I'm Emanuel Scîrlet, a CTO and engineering leader who builds products and the teams behind them. I combine cloud architecture, AI/ML, and distributed systems to ship scalable platforms that deliver real value and delight customers. I’ve raised funds and built teams from zero to scale. At Contextual I helped raise $1.8M pre-seed and shipped an AI platform from zero to 30 private-beta customers. At AWS I led $25M+ in enterprise innovation programs for BMW, Novartis, and PMI, assembling 50+ person teams and achieving strong client outcomes across 24 engagements. I own P&L, shape product direction, and grow engineering organizations through a strong culture of delivery, security, and customer focus.

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I'm Emanuel Scîrlet, a CTO and engineering leader who builds products and the teams behind them. I combine cloud architecture, AI/ML, and distributed systems to ship scalable platforms that deliver real value and delight customers. I’ve raised funds and built teams from zero to scale. At Contextual I helped raise $1.8M pre-seed and shipped an AI platform from zero to 30 private-beta customers. At AWS I led $25M+ in enterprise innovation programs for BMW, Novartis, and PMI, assembling 50+ person teams and achieving strong client outcomes across 24 engagements. I own P&L, shape product direction, and grow engineering organizations through a strong culture of delivery, security, and customer focus.

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I’m Emanuel Scîrlet, a CTO and engineering leader who builds products and the teams behind them. I combine cloud architecture, AI/ML, and distributed systems to ship scalable platforms that deliver real value and delight customers.

I’ve raised funds and built teams from zero to scale. At Contextual I helped raise $1.8M pre-seed and shipped an AI platform from zero to 30 private-beta customers. At AWS I led $25M+ in enterprise innovation programs for BMW, Novartis, and PMI, assembling 50+ person teams and achieving strong client outcomes across 24 engagements. I own P&L, shape product direction, and grow engineering organizations through a strong culture of delivery, security, and customer focus.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Chief Technology Officer at Contextual
January 1, 2026 - Present
Lead engineering for an end-to-end AI-powered platform; co-owned product strategy; raised ~$1.8M pre-seed; built founding team from zero; delivered MVP in 4 weeks and onboarded 30 customers in private beta.
Principal Application Architect Consultant at Amazon Web Services
September 1, 2018 - January 31, 2026
Led $25M+ enterprise innovation projects across multiple verticals; built and led a 200+ member Application Architecture Community; served as technical GM across engagements; mentored 50+ consultants; led lighthouse migrations; speaker at AWS events.
Senior Software Engineer at Cimpress / Vistaprint
September 1, 2016 - January 31, 2018
Built shipping services platform on 50+ microservices handling millions of orders; integrated manufacturing & logistics; mentored remote team of 6; defined API security strategy (OWASP) and designed high-resilience AWS infrastructure.
Senior Software Developer at NEEO AG
February 1, 2018 - August 31, 2018
Led cloud development for an IoT home automation platform (60,000+ devices); built developer SDKs and deployed AWS log processing pipelines.
Software Engineer at Cimpress / Vistaprint
August 1, 2015 - August 31, 2016
Developed RESTful microservices (Node.js, Java, C#); built performance test plans; automated AWS infrastructure provisioning with Python; implemented API security practices.
Software Consultant / Intern at Cimpress / Vistaprint
January 1, 2014 - May 31, 2015
Developed new features under TDD; contributed to login, runtime console, and status systems.

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science at University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics
January 1, 2012 - January 1, 2015

Qualifications

AWS Certified Solutions Architect
January 11, 2030 - June 8, 2026
AWS Certified Developer
January 11, 2030 - June 8, 2026
AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
January 11, 2030 - June 8, 2026
AWS Certified Security – Specialty
January 11, 2030 - June 8, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment