Delia Rusu
Senior Principal Data & AI
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Top SchoolDelia Rusu is a Senior Principal Data & AI leader with 12 years of experience applying ML and NLP to fintech, social sciences and public sector problems across startups, scale-ups and government. She has led multidisciplinary teams and built end-to-end AI capabilities—from hypothesis-driven development and MLOps to platform adoption on Azure and AWS—delivering measurable business impact in pricing, reconciliation, segmentation and supply chain optimisation. At Xero she shipped a widely recognised bank reconciliation product that saved small businesses thousands of hours, and at The Warehouse Group she defined the enterprise AI roadmap and drove adoption. A PhD-trained researcher with roots in information extraction and event detection, she blends deep technical expertise with product stewardship and a track record of mentoring and hiring top ML talent. Based in Auckland, she brings a rare combination of academic rigor, production-grade engineering and practical bias-detection experience from government deployments.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl. Ing. Degree Computer Science, Dipl. Ing. Degree Computer Science at Technical University of Cluj-NapocaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at Jozef Stefan International Postgraduate School
Github Skills (4)
issue-tracking8
anaconda5
pydata1
python1
Github contributions (5)
deliarusu/deliarusu.github.io
Oct 2015 - Feb 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 5 months
deliarusu/text-annotation
May 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:9 commits in 3 months
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