Cristian Turcan

I build software, end to end.

Embedded systems, machine learning, and the software that ties them together. I like every part of it.

Selected work

Where I’ve been building

Real, paid, in-production work. The full story lives here.

Software EngineerPart-time

Offroad Apps (VitalsIQ) · Delft · Jan 2026 - Present

Vitals streamed live from Garmin wearables into a companion app, a tactical mapping plugin, and a barcode library rewritten from scratch.

  • 7 live vital types
  • .NET 10 + MAUI
  • JABCode ported C → C#

Embedded Software EngineerPart-time

Insyght.io · Delft · Aug 2025 - Present

Firmware, an on-device noise classifier, and the factory test framework.

  • on-device noise classifier
  • Zephyr RTOS
  • far lower idle current

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Altix Capital · Amsterdam · Apr 2025 - Jun 2025

Documents, spreadsheets and scans parsed, summarised and classified, plus the service and interface analysts screen in.

  • PDF · spreadsheet · OCR ingest
  • REST service + web UI

Machine Learning Engineer Intern

Huawei · Amsterdam · Dec 2024 - May 2025

Keyword spotting, audio dataset curation, and benchmarking for speech recognition and synthesis.

  • forced-alignment datasets
  • reproducible benchmarking

Beyond the code

Where I grew up, and what I do off the clock

How I got here

I grew up in Moldova, a loud kid in a one-room apartment, me and my older sister. A family legend says my maths got good right after I took a knock to the head at a taekwondo competition, a coincidence I find funny and decided to stick to it. I went to a small neighbourhood school, and at ten I walked into my first olympiad and came home with first in the district and second in the whole city.

When I’m not shipping

I’m back in the taekwondo these days, a beginner again, years after an injury stopped me. Otherwise: books I finish even when they’ve stopped being good (I never drop one), board game nights with friends, cooking, and always music.

Say hello

I’m always up for a good conversation.

About a role, a hard problem, or just what you’re building.