Iurie Nistor
Email: iuriehn@gmail.com | Linkedin | GitHub
Welcome to my personal page. I'm Iurie, a software engineer and former researcher in Physics based in Chisinau, Moldova. During my free time, I develop free software, study physics, enjoy nature photography, and raise an orchard of wild fruit trees.
Software Engineering
I've worked as a software enginner in various sectors, including automotive, broadcast, communication, and web services. In recent years, I have transitioned to a full-time remote work environment.
My primary programming languages are C and C++, with experience in the following areas:
- API design and development
- Multi-threaded applications, asynchronous programming
- Network programming, client-server, web service development, IPC
- System programming, system services, middleware
- 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).
Physics
Since 2005 to 2013 I worked as an experimental researcher in optics of semiconductors. But I have always been curious about fundamental physics, so, I'm reading material in this domain now.
Photography & Music & more
In my free time, I enjoy nature photography and publish the photographs on Wikimedia Commons under the public domain. Additionally, in the past, composed music solely using free software on GNU/Linux
In past years, I started to grow a small orchard of mixed wild fruit trees such as cherry (Prunus avium), apple (Malus sylvestris), and pear (Pyrus pyraster), using techniques borrowed from regenerative agriculture. My aim is to create a small preservation of these trees, as I believe their populations are declining in parts of Europe, especially due to droughts.
- Flickr (selected photographs)
- Wikimedia Commons (all my photographs)
- SoundCloud (selected tracks from my old compositions)