# About

![](https://anatolinicolae.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/anatoli-hero-half-e1693516254315.jpg)## About

Uhh... I’m still Anatoli Nicolae, a **software engineer** at Mollie, previously Fiscozen and founder of [thundersquared](https://thundersquared.com/)—currently working on websites, apps, bots and other products to *improve everyday life*.

As a designer I study every single pixel of the product to make it easy to use yet nice to see. As a developer, I keep following latest tech to *provide better and more efficient services*.

Knowledge in two different yet connected fields allows me to *better understand requirements and technical limitations* and still maintain a high level of creativity in projects, **balancing functional interfaces and performance**.

But let's stop selling myself, and read some more fun facts about me instead.

![Anatoli's handwritten initials](https://anatolinicolae.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/an-initials-dark.png)

 The Jack of all trades you've been looking for ## One Man Show

 ###  Visual 

 A passionate and licensed drone pilot and a huge camera nerd, taking pictures and shooting videos. In absolute love with scene lighting and catchlights.

 ###  Design 

 The go-to meme-designer and pixel-perfect curator that can actually make your logo pop and make it even bigger—I'm the guy.

 ###  Music 

 Some sort of an audiophile, musician, producer and mixing engineer that makes incredibly short songs—then gets bored.

 ###  Software 

 Simple solution finder™ (or Software Engineer), developer by day and hacker by night, with a generous sprinkle of love for process automation.

 ###  Hardware 

 Investigator and knowledgeable part-picker, meticulous custom tower PC builder
and proud homelab server owner.

 ###  Automotive 

 Electric vehicle fanboy and owner, with a grain of strong positions in green transition debates,
car-vlogger wannabe with no content.

 ![](https://anatolinicolae.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/anatoli-hero-wide.jpg) Shot by Martina Tamburello ## Environmental Ideology

 ###  Solar 

 Pro-photovoltaic panel and kinda agains solar panel that just provide warm water.
Creating electricity with your panels allows you to still get warm water and much more—go for PV.

 ###  Nuclear 

 Nuclear energy fanboy as there has to be some other way to make energy besides burning coal.
Oppenheimer's a movie and the story has aged quite a bit for us to better understand what's up.

 ###  Gasoline 

 Strongly against ICE as much as possible for their poor efficiency and pollution.
Unfortunately the gasses are invisible, but I'd dare you to breathe it if they weren't color-less.

 ![](https://anatolinicolae.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/santoli.jpg) Photoshopped this myself ## Obnoxious Bragging Area

 ###  Pure Gem 

 *“Must-have friend”*—award nominated, with most reviewers feeling *“lucky and blessed to know him”*.

 ###  Best Problem-Solver 

 Multidisciplinary problem-solver, always accepting new challenges and constantly contributing to everything for a better world.

 ###  Softest heart 

 Won't probably seem like so, but surely is deep somewhere. You just gotta really look for it to enjoy it.

## Oh man, this guy.

The fella seems really interesting.

I'd even like to grab a coffee or a beer with this dude.

 [ Schedule Drink ](https://cal.thundersquared.com/anatoli/drinks)