Summary
Dan Ionita is a Chief Information Security Officer and technical product leader with over 15 years of experience uniting secure software development, AI/ML, blockchain and agile product delivery. At Aurachain he drives ISO 27001/SOC 2 compliance while leading development of agentic AI orchestration, RAG-based assistant builders and blockchain-enabled features for a low-code automation platform. He blends hands-on engineering and product ownership—managing 100+ feature roadmaps, SSO/RBAC, API refactors and automated security tooling—while also running a boutique consultancy building privacy-first legal AI and benchmark datasets for frontier LLMs. A PhD-trained researcher who has published 20+ peer-reviewed papers, he uniquely bridges academia, startups and industry with pragmatic risk modeling inventions like a Lego-based approach and privacyrating.info. Comfortable across governance, pentesting, and developer workflows, he’s as likely to present at a conference as to implement an internal InfoSec training program or self-hosted RAG stack. Based in Bucharest, he combines entrepreneurially-minded product delivery with deep technical rigor in security and AI.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information security risk management, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information security risk management at University of Twente
Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 8, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science, 8 at Twente University
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Polytechnic University of Bucharest
High School degree, Computer Science, High School degree, Computer Science at Scoala Centrala Bucuresti
English, Romanian, Dutch