Florian Marcu
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolFlorian Marcu is an engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building large-scale consumer products, AI-driven discovery, and growth platforms across companies like Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter and OpenAI. He has led cross-functional orgs of 20+ engineers to deliver multimodal visual search, shopping, and inclusive AI features that materially increased engagement and adoption, while running 100+ experiments a year to validate product direction. As a former founder of Instamobile, he bootstrapped a B2B SaaS to 10,000+ customers and $1M+ revenue, owning product, sales and engineering end-to-end. Florian combines deep technical expertise in distributed systems, mobile/web engineering and ML integration with proven org-scaling and cross-company alignment skills. He’s also contributed practical open-source starter projects for React Native + Firebase, reflecting a hands-on approach to developer experience and productized engineering. Based in San Francisco with a Master’s in Distributed Systems, he thrives at the intersection of product, AI, and platform engineering.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Distributed Systems, Master’s Degree Distributed Systems at University of Bucharest"Roman-Voda" National College
Github Skills (14)
user-authentication10
authentication10
navigationbar10
user-interface10
react-native10
ui-design10
graphical-user-interface10
firebase10
navigation-drawer10
navigationview10
javascript9
expo9
userstyle8
styles8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
instamobile/react-native-firebase
May 2020 - Apr 2022
React Native Firebase Starter Project with Auth, Firestore, Storage and Push Notifications
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer
Mobile DeveloperContributions:1 review, 16 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Florian contributed significantly to building the front-end of a React Native Firebase application. Their work focused on implementing the UI/UX for user authentication, including login and registration screens. Key tasks involved setting up navigation, integrating Firebase for user authentication and data persistence, and creating the basic structure of the home screen along with UI elements for adding and listing entities.
reactpushfirestoreexpo-clifirestore-database
dopebase/messenger-iOS-chat-swift-firestore
Sep 2018 - Nov 2022
Messenger Clone - Real-time iOS Chat with Firebase Firestore written in Swift
Contributions:1 review, 29 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 2 months
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