Dragos Velicanu
Co-Founder, CTO at Meadow AI
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDragos Velicanu is a Co-Founder and CTO with 11 years of experience building machine learning and data science platforms on modern cloud infrastructure, blending rigorous research instincts from a PhD in physics at MIT with product-focused engineering. He transitioned from analyzing terabytes of collision data at CERN to designing low-latency, production-ready data pipelines and autonomous trading systems, then led data engineering at consumer fintech and infrastructure startups before founding Meadow AI. Dragos excels at turning complex, high-throughput data problems into reliable, automated systems—often optimizing for concurrency and real-time ingestion under tight latency constraints. Based in Cambridge, MA, he brings a rare combination of experimental physics discipline, distributed systems practice, and hands-on startup leadership.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS) Applied Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Applied Physics at Columbia Engineering
Github Skills (119)
authentication10
credentials9
python9
backbonejs9
pyflakes9
streamlit9
ansible-collections9
pycodestyle9
validate9
on-the-fly8
jsonpath8
stylelint8
distributed-computing8
jq8
cms7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
velicanu/expenses
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 reviews, 92 commits, 112 PRs in 2 years 8 months
velicanu/tosql
Jan 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:16 PRs, 22 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 2 months
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