Summary
Daniel Popescu is a Senior AI Engineer with over a decade of software development experience and four years focused on machine learning, specializing in NLP and building intelligent AI assistants. He has progressed from full-stack and web development roles to leading ML work at MantisNLP and Bonsai Labs, applying state-of-the-art NLP techniques to conversational interfaces and regression-driven models. Daniel combines academic rigor—a top-scoring BSc and a Master's in Software Engineering—with hands-on product delivery, having shipped chatbots that conduct full job interviews and commercial web apps. He enjoys melding diverse techniques to solve real human-device interaction problems and has proven experience turning research into practical, user-facing systems. Based in Iași, Romania, he pairs curiosity-driven experimentation (Kaggle and certifications) with a track record of multi-year project ownership across startups and agencies. An understated strength is his ability to straddle education and industry, having taught programming fundamentals while continuously evolving his ML toolkit.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software engineering, Master's degree, Software engineering at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
Computer Science High School "Grigore Moisil" Iasi
English, germana