Product Lead & Senior Product Manager with 10+ years shaping digital products across startups and scaleups. Built and scaled consumer and SaaS platforms from 0→1 to 1.1M+ users. Now building with AI daily, shipping production tools with Claude Code, productizing ML in safety-critical aviation, and rethinking product management when the cost of building approaches zero.
Experience
Comply365 · AI & Aviation Safety · Spain
- Leading Intelligence squad building AI-powered Safety Management Systems for major airlines (Delta, Lufthansa)
- Productizing NLP pipeline: transformer-based classifiers, semantic search over safety reports, pattern detection for emerging trends
- Shipping RAG-powered insights chatbot, auto-labeling engine, and dynamic taxonomy generation
- Hands-on technical: scoping embeddings strategies, defining model evaluation criteria, designing end-to-end data pipelines
Bliq · Rideshare Marketplace · Berlin / Remote
- Led pivot from driver utility to passenger marketplace competing with Uber, Bolt, FREENOW across 5 EU markets
- Shipped marketplace MVP in 3 months, scaled to 1.1M+ users in Germany & Poland
- Launched Wallet Top-Up: +121% searches, +113% orders, +61% trips, +26% spend/trip
- Redesigned onboarding & payments: +397% install-to-account CVR, +88% search-to-trip, +52% retention
- Designed Bliq PRO subscription with loyalty packs, ride credits, and fixed-price guarantees
- Built and led product team of 6 from scratch with 100% retention over 3 years
PlayaMedia · Dating Marketplace · Barcelona / Remote
- Optimized paywall, trial, and conversion funnels for subscription dating marketplace
- Redesigned profile creation flow, reducing onboarding drop-offs and improving match quality
Passion.io · No-code Creator Platform · Berlin / Remote
- Cut time-to-publish from 30 days to 7 by streamlining app-builder UX
- 3x MRR, 5x MAU during tenure through tiered subscription models and bundled offerings
- Coordinated cross-functional sprints with engineering, design, and support
NeuralCam · AI Camera Apps · Cluj-Napoca / Remote
- Shipped NightMode, 1M+ downloads, top App Store photography category
- Press coverage in WIRED, VentureBeat, The Next Web. Product Hunt #1 Product of the Day
- Led AI model training pipeline: 24hr on-device style-transfer training for personalized editing
- Managed subscription funnels across 3 products (NightMode, NeuralCam Live, ProStyle Cam)
3Pillar Global · NPR, PBS, Media Clients · Cluj-Napoca / Remote
- Launched RAD (Remote Audio Data), open-source podcast analytics standard with NPR
- Led discovery workshops and delivered MVPs for large-scale US media platforms
Product Analyst · Fortech · E-commerce Clients
Apr 2015 – Mar 2017
Front-end Developer · Emerson · Internal Tooling, EMEA
Mar 2014 – Apr 2015
IT SecOps & Mobile Analyst · Siemens · Infrastructure & InfoSec
Apr 2011 – Mar 2014
Projects (Built with Claude Code)
Whisper transcription + FunASR diarization + Ollama analysis. Word-level seek, full pipeline in Claude Code.
Product management framework for when AI collapses engineering effort to near-zero.
B2G SaaS cross-referencing Airbnb listings with official registries. Geospatial dashboard + compliance scoring.
Skills
Product
0→1, Growth & Retention, Marketplace Dynamics, Monetization, OKRs, Roadmap Ownership
Data & AI
Python, SQL, NLP, ML Pipelines, A/B Testing, Amplitude, Mixpanel, BigQuery, Looker
Design & Dev
Figma, Framer, HTML/CSS/JS, Claude Code, Cursor, Webflow
Leadership
Cross-functional teams, Stakeholder alignment, Agile/Scrum, Coaching & mentorship
Languages
English (fluent), Romanian (native), Spanish (working)
Education
Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies · Cybernetics, Statistics & Economical Informatics
Press
WIRED
VentureBeat
The Next Web
Product Hunt #1
DPReview
NPR (RAD launch)