Hi, I am Catalin Caldararu

Lead inventor of 10+ pending Agentic and Edge AI patents, contributing to AI services deployed to millions of devices

• Perform research and prototyping for patentable concepts, developing MVPs and system diagrams
• Develop C# speech recognition and conversational AI services using transformer models
• Build C# services for on-device classical and generative model inference using ONNX Runtime
• Develop .NET libraries for Edge AI inference and deploy them as NuGet packages to JFrog Artifactory
• Create robust data processing pipelines in C# to optimize AI models inputs and outputs
• Build WPF front-ends and APIs to simplify user interaction with AI capabilities
• Write C# and Python test suites for ML model accuracy and performance validation

Contributed to the development of a web platform for engineering management and workflow automation

• Designed 3 application subdomains consisting of 7 .NET Web APIs and 2 React micro-frontends
• Contributed to the development of 10+ additional microservices across other subdomains
• Optimized EF-generated SQL queries to improve database performance and reduce execution time
• Provided direct support to business stakeholders during User Acceptance Testing
• Facilitated daily stand-ups and resolved blockers on a rotation basis
• Mentored 3 interns and onboarded 4 developers

Contributed to the modernization of a legacy system, using the Strangler Fig pattern to gradually migrate a monolith to microservices architecture

• Built and maintained 10+ .NET Web APIs using C#, Entity Framework, and Oracle SQL
• Implemented comprehensive integration test suites, achieving 85%+ test coverage
• Implemented monitoring and alerting for 30+ microservices to accelerate issue detection
• Automated deployments across 4 environments using GitLab CI/CD, reducing release complexity