Tibi Stef-praun
Director Data Science And AI At Umbrage, Part Of Bain & Company
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolTibi Stef-praun is a Director of Data Science and AI with deep technical roots and strategic business acumen, currently helping Umbrage and Bain clients harness AI for measurable growth. He pairs a Purdue PhD in Computer Science with an MBA from Chicago Booth, enabling him to translate complex ML systems into executive-ready strategy and scalable products. Over 20 years of hands-on engineering experience—spanning high-performance computing, big data platforms, cloud-native stacks, and production ML—he’s led teams and incubators at Kraft Heinz, Accenture, and multiple startups. As a founder of MetaPartner.AI and Serendipify.Me he explores agent-based decision-making and personalized AI that go beyond retrieval to automate choices and workflows. Colleagues rely on him to both architect robust pipelines and mentor data scientists across the lifecycle from research to deployment. He’s equally at home optimizing computer vision and LLM solutions as he is mapping AI capability to business impact.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Business Administration (MBA) at The University of Chicago Booth School of BusinessBS MS Telecommunications Engineering Electrical Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, BS MS Telecommunications Engineering Electrical Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at Technical University of Cluj NapocaPhD Computer Science Computer Science, PhD Computer Science Computer Science at Purdue UniversityProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SerendipifyMe/GroupDiscoveryAppTemplate
Oct 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
SerendipifyMe/WebDev
Dec 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 4 months
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