Hello, I am an AI Developer with strong Applied AI, Delivery, Product & Innovation 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 have delivered with distributed teams across the Americas, Europe, and Asia, working cross-functionally with UX, DBA, DevSecOps, E2E, Support, Legal, Vendors and External Counsel from the start. 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
Next Steps
I'm looking for a Technical AI Product Owner, AI Project Manager, or AI Delivery role. I am open to similar positions. The scope matters more to me than the title or where I sit.
Experience Overview
5 years of software development as an IC, including:
- 3 years leading Agile delivery for squads across development and research, while shipping as a developer
- 2 years owning production AI services and a Hybrid AI R&D portfolio
- 1 year leading a VP-funded R&D initiative and representing the team to external leadership
Technical Overview
My depth is in Applied AI and full-stack delivery, so I can often ship working prototypes or production components by myself. Beyond that, I partner with specialists. Finding 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
- Deployment
- GitHub or GitLab CI/CD, Azure or Vercel
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Experience
AI Developer / Product R&D Portfolio Owner (IC)
Project: Hybrid AI Product R&D Portfolio — Kanban team of 10.
Once the Hybrid AI platform stabilized, I took the initiative and built the foundation for an IP portfolio spanning Hybrid AI products.
Development & Outcomes
- Initiated and led a VP-funded Product R&D initiative as an IC. Originated and owned 35 formal software product prototypes across .NET/C#, Python, ONNX Runtime GenAI, and Next.js.
- Filed 22 patent applications as first-named inventor. I have company-issued proof for all 35 prototypes and can share it on request until they become public.
- Ranked as Dell Romania's most active inventor and in the top 20% of inventors since 1984, by number of filings, per public USPTO statistics.
- Achieved this without a formal innovation mandate or dedicated resources, pitching each invention individually. Earned sponsorship and multiple innovation awards 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 with Evidence-Based Management.
People & Delivery
- Held 6 presentations within my division. As a result, recruited 9 voluntary co-inventors, Principal Engineers specialized across Security, ML, Data Science, Infrastructure, and Hardware. Ran the globally distributed group as a self-managing team, organizing weekly design-thinking sessions.
- Coached engineers across the division on turning their own ideas into invention disclosures, as others had done for me.
- Once the prototyping work was complete and only support and review remained, I handed the portfolio over to one of my co-inventors.
AI Developer & Scrum Master (IC)
Project: Commercial Hybrid AI Platform.
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. I owned their research, development, testing, and deployment (referencing Dell's templates), using models pre-optimized by the hardware vendors.
- 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. Built the accuracy, latency, and safety test suites (MMLU, WER) that vetted every model behind these services.
- Built and owned 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.
People & Delivery
- Alongside my own services, served as Scrum Master for a 5-person squad that owned half of the platform's NVIDIA & Intel AI 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, and TPM, facilitated the Daily Scrum, and resolved cross-team dependencies with 5 partner Scrum teams (ML, HW, Consumers).
Software Developer & Scrum Master (IC)
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.
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.
- Owned the program's NFRs, observability, defect triage, and GitLab CI/CD for every service the squad shipped, and improved the services' speed and reliability with self-healing deployments.
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.
I already held the IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator credential when I joined Dell.
I had more product ideas than the engineering skill to build them, so I took a software development position to close that gap.
- Built .NET Web APIs and automated their testing and deployment with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
- 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 Experience
I've always liked creativity and people. Software is where the two meet.
- Volunteered for 3 years at the Cybernetics Students' Union. Recruited and coached students across 10 projects that prepared them for their first IT jobs.
- Took part in student innovation projects and received a Special Mention Award in McKinsey's Romania Reinvented student innovation contest.
- Completed a .NET Software Developer internship at Suvoda (Oct - Dec 2020).
Education
Harvard Business School Online
Certificate of Specialization, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Apr 2026 - Jul 2026
A 16-week, 100-hour specialization program 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: designing customer experiences, 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:Project 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:Project ManagementWeb DevelopmentDesktop DevelopmentMobile Application Development