Summary
Octavian Costache is a seasoned technology leader and founder with over 15 years of experience building and scaling product-focused engineering teams and platforms. He co-founded and led engineering at Spring and Stellar Health, growing teams from zero to scale, raising significant funding, and now serving as Chief Data Officer driving an AI-first transition. Earlier at Google he shipped notable user-facing features like Multiple Inboxes and generalized charting components, and in college he built one of Romania’s top-visited gaming sites—signals of a builder who turns ideas into widely used products. He combines hands-on engineering, product intuition, and a people-first leadership style that emphasizes ownership and measurable outcomes. Based in New York with an MS in AI from University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, he thrives at the intersection of healthcare, data, and scalable engineering.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
POLITEHNICA București National University for Science and Technology