Hello, I am an AI Developer with strong Applied AI, Project, Product, Innovation & Delivery skills. I can build and ship what I spec.
I've developed, owned, and shipped AI services featured at CES and DTW. These public services are shipping to all Dell AI PC customers.
I originated and owned an AI Product R&D Portfolio. As a first-named inventor on 22 AI product patent applications, I embed collaborative innovation into the SDLC, so products don't just ship, they evolve.
I understand how developers work and have delivered with distributed teams across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. I have a record of hunting down blockers and communicating trade-offs clearly to leadership.
From time to time I also act as a Trainer, striving to foster a culture of continuous learning, so the people behind the products grow alongside them.
Credentials
- MSc IT Solutions for ManagementASE Bucharest
- PSPO IIscrum.org
- PSM IIscrum.org
- Trainer (ANC)Ministry of Education - Romania
- Innovation Manager (ANC)Ministry of Education - Romania
- Entrepreneurship & InnovationHarvard Business School Online
Experience Overview
5 years of software development
- of which 3 years leading Agile delivery for squads across development and research, while shipping as a developer
- of which 2 years owning production AI services and a Hybrid AI R&D portfolio
- of which 1 year leading a VP-funded R&D initiative and representing the team to external leadership
Technical Overview
I am hands-on and a generalist, so in many cases I can ship working prototypes or production components by myself, if needed.
My depth is in Applied AI and full-stack delivery. For classical ML, infrastructure engineering, and UX, I partner with specialists. Partnering with the right co-inventors and teammates is part of how I ship.
Technical Stack
- Applied AI
- LLM, SLM, ASR, and Embedding Models, AI Agents, MCP, RAG, Vector Databases, OpenAI SDK, ONNX, Hybrid Edge AI, Self-hosted and NPU/GPU Local AI Services
- Back-end
- .NET/C#, SQL, Python, FastAPI
- Front-end
- Next.js / React (AI-assisted)
- Deployment
- GitHub or GitLab CI/CD, Azure or Vercel
Experience
AI Developer & OSS Owner
HybridEdge.AI is a compact AI platform that showcases Applied AI use cases on resource-constrained hardware.
We can also build custom Hybrid & Agentic Edge solutions with higher TOPS, NPU/GPU accelerated, as long as the test hardware and model licenses are available.
- Independent, OEM-agnostic OSS demos are coming soon.
- Originated, built, and shipped a local AI system that powers acquisition decisions in a commercial niche with a known, finite set of candidates. The system runs at near-zero marginal cost per query.
- Advised a client on Hybrid Edge AI product strategy. Edge remains a specialized market today, but I'm positive on its trajectory.
AI Developer / Product R&D Portfolio Owner
Project: Hybrid AI Product R&D Portfolio — Kanban team of 10.
I took the initiative and built the foundation for an IP portfolio spanning Hybrid AI products, which earned me multiple internal innovation awards.
Development & Outcomes
- Initiated and led a VP-funded Product R&D initiative as an IC. Originated and owned 50 formal software product prototypes and filed 22 patent applications as first-named inventor. The invention names are under NDA until July 2027. Company-issued proof is available on request.
- Built working prototypes through full-stack, AI-assisted development across .NET/C#, Python, ONNX Runtime GenAI, and Next.js.
- Ranked as Dell Romania's most active inventor and in the top 20% of inventors in company history (per public statistics).
- Achieved this without a formal innovation mandate or dedicated resources, pitching each invention individually and earning sponsorship through results. The company committed roughly $600k to protecting the portfolio.
Ownership
- Originated product concepts aligned with the company's AI strategy: building AI into its products, applying AI to its internal systems and processes, and delivering AI with its partner ecosystem. Killed the concepts that didn't serve one of these three directions.
- Owned one of Dell's Hybrid AI Product R&D Portfolios: its backlog, business cases, PRDs, solution architectures, and a 4-phase roadmap.
- Prioritized the portfolio with Evidence-Based Management, weighing the Current Value, Unrealized Value, Ability to Innovate, and Time-to-Market.
People & Delivery
- Held 6 presentations within my division. As a result, recruited 9 Principal Engineers as voluntary co-inventors and ran the globally distributed group as a self-managing team, organizing weekly design-thinking sessions.
- Promoted innovation and supported new inventors, which led to co-inventor credit on 3 patent applications outside my portfolio. After I left, one of the Principal Engineers took over the workstream's leadership.
AI Developer, Service Owner & Scrum Master
Project: Commercial Hybrid AI Platform — Core Services team of 5.
I moved into a new AI division as a mid-level developer, after being an early adopter of AI coding tools.
Development & Outcomes
- Owned and single-handedly built 6 OpenAI-compatible AI services (SLM/ASR) across two silicon platforms, with inference running on NPUs and GPUs.
