Summary
Horia Coman is a seasoned engineering leader with 16 years of experience and over seven years in management, currently serving as Site Lead and Director of Engineering at Stripe where he runs teams responsible for the "physical layer" of money movement and helps grow the Bucharest site to 100+ engineers. He has a strong background across adtech, real-time systems, geo and platform engineering from earlier roles at Google, Stack Overflow, and Bolt, where he scaled platform orgs to 100+ engineers and shipped systems for maps, delivery, and large-scale data processing. Equally comfortable in research and production, his academic work in machine learning and computer vision underpins a hands-on curiosity that spans front-end frameworks to AI hardware. Horia is experienced in bootstrapping tech hubs, establishing org-wide processes, and partnering with banks, payment schemes and crypto firms to move and store money globally. He combines deep technical fluency with pragmatic people leadership and a track record of building high-impact engineering sites from scratch.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Master of Science (MSc), Machine Learning, Computer Vision at The University of Luebeck
Master's Degree, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Data Mining, Master's Degree, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Image Processing, Data Mining at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
English, Romanian