Andrei Serdeliuc

My name is Andrei Serdeliuc, I live in the South East of England, and I’m originally from Romania.

I’ve been a PHP programmer for the past 4 years and I’m currently developing as part of the 3ev team.

My programming career started when I left England out of boredom, and I went back to Romania to live with my father.

He later introduced me to Catalin Hulea, an excellent PHP programmer and now one of my best friends, who spent 6 months, 8 hours a day, teaching me the basics of programming in PHP and JavaScript.

Since I first met Catalin, I spent roughly 17000 hours programming (that’s around 377.400.000 characters of code) and one of the first ones was on the 25th of March, 2006 when I wrote the first working application: a shoutbox with user registration and authentication, pagination, smileys and others.

I’ve worked on a variety of projects since I wrote that shoutbox, ranging from an antique store (this was the first proper project I worked on, with Catalin, in the autumn of 2006), to social networking (Good and Bad & Blogzoner while with the excellent team from MB Dragan) and many other interesting projects including Rackspace, Twinings and The Economist while with 3ev.

The story goes on and on, and spans over 2 countries and numerous employers, but the most important part is the way it all started.

Currently on a day to day basis my responsibilities range from implementing TYPO3 / Zend projects, administering EC2 / Rackspace cloud instances for our clients, writing / improving our internal libraries and handling technical support.

P.S.: I also like photography and cooking, the best recipe I’ve tried so far being Smoked paprika chicken stroganoff with spätzle