Andrei Mocanu
I build web products end to end, and I do research in quantum computing. I’m currently open to freelance projects.
andrei@mcnu.ro · github.com/andreiusq · mcnu.ro · Bucharest
experience
KinderpediaSoftware engineer intern
School and kindergarten management, used by 1,000+ schools in 40 countries. I’ve shipped 9 modules.
StarquessCo-founder
The education platform I co-founded at 16. It reached 10 schools and 4,000 students before Kinderpedia acquired it.
ShipstormStudio
The name I take client work under. I build websites and web products for clients, end to end.
projects
BloxenMinecraft network
A Minecraft network with minigames, survival and arena PvP, on our own Paper fork.
RoQTeam event platform
Registration, check-in, judging and sponsor tracking for BreaQ, in one tool.
School timetables
A timetable system for Romanian schools.
also: Procurement monitor · mcnu.ro, first version
community
BreaQCo-organizer
Quantum, AI and cybersecurity. 120 participants, 6 sponsors, a 24-hour hackathon and a conference.
TruckersMPTranslation team lead
I lead translation for six languages and train new translators.
also: CubedCon · ONI
research
Classical shadows
Estimating many properties of a quantum state from a few randomized measurements.
Quantum ML and privacy
A co-authored working paper on quantum machine learning and privacy. Still in progress.
BreaQ 2025
Before I helped organize BreaQ, I competed in it. Our team placed second nationally, and I led the quantum machine learning work.
Red-teaming object detectors
Robustness validation for YOLO-family object detectors, which I pitched for EDTH 2026.
stack
At work I write Symfony and Vue on top of PostgreSQL, Redis and RabbitMQ, shipped to Kubernetes. My own projects run in Docker on a VPS I manage, the Minecraft side is Java, and research happens in Python with Qiskit, PennyLane and PyTorch.
education
Computer science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bucharest