Adrian Manciu
Full-stack digital practitioner and long-term expat — covering digital freelancing, technology, and the practical realities of living and working across borders.
About Adrian
Adrian Manciu is a Contributing Writer at Moving to the UK with deep hands-on fluency across the full digital stack — from the tools and platforms that power modern professional life to the trends reshaping how people work, earn, and operate across borders. He has spent decades living across different countries, accumulating the kind of first-hand expat experience that makes the difference between writing about relocation and actually knowing what it involves.
He is not an observer of the digital world — he is embedded in it. Up to date with where technology is moving, comfortable across the full breadth of the digital landscape, and able to translate that into content that is genuinely useful for the freelancers, contractors, and digitally mobile professionals who make up a growing share of expats arriving in the UK.
Adrian writes for the freelancer who already knows what they're doing professionally — but needs to understand how it translates when they cross a border. The platforms, the tax implications, the banking setup, the digital infrastructure. The stuff that doesn't come up in standard relocation guides, from someone who actually uses these tools.
Areas of Expertise
Adrian covers the technology and digital working landscape for expats and internationally mobile professionals. His writing draws on genuine practitioner knowledge — not commentary from the sidelines — which means he can engage with the tools, platforms, and digital systems his readers are actually using.
Adrian is fluent in Italian — and having lived the expat experience himself, he knows what it feels like to navigate a new country in a language that isn't your first.