I'm Razvan - founding head of engineering at ZOOT. I write about technical leadership and system design, and what it looks like to build when the ground keeps shifting. Based in Bucharest.
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Wine, a Terrace, and a Weekend SaaSA friend of ours runs presales at a large enterprise. We were on my terrace, wine open, and at some…
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Shipping Roles Matrix in one AfternoonI shipped a complete Roles & Permissions management feature for the ZOOT Admin CMS – live in production, polished, and…
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From Teammate to Agent TeamsIn October 2025, at Raiffeisen Engineering Day, I framed AI in DevOps as a choice between a teammate and an…
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Identity as a BuilderWhile visiting my parents at my childhood home in the North-East part of the country, I stumbled across a four-meter…
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Exactly-Once Is a Lie (But Financial Consistency Isn’t)ZOOT RGS integrates with multiple external systems. Their delivery guarantees are not uniform. Some providers retry aggressively. Some retry once.…
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Remote Game Server (RGS) @ ZOOTZOOT (https://getzoot.us) launched in January 2024 as a US sweepstakes arcade platform. Users purchase digital coins (SC), use SC as…
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Direct NFT Checkout @ AQUA.xyzAt AQUA.xyz, we built Direct NFT to remove the last barrier to buying NFTs: ironically, crypto itself. Users could pay…