Cornel Stefanache
Chief Technology Officer at AscentCore
Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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Top SchoolCornel Stefanache is a CTO and seasoned technology leader with over a decade of experience designing architectures, leading engineering teams, and operationalizing AI in production. Based in Cluj-Napoca, he authored an AI-Augmented Software Development Lifecycle playbook and built agent-ready product patterns that treat AI agents as first-class users, reducing review cycles by up to 60% in practice. His work spans neural networks, agentic AI, optimization architectures combining LLMs with genetic algorithms and physics-aware simulation, and privacy-conscious on-premise AI platforms for sensitive data. Previously a software engineer on privacy-focused projects at MIT SSRC and a founder helping startups scale engineering, he blends deep research (PhD-level AI studies) with pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues know him as a hands-on "code pusher" who still designs low-level solutions—everything from build systems to conversational database explorers—while steering strategic technical vision.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Artificial Intelligence at Technical University of Cluj NapocaFaculty of Machine Building, Industrial Robots, Faculty of Machine Building, Industrial Robots at Universitatea Tehnică din Cluj-NapocaNature and Science Studies, Nature and Science Studies at Liceul Mihai Viteazul Bailesti
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (88)
nodejs-api10
multer10
bower10
image-cropper10
cropper10
middleware9
internationalization9
tensorflowjs9
icu9
localization9
decorators9
readable9
npm-package9
compilation9
translation9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ascentcore/trunk
Mar 2020 - Dec 2020
Research Projects
Contributions:21 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
pythonmachine-learning
cstefanache/cstefanache.github.io
Oct 2014 - Dec 2019
Contributions:76 commits, 2 PRs, 66 pushes in 5 years 3 months
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