Work with me

Build.

Costin on the TEDx Vienna stage.

About this chapter.

This is the place for my professional side. I'm a Product Management leader with an engineer's heart, and I love building things people actually want to use.

I studied Computer Science and Engineering, then did a master's in NLP and AI, with a thesis on fake news detection. I started as a software engineer and moved into Product Management, where I've been for years now. I still like being close to engineers.

Along the way I did entrepreneurial work, built projects of my own and worked in companies of every size. Lately, I work where Product Management, open source and AI that runs on your device meet.

How I can help

Work with me

01

From concept to launch

You bring the idea. I help you shape it, build a V1 and, when it's ready, ship it to production.

02

Product Management

Discovery, strategy and roadmaps, close to the engineers who build them.

03

AI

I keep up with the AI trends and love experimenting. Happy to build with it, or to advise on where it fits.

04

Advising and mentorship

One-on-ones and short calls, for founders and product people.

The road so far

  1. Product Management Services

    2025 โ†’ now

    • For an open-source, local-first SDK that runs AI on device.

      • ๐Ÿ”“ Open source
      • ๐Ÿ“ฑ On-device AI
      • ๐Ÿ”’ Privacy
      • ๐Ÿงญ Product strategy
  2. Snyk

    2023 โ†’ 2025

    • Senior Product Manager2024 โ†’ 2025

      CLI and IDE integrations used by 1M+ developers, AI-powered fixes and MCP integrations.

      • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Developer tools
      • ๐Ÿค– AI fixes
      • ๐Ÿ”Œ MCP
    • Product Manager2023 โ†’ 2024

      Owned the automated fix experience and doubled the fix-PR merge rate.

      • ๐Ÿ” Security
      • โšก Shape Up
  3. Hootsuite

    2020 โ†’ 2023

    • Product Manager, Analytics2022 โ†’ 2023

      Analytics and recommendation tools used by big brands.

      • ๐Ÿ“Š Analytics
      • ๐Ÿ’ก Recommendations
    • Backend Software Engineer2020 โ†’ 2022

      Social media API integrations, data pipelines and efficient processing of social posts at scale. Where I moved from engineering into product.

      • ๐Ÿ”Œ Social APIs
      • โš™๏ธ Data pipelines
      • ๐Ÿ” Engineer to PM
  4. Karat

    2022 โ†’ now

    • Expert Technical Interviewer (part-time)

      300+ technical interviews for top tech companies.

      • ๐Ÿงฎ Algorithms
      • ๐Ÿ—๏ธ System design
  5. Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

    2020 โ†’ 2021

    • NLP Research Assistant

      Fake news detection for Romanian with BERT models. 2 papers as lead author.

      • ๐Ÿง  NLP
      • ๐Ÿ“„ Research
  6. Eau de Web (ogor.ro)

    2019 โ†’ 2020

    • Backend Engineer

      AgTech on satellite imagery. Best Business Award, Innovation Labs 2020.

      • ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ Satellite data
      • ๐ŸŒพ AgTech
  7. Bloomberg

    2018 โ†’ 2019

    • Software Engineer InternNew York2019

      An internal support tool: lookups from 2 minutes to 15 seconds.

    • Software Engineer InternLondon2018

      An alert delivery microservice, shipped to production.

  8. University Politehnica of Bucharest

    2018 โ†’ now

    • Teaching Assistant, on and off

      HCI, programming in C, data structures and OOP in Java.

      • ๐ŸŽ“ Teaching
  9. Amazon Web Services

    2017

    • Software Engineer Intern

      Debug tooling for devices with no screen, shipped.

  10. ORTEC CEE

    2016

    • Intern

      Built a Xamarin app for an internal use case.

      • ๐Ÿ“ฑ Xamarin

Studies and research

Things in flight

The extra mile

Entrepreneurial experiments and projects I co-founded or built on my own.

Live

actemiri.ro

Co-founded. Helps Romanians cut the research for their marriage paperwork, with a complicated process brought into one place. Free, no account needed.

actemiri.ro
Live

Second brain

My own AI operating system. It digests my newsletters, turns my sports metrics into training insights, tunes my calendar, helps me plan my trips and much more.

Past

my-reputAItion

Helped business owners stay on top of their Google Maps reviews, reply to them, engage their reviewers and read the sentiment. Ran with a few locations in Romania.

Past

Tech and career podcast

Advice Collection, a podcast for students in tech. Episodes still live, 2,000+ hours listened, finalist in Next Big Vlogger.

Past

ศ˜coala Digitalฤƒ

Co-founded. Digestible lessons for students preparing for the university admission exam in computer science. I made, edited and published videos on our YouTube channel. I'm no longer involved, and my co-founder keeps it going.

A TEDx talk in Vienna

Why travel is the worst passion you can have, and why I keep doing it anyway.

Public speaking is one of my biggest passions. Giving a TEDx talk was an amazing experience, and I built it right where my chapters meet: my career, exploring and creating.

Building something cool and need a hand? Let's get in touch.

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