AGE

27BIRTHPLACE

Bucharest, Romania (pop. 2.3 million)ACADEMICS

Bachelor's in Computer Science at Polytechnic University of BucharestJOB

Day job designing Web pages for an American tech company, which he declines to name. Finds freelance work on RentACoder.com. Clears $3,000 per monthGOAL

To afford a bigger house, a better car, and to start his own software company in Romania