Experience
AI Product Developer, Applied AI
Dell TechnologiesMay 2024 – Present · 2 yrsBucharest, Romania & Remote
I started and drive a 35-item Applied AI intellectual property portfolio where I collaborate with six inventors and multiple legal teams to identify and protect novel AI product concepts and AI capabilities that extend Dell's existing offerings. At the same time I serve as a core engineering contributor to on-device AI services for Dell AI PCs, combining product strategy with hands-on delivery and execution across Hybrid AI, On-device AI, and Agentic AI.
Product Strategy
- Author PRDs for 35 differentiated AI product concepts across eight domains: Efficiency, Resilience, Security, Privacy, Accessibility, Personalization, Field Operations, Agent-Native SDLC.
- Define product strategies aligned with the business strategy. This includes defining use cases, personas, and journey maps.
- Draft technical documents that enable independent execution by engineering teams, including system design, model selection, inference pipeline specifications and alternatives.
- Identify underserved technological whitespace by understanding AI limitations across on-device, cloud, and hybrid deployments, latent user needs, and the state of the market and competitors.
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Represent the development team in discussions with senior leaders from Dell's Software Engineering and CTO organizations and external partners.
Technical Delivery
- Design, develop and deploy on-device inference pipelines across heterogeneous hardware and serve as primary software developer across six on-device SLM services and two ASR services powering privacy-first Conversational AI for Dell AI PCs. The services were featured at CES, DTW and GTC and ship to all Dell AI PC customers across consumer and enterprise environments.
Notable Outcomes
- Built the intellectual property portfolio from zero as an individual contributor, securing more than $750k in funding.
- Filed 12 USPTO patents (10 as first inventor), with 23 more in development.
Product ManagementHybrid AIAgentic AIEdge AI
Software Developer, Web Services
Dell TechnologiesAug 2021 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mosLocation: Bucharest, Romania & Remote
Core contributor to an enterprise web platform that enabled large customers to order fully configured PCs that are ready to be used for their activities.
- Designed, developed and deployed 15 .NET Web APIs in collaboration with eight service teams, integrating capabilities across the platform and helping unify a previously fragmented ordering experience.
- Contributed to the development of React Front-ends and GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Served as a development point of contact for UAT and E2E testing, triaging and resolving cross‑service defects that would otherwise escalate to principal engineers.
- Onboarded seven developers, transferring product knowledge and reducing the team's reliance on tech leads for day‑to‑day operational decisions.
.NET CoreMicroservicesSQLCI/CD