Damian Podareanu
Technical Officer at SURF
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDamian Podareanu is a technical leader with nine years of experience specializing in machine learning, high-performance computing and quantum-enabled algorithms. Based in Amsterdam, he led SURF’s High-Performance Machine Learning group for over four years and now serves as a Technical Officer, translating research-grade AI and quantum ideas into scalable production capabilities. His background spans applied ML, NLP for social media, time-series signal processing, and ontology-driven services, reflecting a rare mix of academic research and production engineering. Damian has driven teams that bridge theoretical advances and practical deployments, improving organizational efficiency and enabling cutting-edge applications across domains. He holds master’s degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computer Architectures, and early work building JVM emulation and embedded kernels hints at deep systems-level fluency beneath his AI focus. Quietly technical and outcomes-driven, he combines hands-on prototyping with team-building to make complex computational ideas work in the real world.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Colegiul Național „Mihai Viteazul” BucureștiMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at University of GroningenPOLITEHNICA București National University for Science and TechnologyBachelor's degree Informatics, Bachelor's degree Informatics at University of Bucharest
Romanian, English, Spanish, Dutch
Github Skills (8)
generative-adversarial-network2
quantum-computing2
reinforcement-learning1
pytorch1
computer-vision1
qubit1
deep-reinforcement-learning1
deep-learning1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sara-nl/3Dgan
May 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
sara-nl/automl
Jul 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 17 pushes, 3 branches in 1 month
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