Summary
Adrian Popa is a Technical Lead and Staff Engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale systems across healthcare, finance, and market research. He blends deep engineering work—ML Ops, multi-GPU AI model evaluation, Terraform-driven cloud infrastructure—and legacy-to-modern integrations from .NET desktop apps to Node/React web platforms. Adrian has led and mentored teams through fast transitions, implemented KPIs and delivery processes as a Director of Engineering, then intentionally returned to individual contributor work focused on AI and automation. He has delivered high-compliance clinical platforms, credit decisioning systems, and terabyte-scale GIS pipelines, often solving thorny deployment and integration challenges for US enterprises. Based in Romania with a background in mathematics and statistics, he brings a data-first mindset and a knack for automating repetitive workflows that once made him an award-winning statistician.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics and Computer Science at University of Bucharest