Milea Mihai
@qxzap
Senior software engineer, Iași
By day I run the crawlers behind Dimensions at Digital Science. The rest of the time I write MCP servers, scrapers that get past bot walls, local LLM tooling that fits 256K tokens of context on a 16 GB GPU, and pipelines that mod Unreal Engine games from the outside in. About 13 hours a day in a terminal, and I would not have it any other way.
Experience
Crawlers, CI pipelines, browser extensions, agent skills. The thread through all of it: find the manual job nobody wants, then make it run itself.
2022 to nowIași
I build and run the crawlers behind app.dimensions.ai and grew its grants and policy data by 500%. Along the way I shipped scraper tooling with elevated browser access, a self-healing AI scraper that caches what it learns while it hunts for funding data, and lightweight Jenkins and Jira MCP servers plus dozens of agent skills that retired whole manual workflows.
2024 to 2025Iași
Co-led a 12-person team building a Minecraft MMORPG. Wrote Python and Node automation across millions of content files, scrapers watching CurseForge and the modding communities, custom Java game mechanics, and the modpack site, zoompack.dev.
2020 to 2022Iași
Automated AEM deployments in Bash and Python to take the risk out of releases, built Jenkins CI/CD across multi-project AEM environments, and tuned Dispatcher and Apache for caching, security and speed.
2019 to 2020Iași
Built a browser extension that automated clinical data collection, and scrapers that pulled trial data with rate limiting and smart retries. Automation, years before AI made it fashionable.
2019Iași
Delivered on-premise apps for a law firm, a landing page and a vehicle mileage manager, plus a restaurant management system.
2018Iași
Led the migration of a Shutterstock backend service from Ruby on Rails to Java (JAX-RS) with full feature parity: hardened endpoints, structured validation and thorough test coverage.
2017Focșani
Built and maintained three full-stack e-commerce platforms that lifted quarterly sales by 18%.
BSc Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași, 2016 to 2020
Agent tooling
Open source, mostly zero-dependency, and running on my own machine every day. If an agent needs to see, remember, delegate or ask a human, one of these does it.
A local meeting place where AI agents hand off work. Claude Code, opencode, Codex or a local model connect over MCP to a shared worker registry, task board, message bus and full-text memory. One agent delegates, a sentry in another folder picks the task up and does it. Dumb pipes, real agents.
Reads a model's GGUF header and tunes llama.cpp for maximum context on your GPU, with MoE expert offload and a quantized KV cache. A 30B MoE coder at 256K context on a 16 GB card, served on an OpenAI-compatible endpoint. Pure standard library.
One page to drive the FreeToken MoE offload engine: pick a model, load it, unload it, watch VRAM and fire a test prompt. About 300 lines of standard-library Python in front of an engine that otherwise only speaks CLI.
Unreal Engine modding
Motor Town ships with no mod support. These tools add it anyway, by rewriting the cooked assets the game already loads, no editor and no engine source required.
A static-asset modding pipeline for Motor Town. Describe your content in JSON and it rewrites cooked .uasset and .umap files to inject delivery points, garages, gas stations, vehicles, foliage by the million and a whole economy into World Partition cells, then builds separate client and dedicated server paks.
A custom island for Motor Town, with its own roads, jobs and economy, built and shipped with MTMapInjector.
How to mod an Unreal Engine game that has no mod support, start to finish: extract the encryption key, pull assets out of the paks, change them and ship them back as a mod.
A mod loader for Motor Town. It hashes and extracts every installed pak, maps their assets, catches mods that overwrite each other, merges the conflicts it knows how to fix and launches the game.
Stack
I reach for whatever the problem wants, and keep the dependency count honest.
A scraper that keeps breaking, an agent that needs real tools, a game that says no to mods. Tell me about it.
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