- Owned the services in production, being the point of contact for defects, performance regressions, and integration issues across both silicon platforms.
- Delivered Dell's first NPU-based ASR service from zero to production in 4 months. It was followed by Dell's first ONNX-based SLM services on both AMD and Qualcomm hardware in 5 months. Later contributed to services spanning all four silicon targets (AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Intel).
- Built 2 of the 6 primary function-calling services that enabled Agentic Edge AI across all Dell hardware.
- These commercial, user-facing services ship to every Dell AI PC customer and power capabilities showcased at CES and DTW. Within months of launch, every service was adopted by customers, including teams that couldn't use AI before.
- Enabled internal teams and customers to add SLM and ASR to their AI apps by pointing existing OpenAI code at a local endpoint, cutting time from PoC to production by ~80%. This also strengthened data privacy and eliminated recurring cloud costs.
- Built the accuracy, latency, and safety test suites (MMLU, WER) that vetted every model behind these APIs.
People & Delivery
- Alongside my own services, served as Scrum Master for one of the platform's 5-person squads, without touching their services. The squad consisted of experienced developers who were new to Edge AI.
- Refined the squad's technical user stories and tasks based on discussions with the EM, PDM, TPM, and external vendors.
- Facilitated the squad's Daily Scrum, and resolved cross-team dependencies working with external vendors and 5 partner Scrum teams (ML, HW, Consumers).
Software Developer & Scrum Master
Project: .NET Web Platform Modernization — Scrum team of 4, one of 20+ teams in a scaled-Scrum digital transformation program.
I was promoted to mid as part of a small group trusted with application development and cross-team collaboration.
I led one of the 5 squads building our product, a team of newer engineers, recent joiners, and interns, with my EM managing many squads across the program.
Development & Outcomes
- My team owned end to end the .NET Web API services behind 3 operator-facing modules, built from scratch to replace legacy systems, with partner teams owning the React front-ends.
- From release, our services powered the modules used by all of Dell's factory engineers across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, retiring the legacy ones.
- Improved the services' speed and reliability with self-healing, CI/CD deployments, and complete observability.
- Made sure every deliverable met the program's NFRs, and owned the observability, defect triage, and GitLab CI/CD for every service the squad shipped.
People & Delivery
- Supported the PDM during refinement by adding technical detail to the squad's user stories, so each task could be picked up independently.
- Planned releases with the EM, PDM, and TPM, and was the development point of contact for testing teams, UAT, and 6 partner Scrum teams.
- Resolved cross-team dependencies and integration defects while working with stakeholders distributed across 3 time zones.
- Facilitated the Daily Scrum and onboarded 7 developers of varying experience levels across the program.
Junior Software Developer
Project: .NET microservices across 4 Scrum teams, a rotational track in a scaled-Scrum program of 20+ teams.
- Built .NET Web APIs and automated their testing and deployment with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- Collaborated cross-functionally with the E2E and DevSecOps teams, and with many consumer Scrum teams across the program.
- Took ownership of a production microservice within 6 months. Never missed a release since, including through the later modernization program.
- Rotating across 4 teams gave me an early map of who owned what — the basis for the cross-team work in every role after.
Early Career Experience
I've always liked creativity and people. Software is where the two meet.
- Volunteered for 3 years at SiSC (Cybernetics Students' Union).
- Recruited and coached students across 10 projects that prepared them for their first IT jobs.
- Received a Special Mention Award in McKinsey's Romania Reinvented innovation contest (Jul 2021).
- Completed the Leaders Foundation's Next Generation of Innovators Program and earned IBM's Design Thinking Co-Creator credential (Sep 2021).
- Completed a .NET Software Developer internship at Suvoda (Oct - Dec 2020).
- Spent a Work & Travel summer in Nevada on a fast-paced service team with colleagues from around the world (CHI, Jun - Sep 2019).
Education
Harvard Business School Online
Certificate of Specialization, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Apr 2026 - Aug 2026
A 16-week, 100-hour specialization built from three courses, focused on turning disruptive ideas into viable products and services.
- Design Thinking and Innovation: user research, problem framing, structured ideation across product, service, and business models, and MVP prototyping.
- Disruptive Strategy: disruption theory, Jobs to Be Done, and evaluating opportunities and outcomes through emergent strategy.
- Transforming Customer Experiences: behavior-change models for designing experiences people adopt, and leading the teams and operating model that deliver them.
Skills:Innovation ManagementProduct ManagementStrategyDesign ThinkingTeam Enablement
Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Computer Science, ASE Bucharest
Master's degree, IT Solutions for Management
Sep 2021 - Jul 2023
Skills:Applied AIProject ManagementAgile Application DevelopmentData-driven Decision Making
Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Computer Science, ASE Bucharest
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science for Business
Oct 2018 - Jul 2021
Skills:Web DevelopmentDesktop DevelopmentMobile Application Development