Paul Pantiru
Independent Researcher
Iași, Romania
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolPaul Pantiru is an independent researcher and software engineer with 11 years’ experience across full-stack development, infrastructure ops, applied AI and R&D, formerly driving AI projects and ops at XWiki. He builds practical systems and experimental frameworks—most notably a Python implementation of the Recursive Observer Framework—and researches mechanistic interpretability, cognitive architectures and consciousness theory to inform safer AI. Comfortable from customer-facing support to cloud backups and benchmarking systems, he blends systems thinking with philosophical rigor to connect theory and engineering. Based in Iași, Romania, he deliberately paused conventional roles to pursue deep research into grokking, sparse autoencoders and reservoir computing, aiming to make insights about mind and mechanism actionable for aligned AI.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iași
English, Romanian
Github Skills (27)
php10
tiddlywiki10
xwiki9
management5
administration5
confluence5
cms4
atlassian4
application-management3
crowd3
ckeditor2
macros2
rendering2
project-management2
bug-tracker2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
xwikisas/application-cookie-consent
Aug 2018 - Jan 2023
Contributions:2 reviews, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 4 years 5 months
ppantiru/project-godot
Oct 2019 - Mar 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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