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 (32)
maintenance8
ml-project7
web-application7
allocation7
3d-reconstruction7
computer-vision6
structure-from-motion6
nodejs6
las6
full-stack5
image-stitching5
threejs5
browser-game4
python3
memory-mapping3
Programming languages (7)
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
memorypythonschedulingmappingmemory-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
resource-allocationfull-stackweb-applicationallocationnodejs
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