Alex Budurovici
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Ventures & Platform Engineering

I build products from the ground up and architect cloud platforms for scale. This is a curated selection of my founder-built ventures and enterprise engineering track record.

Currently operating Heftli Expats in Switzerland Lansez SwissWebsites SwissDevOps via Spofibo

Founder-built products

Platforms and SaaS I've built, launched, and operated.

Heftli interface

Heftli · Swiss SaaS invoicing platform

Solo build, Jan 2026–Present

  • SaaS
  • Product
  • Full-Stack

Problem I saw that freelancers and SMEs in Switzerland needed a clean, compliant invoicing tool with native QR-Bill generation and time tracking, without the overhead of heavy enterprise platforms.

Outcome I designed, built, and launched a production-grade multi-tenant SaaS platform. I independently operate every layer: from the Supabase and Stripe infrastructure down to the frontend components.

Stack
  • TypeScript
  • React
  • Supabase
  • Stripe
  • PostgreSQL

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Expats in Switzerland interface

Expats in Switzerland · Relocation platform

Solo build, Jan 2025–Present

  • Product
  • Platform
  • Cloud

Problem Professionals relocating to Switzerland needed a reliable, practical resource. I wanted to build a platform that operates at near-zero cost while still handling dynamic features and lead capture.

Outcome I evolved the project from a static site to a live, growing platform serving the international community. It runs on highly cost-efficient cloud primitives and background workers.

Stack
  • TypeScript
  • Next.js
  • Cloudflare Workers
  • PostgreSQL

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Lansez interface

Lansez · Early-stage venture platform

Spofibo specialist brand

  • Product
  • Platform

Problem We needed a repeatable way to launch, validate, and operate new early-stage products under the Spofibo umbrella without rebuilding infrastructure each time.

Outcome I built and now operate a venture platform that successfully supports rapid, early-stage product launches and market validation.

Stack
  • Architecture
  • Operations
  • Product Strategy

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Cloud & platform engineering

Condensed themes from my enterprise and consulting track record.

Cloud platform & migration

Enterprise programmes, 2017–2024 (Client names withheld under NDA)

  • Architected self-service infrastructure platforms reducing developer lab provisioning from days to under 10 minutes across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Designed landing zones and IaC patterns for multi-environment cloud migrations, ensuring safe deployment paths and clear ownership.
  • Led cloud cost optimisation programmes that reduced waste and improved cost predictability for multi-account estates.
  • Implemented scaling and load-balancing architectures to handle sustained and peak editorial web traffic without single points of failure.
  • Migrated suitable event-driven and API services to serverless architectures to reduce operational toil.
Stack
  • Terraform
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • GCP
  • Python
  • Ansible
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Security & governance

Enterprise programmes, 2017–2024 (Client names withheld under NDA)

  • Built automated golden image pipelines with Packer to deliver repeatable, hardened server baselines and eliminate configuration drift.
  • Designed RBAC models and least-privilege access patterns to tighten production governance and prevent privilege creep.
  • Developed custom zone management tooling and change workflows for Bind9 DNS, providing operators with a safe, auditable update path.
Stack
  • Packer
  • Security Tooling
  • Bind9
  • RBAC
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Data & delivery engineering

Enterprise programmes, 2017–2024 (Client names withheld under NDA)

  • Delivered dependable batch processing pipelines with predictable run times, retry behaviour, and operational visibility.
  • Architected a central data lake and ingestion patterns for large-scale analytics, keeping production systems decoupled.
  • Standardised CI/CD deployment paths across multi-team application delivery to reduce manual steps and drift.
  • Integrated Playwright into delivery pipelines to automate end-to-end verification of critical user journeys before release.
Stack
  • Data Engineering
  • CI/CD
  • Playwright
  • Pipelines

Web & content platforms

Enterprise programmes, 2017–2024 (Client names withheld under NDA)

  • Enabled sub-second filtered search with date and location aggregations over a high-volume index using Elasticsearch.
  • Maintained fast, stable performance for a multilingual news platform across Joomla and WordPress under sustained editorial traffic.
  • Supported high-content-volume publishing for a large crowdlearning community using hardened LAMP stack patterns.
  • Designed a shared industrial CMS platform across PHP and Python to provide a common publishing backbone for multiple editorial properties.
Stack
  • Elasticsearch
  • WordPress
  • Joomla
  • LAMP
  • PHP
  • Python
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Archived work

Foundational products from earlier in my career.

Videouri · Video search engine

Founder-built product, Madrid, ~2011 (Archived)

Problem Users lacked a unified search experience across YouTube, Dailymotion, Vimeo, and Metaface (feeds from 4 major platforms of the era). The goal was to create a unified, fast, and filterable discovery experience across fragmented video sources.

Outcome The project involved significant technical and non-technical challenges. While it is now a very old and archived project, it served as a foundational experience in caching, API consumption, SEO, and full-stack delivery.

Stack
  • Laravel
  • Vue.js
  • Redis
  • LEMP
  • Supervisor

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