Experience
AI Product Developer, Applied AI
Dell TechnologiesMay 2024 – Present · 2 yrsBucharest, Romania & Remote
I lead the development of an Applied AI intellectual property portfolio while serving as a core contributor to on-device AI services for Dell AI PCs, combining product strategy with hands-on delivery across Hybrid AI, On-device AI, and Agentic AI.
Product Strategy
- Identify underserved technological whitespace and develop 25 differentiated AI product concepts across eight domains (Efficiency, Resilience, Security, Privacy, Accessibility, Personalization, Field Operations, Agent-Native SDLC), aligning with Dell's AI strategy and discontinuing initiatives when necessary.
- Drive each concept from opportunity discovery through business-case development, use-case and persona definition, technical design, and visual prototyping, working with a core team of six inventors and multiple legal teams.
Cross-functional Collaboration
- Serve as one of two IC engineering points of contact, representing the development team in discussions with senior leaders from Dell's Software Engineering and CTO organizations and external partners.
- Develop ~50% of the scope across three strategic partnerships with leading AI hardware vendors, from research through launch.
Technical Delivery
- Serve as primary developer across six on-device SLM services and two ASR services powering privacy-first Conversational AI for Dell AI PCs, featured at CES, DTW, and GTC. Services ship to all Dell AI PC customers across consumer and enterprise environments.
- Design and deploy on-device inference pipelines across heterogeneous hardware.
Notable Outcomes
- Built the IP portfolio from zero as an individual contributor, securing more than $750k in committed funding to build and protect it.
- Filed 12 USPTO patents (10 as first inventor), with 13 more in development. The portfolio is positioned to generate value through licensing, strategic partnerships, and competitive defense across 4 product lines, with concepts designed for applicability across both OEM and ISV ecosystems.
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, ready‑to‑use PCs.
- 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