I am Adrian (Popa Marius Adrian), an enthusiastic Software Developer and long‑time Firebird RDBMS contributor from Romania 🇷🇴.
I build and maintain open‑source tooling around the Firebird database — desktop admin tools, web frontends, drivers for just about every language, and the containers and CI that ship them. Lately I'm especially interested in where databases meet AI: vector/embedding search, and connecting database tools to LLMs through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- 🔭 Maintaining FlameRobin — the cross‑platform Firebird admin tool (C++20)
- 🌱 Exploring AI‑assisted database tooling: vector search, embeddings, and MCP servers for LLM assistants
- 🐘 Keeping the Firebird driver ecosystem (PHP, Python, Go, Node/TypeScript, Perl, Ruby, Rust) healthy
- 🐳 Packaging Firebird for Docker and automating builds with GitHub Actions / GitLab CI
- 💬 Ask me about Firebird, SQL, database internals, or C++
- 🌐 Web: reea.net · ✍️ Blog: mapopa.blogspot.com
| Project | Description | Tech |
|---|---|---|
| flamerobin | Lightweight, cross‑platform admin & dev GUI for Firebird (2.5 → 6.0+). Modern C++20 with JSON field editing, temporal tables, query‑plan visualization, plus vector/AI embedding support and an embedded MCP server for AI assistants. | C++ |
| firebirdwebadmin | PHP web frontend to administer Firebird SQL servers from the browser. | PHP |
| perl-dbd-firebird | The Perl DBI driver (DBD::Firebird) for connecting Perl apps to Firebird. |
Perl |
| firebird-docker | Docker images for Firebird — multi‑version, auto‑restore from backup, health checks. | Docker / Shell |
| php-firebird | The Firebird/InterBase PDO & interbase extension for modern PHP. | C |
Drivers and clients I've built with, maintain, or contribute large portions to:
- 💻 C++ → flamerobin
- 🐘 PHP → firebirdwebadmin · php-firebird
- 🐍 Python → pyfirebirdsql
- 🐹 Go → firebirdsql
- 🚀 TypeScript → node-firebird-driver
- 🌐 JavaScript → node-firebird
- 💎 Ruby → fb
- 🐪 Perl → perl-dbd-firebird
- 🦀 Rust → r2d2 (connection pooling)
- 💾 Shell → firebird-docker
- 🌐 Website — reea.net
- ✍️ Blog — mapopa.blogspot.com
- 👤 LinkedIn — in/mariuz
- ✉️ Email — mapopa@gmail.com
- ❤️ Sponsor — GitHub Sponsors






