Robert-andrei Damian
Chief Technology Officer at Minimist
Bucharest, Romania
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert-andrei Damian is a CTO and data engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, on-premise and desktop systems, and over seven years driving product development at early-stage startups. He blends hands-on machine learning (PyTorch, transformers, foundational VLMs) and software engineering skills to deliver scalable ML systems in production, having automated large portions of workflows and cut infrastructure costs through pragmatic architecture choices. At Panprices he led a product used by global design brands, improved entity resolution with a novel contrastive learning approach, and orchestrated data pipelines across GCP services; at Minimist he advanced inventory digitization with scanner-based ML solutions. He is academically grounded with multiple master’s level studies (KTH, Sorbonne) and keeps learning through MOOCs and self-driven projects, reflecting a continuous growth mindset. Notably, he has experience hiring and mentoring researchers and engineers while moving prototypes into robust, tested Java and Python production systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
LEADERS FoundationMathematics and Computer Science, Mathematics and Computer Science at Gheorghe Rosca Codreanu CollegeKTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at Åbo AkademiEntrepreneurship Training, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship Training, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at The CantillonMaster's degree, Cloud and Network Infrastructure, Master's degree, Cloud and Network Infrastructure at Sorbonne UniversitéBachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at Universitatea „Politehnica” din București
Romanian, English, French
Github Skills (137)
crawlee10
http10
proxy10
automation10
crawler10
hubspot10
cheerio10
javascript10
webscraping10
browser-automation10
ai10
html10
puppeteer10
code4ro10
shopify10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
damianr13/ahum
Feb 2024 - Apr 2025
Contributions:5 PRs, 9 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 2 months
damianr13/master-thesis-kth
Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:104 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
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