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I build products from ambiguity. Over the past 15 years, I’ve partnered with founders and business stakeholders to turn ambitious ideas into production systems that customers use and businesses rely on. My strength is understanding the real problem, making pragmatic technical decisions, and shipping end-to-end solutions with minimal direction. I thrive in early-stage and scaling companies where ownership matters, engineers think like builders, and the goal is delivering real business value. I’ve worked remotely with US and European startups, owning product discovery, architecture, implementation, cloud infrastructure, AI integration, and production operations.…I build products from ambiguity. Over the past 15 years, I’ve partnered with founders and business stakeholders to turn ambitious ideas into production systems that customers use and businesses rely on. My strength is understanding the real problem, making pragmatic technical decisions, and shipping end-to-end solutions with minimal direction. I thrive in early-stage and scaling companies where ownership matters, engineers think like builders, and the goal is delivering real business value. I’ve worked remotely with US and European startups, owning product discovery, architecture, implementation, cloud infrastructure, AI integration, and production operations.

DAN PANU-MISAILESCU

Software Engineer, AI Engineer, DevOps Developer, +1

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I build products from ambiguity. Over the past 15 years, I’ve partnered with founders and business stakeholders to turn ambitious ideas into production systems that customers use and businesses rely on. My strength is understanding the real problem, making pragmatic technical decisions, and shipping end-to-end solutions with minimal direction. I thrive in early-stage and scaling companies where ownership matters, engineers think like builders, and the goal is delivering real business value. I’ve worked remotely with US and European startups, owning product discovery, architecture, implementation, cloud infrastructure, AI integration, and production operations.…I build products from ambiguity. Over the past 15 years, I’ve partnered with founders and business stakeholders to turn ambitious ideas into production systems that customers use and businesses rely on. My strength is understanding the real problem, making pragmatic technical decisions, and shipping end-to-end solutions with minimal direction. I thrive in early-stage and scaling companies where ownership matters, engineers think like builders, and the goal is delivering real business value. I’ve worked remotely with US and European startups, owning product discovery, architecture, implementation, cloud infrastructure, AI integration, and production operations.

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August 10, 2026

San Francisco, United States

I build products from ambiguity. Over the past 15 years, I’ve partnered with founders and business stakeholders to turn ambitious ideas into production systems that customers use and businesses rely on. My strength is understanding the real problem, making pragmatic technical decisions, and shipping end-to-end solutions with minimal direction.

I thrive in early-stage and scaling companies where ownership matters, engineers think like builders, and the goal is delivering real business value. I’ve worked remotely with US and European startups, owning product discovery, architecture, implementation, cloud infrastructure, AI integration, and production operations.

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Work Experience

Lead AI Software Engineer & Interim Software Development Manager at Magic

March 1, 2025 - Present

Led a team of five engineers while remaining hands-on during an interim Software Development Manager sabbatical. Owned engineering execution including 1:1s, mentoring, performance evaluation prep, prioritization with product/business stakeholders, Kanban delivery planning, and on-time execution. Partnered with product leadership to design and deliver AI agents and intelligent automation that increased productivity for 1,000+ human assistants and reduced client churn by more than 30%. Took an AI assistant from ambiguous requirements to production deployment, introducing semantic caching that reduced LLM inference costs by 70% and improved response latency by 10x under peak event traffic. Architected and delivered a production-ready multi-tenant Kubernetes platform on GKE using Terraform supporting isolated AI-powered bot instances and hundreds of thousands of concurrent Telegram users. Built production RAG systems using Redis vector search, and implemented MCP servers on GCP with Kubern

Senior Full Stack AI Engineer at CHAPTR

March 1, 2023 - March 1, 2024

Pioneered development of two AI-powered products: Stori (interactive storytelling for parents and children; featured during Google I/O 2023) and Reedy (AI publishing platform optimizing publishing metadata for discoverability and market alignment). Collaborated cross-functionally to design and implement AI-driven solutions using OpenAI API, Pinecone, GCP, Firebase, React, Python, and Stable Diffusion with prompt engineering and rapid experimentation via Jupyter notebooks. Presented AI expertise at international hackathons including events at Google headquarters in Hamburg and an offsite in Barcelona.

Founding Engineer & VP of Engineering at Livegistics

September 1, 2020 - October 1, 2022

As the company’s first engineer, architected and built the MVP from the ground up and secured a $6M seed round. Built a Google Cloud platform and mobile-first React web app that reduced average processing times from 2 minutes to 15 seconds and boosted material throughput by over 800%. Led end-to-end product discovery across months with industry stakeholders (operators, truck drivers, site managers, waste haulers, accountants, operations teams) translating an ambiguous vision into roadmap and technical strategy. Architected and scaled the platform using GCP, React, Node.js, Firebase, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Pub/Sub. After investment, hired and led a three-engineer team while remaining hands-on, established engineering processes, mentored developers, and drove delivery as the platform evolved. Transitioned product knowledge and architecture to the Detroit headquarters team after an office-first strategy shift.

Senior Full Stack & Cloud Engineer at Toptal (Top 3% global talent pool) / Direct Contracts

August 1, 2016 - September 1, 2020

Architected and built scalable cloud infrastructure, APIs, and full-stack applications for global startups through short-term contract engagements across the US and Europe.

Full Stack Software Engineer at JLG Consulting

February 1, 2013 - August 1, 2016

Owned requirements gathering and development of the Airspace Performance Factor (APF) software project from concept to production deployment. Presented and deployed APF software at the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) headquarters in Dublin, demonstrating impact on enhancing air traffic analysis and operational efficiency.

Full Stack Developer at SelfPay

July 1, 2011 - February 1, 2013

Built core features for a touchscreen-optimized payment platform. Scaled platform architecture in collaboration with cross-functional teams to handle millions of users efficiently.