About Me
Software developer with 4.5 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 deliver useful software features, MVPs, and patents.
Additional Information
Education
MSc in Management Information Systems and BSc in Business Informatics at ASE Bucharest
Location
Bucharest, Romania and Remote
Languages
English - Proficient, Romanian - Native
Contact
For inquiries please contact me on LinkedIn
Skills
Back-end Development
Cloud & Deploy (secondary focus)
Front-end Development (secondary focus)
AI Integration
AI Capabilities
AI Evaluation
AI & Product Strategy
Agile & Business
Interpersonal
Research focus areas
Conversational AI, Speech Recognition & Voice Agents
AI for Good, Accessibility, Observability & Moderation
AI for Remote & Field Operations
Semantic Search, Embeddings & Content Ingestion
Agent Personalization, Security & Safety
On-device & Hybrid AI Efficiency
Experience
Inventor
AI Product Development
I research, originate, and lead the development of 10 patents and contribute to 2 additional patents, each representing an Agentic, Edge, Hybrid-Edge, or Cloud AI product. This accounts for roughly one-third of my work, with the remainder focused on hands-on software development.
- Initiate, evaluate and prioritize 20+ intellectual property (IP) initiatives based on commercial value, feasibility and competition.
- Understand AI strategy, trends, constraints, trade-offs, and how AI can be applied across edge, hybrid-edge, and cloud environments.
- Drive the product design and patent development, from market opportunity identification through business case development, technical design, and alignment with the company's technology strategy.
- Apply agile product ownership principles to estimate key product metrics such as the current value, unrealized value, time to market, and innovation potential.
- Present technical designs and business cases to stakeholders, securing funding for patent filings.
- Review legal documents (official USPTO patents) and collaborate closely with legal teams to ensure that all the inventions are novel and defensible.
AI Software Developer
.NET, AI Integration, On-device AI, SLMs
Part of the development team of a high-impact greenfield on-device AI project that enables the rapid development of AI applications and the seamless integration of on-device AI capabilities into client solutions. I am using for the most part C#, .NET, Microsoft AI, the OpenAI API, and pretrained ONNX models.
- Develop AI services deployed to millions of edge devices used both by consumers and enterprises.
- Lead the development of all on-device Small Language Model (SLM) services delivered in partnership with a major AI hardware vendor.
- Create several custom C# conversational services and a generic service supporting in total more than 30 ONNX SLM models of well-known model providers and multiple compute types (CPU, NPU, GPU, Hybrid).
- Lead the development of 3 C# automatic speech recognition (ASR) services delivered in partnership with 3 major AI hardware vendors, supporting CPU & NPU processing.
- Create SLM evaluation pipelines by writing tests to verify model behavior, ensuring accuracy, safety, and performance compliance.
- Create ASR model evaluation pipelines by writing tests to verify model predictions across formats, sampling rates and word error rates.
Full Stack Software Developer
.NET and React
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.