Hello, I am an AI Software Developer with a proven record of product innovation and delivery.
I have hands-on experience across .NET AI Systems and Applied AI, including Edge AI, Hybrid AI, and Agentic AI.
As first-named inventor on 22 Applied AI patent applications, I strive to embed collaborative innovation and learning into the software delivery lifecycle, so the products and teams I work with don't just ship, they grow and remain relevant in changing markets.
I'm also an advanced Agile practitioner (PSPO II & PSM II Certified). I've applied Scrum, Kanban, and Extreme Programming (XP) inside real AI initiatives.
I am open to remote B2B/B2C engagements and full-time roles.
Top Skills
Innovation Strategy
AI Product Delivery
AI Development
Experience
AI Software Developer, Innovation Team Lead
Alongside full-time delivery, sustained an AI Product Innovation initiative for two years: optional, competitively funded, and rewarded on results. The scope covered redesigning existing applications and identifying new products worth building. The invention team was self-managing, with no manager and no assigned requirements, answering only to the VP-level sponsoring organization that owned budgets, engineering roadmap, and engineering execution.
Key outcomes:
- Built a 35-invention Applied AI portfolio from zero, 22 of which advanced to filed patent applications. (Company-issued proof available on request)
- Filed all 22 as first-named inventor, ranking as the most active inventor at Dell's Romania site and in the top 10% company-wide.
- Attracted 9 Principal Engineers as co-inventors in their own domains, with no authority requiring them to join.
- Invented across 8 domains: Security, Privacy, Resilience, Efficiency, Accessibility, Personalization, Automation, and Agent-Native SDLC.
- The company committed roughly $600k to protecting the portfolio.
Responsibilities:
- Originated the inventions, defining the business case and strategy for each.
- Defined the solution architecture for each invention, then hardened it with those Principal Engineers in the domains being designed into.
- Managed the R&D portfolio while also developing: owned the backlog, set the strategy, and ran a Kanban flow.
- Created PRDs complete enough for an engineering team or a coding assistant to implement with minimal oversight.
- Converted PRDs into filed applications with 4 patent attorneys, reviewing and approving each.
- Pitched every invention to engineering and legal leaders, including formal reviewers.
(Stats per IDiyas Public Statistics)
AI Software Developer, Hybrid AI
Moved to a new business unit, working across two 5-person Scrum teams within two AI initiatives.
Key outcomes:
- Sole engineer for the function-calling SLM and ASR services across two silicon platforms in a Hybrid AI product featured at CES and Dell Technologies World, shipping to every Dell AI PC customer.
- Built the API layer exposing existing AI services in a second product, also featured at CES and shipping to all Dell AI PC customers.
- Delivered Dell's first NPU-based ASR service from zero to production in 4 months.
- Took both types of services to production on a second silicon platform in 7 months, each the only Dell service of its kind on that hardware, supporting inference on NPUs, GPUs, and CPUs.
- With the team, delivered an integration layer that let internal teams and customers add SLM and ASR to their applications without building inference stacks themselves, keeping data on-device and cutting cloud inference costs.
- Services reached production use within months of launch, including by IT professionals and organizations with privacy-first requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Built the accuracy, latency, and safety test suites (MMLU, WER) that benchmarked every candidate SLM and ASR model ahead of shipping.
- Resolved defects and dependencies with hardware vendors and three partner Scrum teams (ML, DevOps, and a consumer team).
- Caught quality degradation early by monitoring service performance across successive hardware, driver, and dependency versions, then re-optimizing before it reached customers.
- Upskilled colleagues across the program on on-device AI, contributing to services spanning all four silicon targets (AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Intel).
- Reported progress and impediments to internal and external leadership, including directors and Fellows.
- Ran Daily Scrum for the 5-person inference team for a year.
Software Developer, Web Services
Enterprise .NET web platform enabling large customers to order fully configured PCs, delivered within a 20+ team scaled Scrum modernization program.
Key outcomes:
- Replaced 6 legacy modules with modern services, improving performance and UX.
- Onboarded 7 developers of varying experience levels, expanding the team's delivery capacity.
- Adopted GitHub Copilot as an early user and drove adoption across my team ahead of the company-wide rollout, leading to my move into the AI division.
Responsibilities:
- Owned the service supplying the system configuration data that drove the install system's imaging decisions.
- Owned the data aggregation service that external partners integrate against, providing a single interface for outbound company data.
- Built the operator-facing assembly instruction service, consolidating instructions from 4 sources into one interface and replacing navigation across 5 screens in the legacy monoliths.
- Built the coordination service enabling factory team leads to manage work across the floor, along with the underlying task model, replacing a workflow similarly fragmented across the monoliths.
- Ensured the team's NFR compliance across CI/CD automation, integration testing, security, and observability.
- Drove delivery strategy for a 12-person team as one of 4 core developers, working with the 10 teams consuming our services.
- Monitored service quality across environments and triaged defects across the ecosystem, resolving most issues before they reached production.
- Took over GitLab CI/CD after the team's DevOps engineer left, maintaining pipeline and release automation with no replacement hire.
Education
Harvard Business School Online
Certificate of Specialization, Entrepreneurship & Innovation
Apr 2026 – Jul 2026
A 16-week, 100-hour online specialization program spanning three modules: Disruptive Strategy, Transforming Customer Experiences, Design Thinking and Innovation
Skills:StrategyCustomer ExperienceDesign ThinkingProduct InnovationInnovation Management
Faculty of Economic Cybernetics, Statistics and Computer Science, ASE Bucharest
Master's degree, IT Solutions for Management
Sep 2021 – Jul 2023
Skills:Agile Application DevelopmentData-driven Decision MakingProject Management
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
Certifications
Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO™ II)
Issued by scrum.orgSkills:Product ManagementScrum
Professional Scrum Master II (PSM™ II)
Issued by scrum.orgSkills:Agile Application DevelopmentScrum
Google Project Management Certificate
Issued by Google & CourseraSkills:Project ManagementAgile Application Development