Mihai Popescu
Technical Lead at Aardvark Sensing BV
Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolMihai Popescu is a Technical Lead and Staff Software Engineer with 8 years of experience building secure, cloud-native platforms and medical AI systems from research to production. He combines deep ML research (PhD-level work and published COVID-19 modeling) with hands-on infrastructure expertise—leading Kubernetes, Terraform, Vault, and AWS standardization and cost-optimization initiatives. Mihai has driven platform and DevEx improvements at companies like ExpressVPN and WeTransfer and currently leads technical efforts at kaiko.ai while also contributing at Aardvark Sensing. His background spans end-to-end systems: generative models for medical imaging, real-time IoT health platforms, data pipelines, and resilient microservices in Go, Python, and Java. He’s particularly focused on ethical medical AI and translating academic ideas into compliant, production-grade solutions for healthcare. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who blends research rigor with operational discipline to reduce risk and accelerate delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Artificial Intelligence, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence at University of GroningenHigh School Diploma Informatics, High School Diploma Informatics at International Computer Highschool of Bucharest
Russian, Romanian, French, Turkish, English
Github Skills (22)
3d-reconstruction6
full-stack6
ml-project6
las6
computer-vision5
image-stitching4
structure-from-motion4
memory-mapping3
browser-game3
photogrammetry3
texturing3
machine-learning2
simulation2
neural-network2
visual-programming2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
uberVelocity/os-memory-map-process-scheduling
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Scheduling and memory mapping assignment
Contributions:52 commits, 14 PRs, 48 pushes in 5 months
memory-mapping
uberVelocity/Tasker
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Full stack server maintenance and resource allocation web application
Contributions:140 commits, 2 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 months
full-stack
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