Hello, I am an AI Product Owner who can build, ship, and help teams do the same.
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 Product Owner & Developer
- Originated, built, and shipped a private local AI system that powers acquisition decisions in a commercial niche, running at near-zero marginal cost per query.
- The system combines semantic embeddings, sentiment analysis, and real market data to identify, score, and rank acquisition candidates. The scoring informs the decision rather than making it.
- Advised functional leaders on AI product strategy in an engagement focused on local AI.
AI Product Owner, R&D (Inventor)
Alongside full-time delivery, sustained an AI Product Innovation initiative for two years: optional, competitively funded, and rewarded on results. The invention team was self-managing, with no manager or assigned requirements. Its only authority was the VP-level sponsoring organization, which owned budgets, roadmap, and engineering execution.
Key outcomes:
- Built a 35-invention Applied AI portfolio from zero. (Company-issued proof available on request)
- Filed 22 patent applications as first-named inventor, 11× the average across Dell's ~8,000 all-time inventors.
- Ranked the most active inventor at Dell's Romania site, and in the company-wide top 10% by filed applications.
- Attracted 10 co-inventors across 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.
- Approximately $600k was allocated for the portfolio's protection, further showcasing its relevance.
Responsibilities:
- Originated the inventions, defining the business case and strategy for each.
- Defined the solution architecture for each invention, then hardened it with 9 Principal Engineers who owned the domains being designed into.
- Ran the portfolio as product owner while also developing: set strategy, maintained the backlog, and ran a Kanban flow across parallel inventions.
- 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
Moved to a different business unit, working across two 5-person Scrum teams within two AI initiatives.
Key outcomes:
- Shipped into two products featured at CES and Dell Technologies World, now shipping to all Dell AI PC customers.
- Enabled internal teams and customers to build Hybrid and Agentic Edge AI applications across heterogeneous AI PC fleets.
Responsibilities:
- Owned and built 4 OpenAI-compatible AI APIs (SLM/ASR) across two silicon platforms, each the only Dell offering of its kind on that hardware.
- Delivered inference services across NPUs, GPUs, and CPUs, spanning all 4 silicon targets (AMD, Qualcomm, NVIDIA, Intel).
- Built accuracy, latency, and safety test suites for candidate SLM and ASR models that determined which models shipped.
- Contributed to the redesign of an existing Applied AI desktop application, then to a greenfield Hybrid AI platform.
- Facilitated Daily Scrums for a 5-person inference team, assigning tasks and clearing blockers.
- Resolved defects and dependencies with hardware vendors and 3 other Scrum teams (ML, DevOps, and a consumer).
- Monitored service quality across successive hardware, driver, and dependency versions, catching degradation trends early and re-optimizing.
- Reported progress and impediments to internal and external leaders, including directors and Fellows.
Software Developer
Enterprise web platform enabling large customers to order fully configured PCs, delivered within a 20+ team 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.
Responsibilities:
- Delivered 24 .NET Web APIs consumed by 10 teams.
- Executed delivery strategy for a 12-person team, as one of four core developers.
- Ensured NFR compliance across CI/CD automation, integration testing, security, and observability.
- Monitored service quality across all environments, resolving most issues before production.
- Supported cross-team UAT/E2E testing, and prepared release documentation across 10 releases.
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