Catalin Caldararu

AI Product Developer Specialized in AI PC Agents, Hybrid AI and Innovation

First inventor on 14 Applied AI patents filed with the USPTO

About me

I am a people and outcome-oriented product developer focused on the research and development of innovative AI products, working alongside global teams spanning software & hardware engineering, ML, DevOps, testing, and legal.

I strive to embed collaborative innovation and learning into the software delivery lifecycle — so that the products and teams I work with don't just ship, they grow and remain relevant in changing markets.

Contact information

Site
catalincaldararu.com
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/catalin-caldararu
Location
Bucharest, Romania & Remote
Languages
English · Proficient Romanian · Native

Top Skills

Innovation Management

Initiated a Product R&D workstream and lead a 35-item Applied AI intellectual property portfolio focused on AI PC Agents and Hybrid Edge AI.

Hybrid Edge AI

Experienced in overcoming Cloud AI limitations by using or building local AI solutions, including customized edge inference services.

AI Product Ownership & Agile Delivery

PSPO II and PSM II certified, with 5 years of experience working across Scrum and Kanban teams and 3 years of cross-functional collaboration as a developer.

Focus Areas

  • Product Innovation

  • Applied AI

  • Hybrid Edge AI

  • Agentic AI

Experience

Senior AI Product Developer, Inventorship Contract

Dell Technologies, ContractJun 2026 - Present · 1 moBucharest, Romania · Remote

Continue driving the completion of my Dell Applied AI patent application portfolio, 18 applications currently in development with me as first inventor.

Product ManagementInnovation ManagementApplied AIAgentic AIHybrid Edge AIEdge AI

Senior AI Product Developer, AI PC Agents & Hybrid AI

Dell Technologies, Full-timeMay 2024 - May 2026 · 2 yrs 1 moBucharest, Romania · Remote

Initiated and led a Product R&D workstream that has resulted in a 35-item Applied AI patent application portfolio focused on AI PC Agents and Hybrid Edge AI. In this role I collaborated with 10 inventors and multiple legal teams to identify, protect and develop novel AI product concepts and capabilities that extend Dell's existing offerings.

Key responsibilities

  • Served as lead and primary engineering contributor to 6 on-device SLM services and 2 ASR services powering privacy-first conversational AI for Dell AI PC Agents across 2 hardware platforms.
  • Originated PRDs for 35 differentiated AI product concepts across multiple domains — Security, Privacy, Resilience, Efficiency, Accessibility, Personalization, Digital Wellness, Automation, Agent-Native SDLC etc.
  • Defined product and patent strategies aligned with business objectives, along with end-to-end solution architectures enabling independent engineering execution.
  • Identified underserved technological whitespace by analyzing AI limitations across on-device, cloud, and hybrid deployments, latent user needs, and the competitive landscape.
  • Represented the development team in discussions with senior leaders from Dell's Software Engineering and CTO organizations and external partners.

Notable Outcomes

  • Built the intellectual property portfolio from zero, securing more than $1M in funding.
  • Filed 17 USPTO patent applications (14 as first inventor), with 18 additional applications in development as first inventor.
  • Delivered 8 AI services that ship to all Dell AI PC customers and are used or referenced internally by teams developing AI PC Agents and related patents.
Product ManagementInnovation ManagementApplied AIAgentic AIHybrid Edge AIEdge AI

Software Developer, Web Services

Dell Technologies, Full-timeAug 2021 - Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 9 mosBucharest, Romania · Remote
  • Built .NET microservices, React Front-ends and GitLab CI/CD pipelines in collaboration with 8 other teams.
  • Starting from my second year I also onboarded 7 developers, took on Scrum Master duties and led cross-team UAT/E2E defect triage on rotation.
.NET CoreMicroservicesSQLCI/CDScrum@Scale

Education

  • Harvard Business School Online

    Certificate of Specialization, Entrepreneurship & Innovation

    Apr 2026 – Jul 2026

    A 16-week, 100-hour online specialization following Harvard's case-based model, where I learn alongside a global cohort of peers. Topics: Strategy, Disruptive Innovation, Design Thinking, Human-centered Design, User Behavior and Customer Experience. Frameworks added to my product toolkit: Clayton Christensen's Jobs-to-be-done, Systematic Inventive Thinking, and three Design Thinking methodologies — IBM's EDT, IDEO, and LUMA.

  • Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Computer Science, ASE Bucharest

    Master's degree, IT Solutions for Business & Project Management

    Sep 2021 – Jul 2023

  • Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Computer Science, ASE Bucharest

    Bachelor's degree, Computer Science for Business

    Oct 2018 – Jul 2021

Certifications

  • Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II)
  • Professional Scrum Master II (PSM II)