Hi, I am Catalin Caldararu

Lead inventor of 7 pending Agentic and Edge AI patents

Contributor to AI services deployed worldwide to millions of edge devices

Certified Scrum Product Owner and Scrum Master (PSPO II, PSM II)

Catalin Caldararu
Education: MSc in Management Information Systems and BSc in Business Informatics at ASE Bucharest
Location: Bucharest, Romania and RemoteLanguages: English - Proficient, Romanian - NativeContact: For inquiries please contact me on LinkedIn

About Me

Software developer with 4+ years of experience and strong product skills. Specialized in .NET, Edge AI, AI Agents, multilingual speech recognition, text embeddings, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and on-device integration of small language models.

I bridge the gap between product strategy, cutting-edge AI research, and the practical development of full-stack web, desktop, Edge and Hybrid-Edge AI applications as an inventor who actively ships software.

PSPO II & PSM II Certified - As an advanced Scrum Practitioner, I combine technical depth with design thinking and user-centered design to ideate and design useful software features, MVPs and patents.

Experience

Inventor and AI Product Developer

Dell TechnologiesNov 2024 - Present (11 mos)Location: Bucharest, Romania - Hybrid

I am inventing some of tomorrow's AI products. I originate and lead the development of 7 patents and contribute to 4 additional patents, each representing an Agentic, Edge, Hybrid-Edge, or Cloud AI product

  • Understanding AI strategy, trade-offs, and how AI can be applied across edge, hybrid-edge, and cloud environments
  • Driving end-to-end IP product development, from market opportunity identification through business case development, technical design, and alignment with the company's technology strategy
  • Drafting and leading presentations of technical designs and business cases to stakeholders
  • Identifying limitations in current AI systems and designing novel solutions to overcome them, accelerating adoption and delivering real-world impact
  • Systematically combine my development experience with agile product ownership principles to estimate key product metrics such as the current value, unrealized value, time to market, and innovation potential, translating them into actionable insights that drive commercial value and feasibility
Product StrategyPatent DevelopmentAI Product DesignIntellectual PropertyTechnical Documentation

AI Software Developer

.NET, Edge AI and Microsoft AI

Dell TechnologiesMay 2024 - Present (1 yr 5 mos)Location: Bucharest, Romania - Hybrid

Part of the development team of a significant greenfield Edge AI project, where I specialize in Edge integrations of Speech Recognition and Small Language Models using .NET, Microsoft AI and ONNX Runtime

  • Lead the development of 4 multilingual Conversational AI and Speech Recognition services that serve as independent building blocks of complex AI pipelines
  • Contribute to multi-vendor Edge AI systems deployed to millions of edge devices, supporting 3 hardware platforms, 2 compute units, and 5 model providers
  • Contributed to the development of a customer-facing framework for building on-device AI applications, enabling seamless integration of Edge AI capabilities into client solutions
  • Built NuGet packages for Edge AI inference and deploy them to JFrog Artifactory
  • Create SLM evaluation pipelines by writing tests to verify model behavior, ensuring accuracy, safety, and performance compliance
  • Create ASR evaluation pipelines by writing tests to verify model predictions across formats, sampling rates and word error rates
C#.NET CoreArtificial Intelligence (AI)Edge ComputingONNX

Full Stack Software Developer

.NET and React

Dell TechnologiesAug 2021 - Apr 2024 (2 yrs 9 mos)Location: Bucharest, Romania - Remote

Part of the development team of a web platform that was created to migrate, globalize and centralize 3 legacy monoliths using microservices. Each monolith provided 20+ capabilities (subdomains) used during the entire ordering lifecycle, from requirements collection up to fulfilment

  • Applied the Strangler Fig pattern to incrementally migrate the monolith to microservices
  • Designed 3 application subdomains with 8 .NET Web APIs and 2 React micro-frontends
  • Became a domain expert, contributing to 25+ additional microservices across other subdomains
  • Automated deployments across 4 environments using GitLab CI/CD, reducing release complexity
  • Mentored 3 interns and onboarded 4 developers
C#.NET CoreMicroservicesSQLReact.jsTypeScriptCI/CD

Skills

Full Stack .NET Development

C#, .NET Core, Microservices, React, WPF, Blazor, CI/CD

AI Integration

Edge AI, ONNX Runtime, Conversational AI, Small Language Models (SLMs), Speech Recognition, RAG

Product Development

Intellectual Property (IP), Mind Mapping, IP Mining, Product Strategy, Product Design, Presentations, Prototyping, End-to-end MVP Development

Certifications

Certified Professional Scrum Product Owner II - PSPO II

Issuer: Scrum.org

Certified Professional Scrum Master II - PSM II

Issuer: Scrum.org

For inquiries please contact me on LinkedIn