Projects

AI Product Owner on a self-initiated, VP-funded Product R&D initiative, delivered with a Kanban team of 8. Ideated 60 formal software product prototypes and filed 22 patent applications as first-named inventor. Delivered 14 additional inventions that were recognized but not filed as patents, with the remainder complete and in flight.

Ranked as Dell Romania's most active inventor and among the top 20% of inventors in company history (per public company statistics).

Achieved this without a formal innovation mandate or dedicated resources, pitching each invention individually and earning sponsorship through results. The company committed roughly $600k to protecting the portfolio.

Owned the Product R&D backlog, business cases, PRDs, solution architectures, and a 4-phase roadmap. The roadmap came from observing applications across my division. Recruited 7 Principal Engineers as voluntary co-inventors and ran the group as a self-managing team.

Facilitated weekly design-thinking sessions with engineers, challenging and refining ideas into capabilities for new AI products.

Built Visio diagrams and working prototypes through full-stack, AI-assisted development across .NET/C#, Python, ONNX Runtime GenAI, the OpenAI API, CI/CD pipelines, Windows installers (WiX), and Next.js.

Promoted innovation and supported new inventors. As a result, became a co-inventor on 3 other patent applications outside of my portfolio.

AI Software Developer & Scrum Master on a Scrum team of 5. Owned and built all 6 OpenAI-compatible conversational AI services (SLM/ASR) across two silicon platforms, with inference running on NPUs and GPUs.

Delivered Dell's first NPU-based ASR service from zero to production in 4 months. It was followed by Dell's first ONNX-based SLM services on both AMD and Qualcomm hardware in 5 months.

Built 2 of the 6 primary function-calling services that enabled Agentic Edge AI across all Dell hardware. As a result, my services were integrated into many other consumer applications built by internal teams and customers.

These commercial, user-facing services ship to every Dell AI PC customer and power capabilities showcased at CES and DTW. Within months of launch, every service was adopted by customers, including non-consumers who previously couldn't use AI for their use cases.

Enabled internal teams and customers to add SLM and ASR to their AI apps by pointing existing OpenAI code at a local endpoint, cutting time from PoC to production by ~80%. This also strengthened data privacy and eliminated recurring cloud costs.

Built the accuracy, latency, and safety test suites (MMLU, WER) that vetted every model behind these APIs.

Scrum team of 5, one of 20+ teams in a scaled-Scrum digital transformation program. Owned 3 web applications (modules) that I built from scratch to replace legacy systems. They consisted mainly of .NET Web APIs and React forms.

From release, my modules were used by all of Dell's factory engineers across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and the legacy ones were retired.

Improved the system's speed and reliability, with self-healing mechanisms, smoother deployments and maintenance via CI/CD, and complete observability.

As operator-assistance tools, the modules reduced the cognitive load on factory engineers, who previously had to navigate fragmented legacy experiences.

Planned releases with the EM, PO, and RTE, and was the point of contact for testing teams and 6 downstream partner Scrum teams, resolving cross-team dependencies and integration defects.

Made sure every deliverable met the program's NFRs, and owned the observability, defect triage, and GitLab CI/CD for everything I shipped. Facilitated the Daily Scrum, onboarding 7 developers of varying experience levels across the program.