This is my first blog post and instead of the old “hello world” trick I’ll try to pitch myself to you. In this way you’ll get to know me a bit better right from the start.

So here it goes:

“Hi, I’m Silviu and I am a co-founder of ReadFu. I’m from Romania and I came all the way down to Vancouver to join Bootup Labs and to build an awesome product.

During high school I participated in programming competitions and I won a gold medal at the international Olympiads in Informatics. In that time I’ve co-founded infoarena.ro which is now the biggest community of talented computer geeks in Romania.

In my college years I’ve tried as many things as I could: I’ve done 2 software engineering internships with Google (one in Mountain View and one in Zurich) and I was a research intern at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.

After I finished my BS Degree in Computer Science I decided to build something of my own and I started balaur.ro which is the best job aggregator in Romania. But my dream was to build an international business and here I am pursuing my dream in the beautiful city of Vancouver.”

I intend to use this pitch as my personal story in networking events around Vancouver. If you have any suggestions, leave me a message.