Dan Nutu, Product & Systems Engineer

Online Chatou, France

Dan Nutu

Product & Systems Engineer

I design products, and the systems that keep them running.

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Six products online, since March 2026.

And the systems that keep them running.

One engineer. Backed by AI agents.

Online bizleen.com

Bizleen

Engraved wooden Bizleen business card: Bizleen logo, "Votre présence en ligne" and NFC symbol
Back of the wooden card for Dan Nutu, founder of Bizleen, with engraved QR code

It all starts with a physical card.

I design every card and laser-engrave it myself, in Chatou.

Noble wood, a vector QR code, an NFC chip.

Turn it over.

The QR code works: one scan opens the site.

The business digital showcase and card on bizleen.com The Bizleen Orbit dashboard on mobile: clock-in, hours worked, tips, team scheduling

A scan or an NFC tap: the card deploys the business showcase mini-site, with catalog, booking and hours.

And behind the scenes for the team, the connected ERP.

Bizleen Orbit on tablet and smartphone: NFC clock-in, compliant scheduling, tips and payroll, in fourteen languages.

The public site sells (Bizleen). The connected workspace delivers (Orbit).

  • 11 business verticals
  • 10 / 14 languages (public & team)
  • 40 150 test cases
  • 892 400 production lines

Astro 6 SSR · Workers · D1 · R2 · Cloudflare Images · Resend

Online halvyn.app

Halvyn

The couple app that turns conversations into a game.

Compatibility 87% illustration

  • 9 languages
  • Web, iOS, Android
  • 8 mini-games
  • Real time

Docker Compose · PostgreSQL 16 · Redis Pub/Sub · Cloudflare R2 · OpenAI · Stripe

Online shortstayguide.com

ShortStayGuide

A city in one, two or three days. In three languages.

Globe points: illustration

An editorial system for multilingual travel guides, with semantic search.

  • 343 cities
  • 3,087 city guides
  • 24,255 published pieces
  • 3 languages

@astrojs/cloudflare · Workers AI · Vectorize · D1 · Browser Rendering

Online open source

MagicWindows

Apple’s Magic Keyboard layouts on Windows. Native, free.

The MagicWindows welcome screen on Windows: “Welcome to MagicWindows”, automatic keyboard detection or a manual choice among six layouts
The final MagicWindows screen: “Layout installed successfully!”, with the Win+Space reminder to switch to the new layout

A native Windows installer with health checks and a web distribution channel.

  • 6 layouts
  • 12 native DLLs
  • x64 and ARM64
  • v0.4.1

Tauri 2.10 · Rust 1.77+ · Cloudflare Workers · R2 (public)

Online npm

PetForge

A companion that grows while you code.

XP bar: illustration

A local progression layer for Claude Code: every session evolves an ASCII creature.

  • 18 species
  • 52 achievements
  • 5 Claude Code hooks
  • v3.7.11

Node 20+ · atomic JSON · npm public

Online protected access

Gouvernance

An audit, turned into a decision space.

64 FMEA risks

A risk and architecture audit delivered as an interactive, access-controlled space.

  • 4 target architectures
  • 5 PDF deliverables

Astro 5.7 (static) · Cloudflare Pages · Worker (lock) · KV (anti-brute-force)

Two internal tools. And one project in the shadow.

  • Internal

    MeetScribe

    Meeting transcription, without the audio ever leaving home.

    1,020 tests

    Python 3.12 · Local GPU RTX 4070 · FastAPI 0.137 · SQLite / FTS5 · Tailscale

  • Internal

    Separis

    Traceable bookkeeping: an inconsistency blocks the export.

    87 tests

    Python 3 · Flask 3.0 · SQLite (10 tables) · Tailscale LAN

  • In progress

    A seventh project is being built. It stays in the shadow until launch.

Where everything runs.

Map of the products I build and operate
  • Self-hosted CI
  • Prometheus · Grafana
  • Deduplicated backups

Remote access over an encrypted mesh · no service port exposed to the Internet

Figures, not adjectives.

