Iurie Nistor

Software Engineering

I am a Senior Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience in the private sector. I've worked for various companies across sectors, including automotive, broadcast, communication, web services, and CAD. In recent years, I have transitioned to a full-time remote work environment as a contractor.

My primary programming languages are C and C++. I have experience in the following areas:

• API design and development
• Multi-threaded applications, asynchronous programming
• Network programming, client-server, web service development, IPC
• System programming, middleware applications
• GUI development
• Real-time audio programming, synthesizers
• Development on GNU/Linux, Windows, and embedded OS environments

Free Software

I have a passion for developing free software and have been working on a percussive synthesizer called Geonkick since 2017. It is used by musicians to synthesize their percussion sounds and is available for GNU/Linux and Windows, as a VST3 & LV2 plugin, and standalone.

I've also developed a small GUI toolkit called Redkite, suitable for embeddable UI and self-sufficient audio plugins. It's utilized by Geonkick for its UI. Inspired by Qt, Redkite features widgets, object connections, and object tree ownership. Its graphics backend is based on Cairo. Redkite supports GNU/Linux (XLib) and Windows (WinAPI).

• Geonkick
• Redkite GUI toolkit

Physics

Since 2005 to 2013 I worked as an experimental researcher in optics of semiconductors. But I have always been curious about fundamental theoretical physics, so, I'm reading material in this domain now.

• A list of books that I recommend and comment on
• Publications I contributed to during my time in academia

Photography & Music

In my free time, I enjoy nature photography and publish the photographs on Wikimedia Commons under the public domain. Additionally, in the past, cpoposed music solely using free software on GNU/Linux

• Flickr (selected photographs)
• Wikimedia Commons (all my photographs)
• SoundCloud (selected tracks from my old compositions)