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.
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, develop and deploy on-device inference pipelines across heterogeneous hardware using Microsoft ONNX GenAI with execution providers for AMD Ryzen AI, Qualcomm QNN, Intel OpenVINO and NVIDIA CUDA.
Notable Outcomes
- Built the IP portfolio from zero as an individual contributor, securing more than $750k in funding.
- 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 PCs that are ready to be used for their activities.
- 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