  • 26,000+ automated tests counted across Bizleen and Bizleen Orbit, MeetScribe, PetForge, Separis and MagicWindows
  • 6 products online Bizleen with Bizleen Orbit, Halvyn, ShortStayGuide, MagicWindows, PetForge, Gouvernance
  • 7 months since March 2026 of design, delivery and operations, without pause
  • 5 pilot venues Bizleen launch cohort, real restaurants
  • 24,255 published pages ShortStayGuide, three languages, 343 cities
  • 18 isolated environments 5 VMs and 13 containers on a 3-node Proxmox cluster

Spec, plan, blitz, polish.

In short: I define “done” before coding, delegate execution to agents, and answer for the result.

  1. Spec

    clarify, then harden

    Understand the user, the business process and the constraints. Write down what “done” means, with the edge cases, the sensitive data and the failure scenarios, before a single line of code.

  2. Plan

    architecture and risk

    Choose a proportionate architecture and document the trade-offs. Split the work into numbered, sequential tasks: the architecture is settled before execution, not discovered during it.

  3. Blitz

    execution by agents

    Delegate implementation to AI agents working in parallel, slice by slice and end to end: database, API, interface, translations. Every increment ships verifiable.

  4. Polish and operations

    review, production, handover

    Demanding review of the produced code, release to production, observation of real behaviour, fast fixes. Then documented procedures, so that someone else can take over.

AI writes a lot of the code. The decisions stay mine.

It does

  • Research and prototyping
  • Writing code under a specification
  • Repetitive tasks
  • A first review pass

It does not

  • Architecture decisions
  • Product trade-offs
  • Validation in production
  • Responsibility for the outcome

A lab designed to fail cleanly.

Load and status lights: illustration
  • 3 nodes
  • 11 TB shared
  • 18 guests (5 VMs and 13 LXC containers)

In short: three machines, eighteen isolated environments and tested backups: the training ground for everything else.

  1. 01

    Recovery is tested, not assumed

    Daily incremental deduplicated backups go to a dedicated server, with retention, integrity verification and restore tests.

  2. 02

    Private by construction

    Remote access uses an encrypted mesh network. No service port is exposed directly to the Internet; internal routing and TLS are handled by reverse proxies.

  3. 03

    A failure mode removed by design

    Network shares mount on demand and their mount points are protected. If storage becomes unavailable, writes fail explicitly instead of silently filling a system disk.

  4. 04

    Operated as a system

    Prometheus, Grafana and dedicated exporters cover node health, memory pressure, volumes and applications. Configuration and incident notes are versioned in Git.

Evidence first, labels second.

In production

  • TypeScript · React · Astro
  • Node.js · Hono · APIs
  • PostgreSQL · D1 · SQLite
  • Cloudflare Workers · R2
  • Docker · CI/CD
  • Authentication · multi-tenancy · GDPR

At the homelab

  • Proxmox · VM · LXC
  • Network storage
  • Deduplicated backups
  • Prometheus · Grafana
  • Reverse proxy · TLS
  • Private mesh network · self-hosted CI

In projects

  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes

In training

  • IAM · access governance
  • SIEM · supervision
  • Vulnerability assessment
  • Pentest methodology · hardening

Training and foundations

  • IBM · Coursera DevOps & Software Engineering
  • LIORA Cloud Developer Administrator
  • LIORA Cybersecurity Administrator In progress
The closer to the centre, the stronger the evidence.
Dan Nutu, Product & Systems Engineer

Founder · since March 2026

Let’s talk about a system, a product or a team.

Restaurants, finance, then software through products: I build what I then operate.

My strength is connecting the layers of a system, identifying risk, and going deep where the system requires it.

Read the full story

Tell me what already exists, what is not working, and what outcome you are aiming for. Email and LinkedIn are the simplest places to start.

  1. Join a team

    Internship or opportunity to deepen cloud, infrastructure and operations alongside experienced engineers.

  2. Build a product

    Ownership of a full-stack scope, a 0→1 product or a rebuild that needs end-to-end thinking.

  3. Exchange expertise

    Architecture review, open-source collaboration or a focused conversation about a systems problem.