won first major programming competition
refactor:advanced algorithms: binary search, greedy strategies, dynamic programming, graph theory
feat:competed in national-level programming contests
feat:deepened Python mastery — automation scripts, data processing, CLI tools
commit b5c3d8e (tag: v2020-21)
Author: kovacs <kovacs@terminal>
Date: 2020–2021
feat:built first real project — a cookie clicker mobile game
feat:expanded into mobile development — app design & deployment
feat:learned Python — scripting, automation, problem solving
refactor:leveled up JavaScript — DOM manipulation, async, API integrations
commit d1e0f3c (tag: v2019)
Author: kovacs <kovacs@terminal>
Date: 2019
init:wrote first lines of code — Scratch, then JavaScript
feat:built first websites — HTML, CSS, vanilla JS
feat:discovered the joy of making things that work on a screen
docs:liked tech. wanted to build cool stuff. never stopped.