Raul Popa
Co-founder & CEO at TypingDNA
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaul Popa is a serial founder and AI-driven product leader with over a decade building secure, scalable authentication and user-centric web products. As Co-founder and CEO of TypingDNA he has commercialized behavioral biometrics into enterprise-grade continuous authentication and fraud detection, winning backing from Gradient Ventures and recognition from Gartner and Frost & Sullivan. His trajectory spans product-led growth—taking Bannersnack from zero to 1M users—and exits, plus early-stage wins like Techstars NYC, demonstrating both tactical execution and investor credibility. A frequent global speaker and advisor, his policy engagement (including testimony to the European Parliament) helped shape elements of the EU AI Act, reflecting influence beyond engineering. Raul blends interdisciplinary training in psychology, sociology and AI from institutions including MIT and Stanford with multiple patent filings in authentication, revealing a rare mix of human-behavior insight and machine learning rigor. He mentors founders at the intersection of AI, UX and cybersecurity and continues to translate behavioral signals into practical security products used by millions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Psychology, Psychology at Babes-Bolyai UniversityDesigning and Building AI Products and Services Artificial Intelligence, Designing and Building AI Products and Services Artificial Intelligence at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBaccalaureate Mathematics and Physics, Baccalaureate Mathematics and Physics at Emanuil Gojdu National CollegeCommunication and Media Studies, Communication and Media Studies at Malmö UniversityMachine Learning Statistical Learning, Machine Learning Statistical Learning at Stanford University
English, Romanian, French, Italian
Github Skills (9)
datadog10
biometrics10
agent10
integrations10
identity8
recording7
browser7
javascript6
bioinformatics2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
raulpopa/integrations-extras
Oct 2022 - Jan 2025
Community developed integrations and plugins for the Datadog Agent.
Contributions:70 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 3 months
datadog-agentintegrationsagentdatadog
TypingDNA/TypingDnaRecorder-JavaScript
Feb 2017 - Jan 2018
JavaScript class for recording typing biometrics information/typing patterns in the browser.
Contributions:16 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
browserjavascriptbiometricsrecordingpatterns
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