Andrei Merlescu

Neurodivergent Entrepreneur. Computer Engineer, B.S.. Fractional CTO. ex-WB Games. ex-Oracle. ex-Cisco. Former Orphan. Autodidact 21+ Year Computer Scientist. Husband, Father, Inventor and Co-Founder.

USA · Romania Joined on Oct 31, 2025 andrei+devto@merlescu.net https://github.com/andreimerlescu

Education

Wentworth Institute of Technology - Computer Engineering, B.S.
IEEE Branch President

Pronouns

is/be

Work

Co-Founder of
Play & Prosper Therapy, PLLC

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Andrei Merlescu

Aug 26

A story of i18n

#ai #programming #automation #llm

18 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Aug 12

My type of #FractionalCTO

#discuss #cto #leadership #career

12 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Aug 7

My Professional Story: Two Names, Thirty Years of Scaffolded Code, and the AI That Can't Tell I'm One Person

#discuss #llm #programming #beginners

14 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Aug 15

I held my ground in a technical interview

#discuss #career #interview #beginners

4 min read

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Andrei Merlescu

Aug 3

Welcome back to PHP

#discuss #php #programming #tutorial

18 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Aug 1

"AI Slop" Hurts Hiring Pipeline for Tech Talent

#discuss #ai #career #interview

10 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 30

🚩 AI companies must change or be stopped

#discuss #ai #career #programming

3 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 29

Anthropic is physically destroying RARE and OLD books to train Claude

#news #ai #discuss #llm

3 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 28

Claude Reacts to codeBerg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-generated code projects

#discuss #ai #opensource #llm

4 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 28

How My Claude Skills File Changed AI Assisted Development

#discuss #ai #programming #opensource

8 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 27

The Afternoon We Put Magento's Schema on SQL Server

#sql #beginners #webdev #programming

40 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 27

SQL Design & Query Reference

#webdev #sql #tutorial #ai

35 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 27

CodeBerg Bans Cryptocurrency and LLM-generated code projects

#discuss #opensource #ai #career

10 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 27

How I Reduced My OPEX By 99.5% Using Go

#discuss #mentorship #go #devops

30 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 25

How I Processed 666K Pages of Flattened PDFs into a Full Text Search Engine

#discuss #opensource #architecture #software

28 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 23

Sovereign Lemmings Released

#discuss #programming #go #productivity

2 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 23

Topobuilder brings a cPanel website into an AWS multi-region containerized application with an HAProxy load balancer

#discuss #devops #automation #architecture

18 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 22

The Day I Stopped Asking Strangers for My IP

#discuss #go #networking #tutorial

11 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 17

Five Hours Of Interviewing - Zero Questions About The Job

#ai #interview #career #reviews

13 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 9

Go To Do Rust

#discuss #tutorial #rust #go

16 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jul 2

When AI Creates A Closed Source World

#discuss #ai #programming #opensource

3 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Jun 4

Go + Gin Rust: HTTP Middleware & Web Servers

#discuss #go #rust #tutorial

42 min read

Andrei Merlescu

May 31

Basement Water Monitor Circuit in Go, Rust and C

#go #rust #c #tutorial

114 min read

Andrei Merlescu

May 22

Rust Decorators for Go Developers

#rust #go #tutorial #learning

21 min read

Andrei Merlescu

May 22

Go Concurrency in Rust

#discuss #go #rust #tutorial

10 min read

Andrei Merlescu

May 21

I Put Rust To The Test

#discuss #rust #go #performance

6 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 30

Humanized Software Engineering In Era Of AI

#discuss #ai #career #opensource

9 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 30

goini: Stop Writing Bash to Parse .ini Files

#discuss #go #devops #tutorial

7 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 30

goenv: Taming .env Files in Your DevOps Pipeline

#discuss #go #devops #tutorial

13 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 26

Locked In With AI

#discuss #ai #programming #career

7 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 26

What Is Sovereign?

#discuss #webdev #productivity #devops

5 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 22

AI took my job but it didn't take my passion for writing software

#ai #programming #opensource #career

4 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 21

Bump your VERSION file

#cicd #go #opensource #programming

5 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 20

From Zero to Hero: Building a Waiting Room with `room`, `figtree`, and `verbose`

#devops #logging #infrastructure #growth

19 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 20

From Zero to Hero: Building a Key Issuance Server with `verbose` and `figtree`

#logging #go #secrets #security

21 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 16

Lemmings Just Spawned

#devops #testing #go #monitoring

4 min read

Andrei Merlescu

Apr 14

Gin+Go Waiting Room Package Released

#devops #go #security #opensource

3 min read

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