Mircea Pașoi
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Co-founder & Head of Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
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Co-founder & Head of EngineeringBrain CoOct 2024 - Current (2 years)- Co-founder & CTO (acquired)Serene AIOct 2023 - Sep 2024 (1 year)
- Angel TrackFirst Round CapitalOct 2021 - Dec 2021 (3 months)Member of First Round's 9th Angel Track Cohort —a masterclass and community for emerging angel investors.
- Head of EngineeringClubhouseJun 2021 - Apr 2023 (1 year 11 months)• Built out a remote-first engineering organization from ~15 engineers to 40+ across iOS, Android, Web, Backend, Discovery/ML, Platform and Infrastructure
• Mentored and developed multiple engineering managers and staff+ engineering talent
• Worked closely with Product, Design, and Data to align on strategy and execute on roadmaps in a fast-paced environment
• Guided the technical roadmap for the company with a focus on velocity, experimentation and scalability - NHead of Growth EngineeringNovi FinancialMar 2020 - May 2021 (1 year 3 months)Novi is a new digital wallet for the Diem (p.k.a. Libra) payment system
- Head of Identity EngineeringCoinbaseMar 2019 - Mar 2020 (1 year 1 month)• Merged with Internal Tools team and reorganized into a 20+ person full-stack org (mobile, web, backend)
• Hired 2 EMs and promoted 1 EM internally
• Drove Security Keys feature that improved security for billions of dollars of assets
• Led engineering strategy for unified onboarding across products (Coinbase, Coinbase Pro) and across web & mobile (using React & React Native) - Engineering Manager, IdentityCoinbaseJan 2018 - Mar 2019 (1 year 3 months)• Started and grew the Identity team from 1 person. Personally recruited and referred multiple Staff+ engineers
• Drove Onboarding initiatives that added +$40M additional revenue and +500K additional users
• Drove Decentralized Identity research (ERC725 prototype: https://github.com/mirceapasoi/erc725-735), team discovery, and acquisition integration (see Techcrunch article) - Co-Founder & CEO (acquired)MemoAIDec 2015 - Jan 2018 (2 years 2 months)Memo.AI was an AI chatbot that made it quick and easy to save and find code snippets, meeting notes, links, Slack messages, or other short work notes – right inside Slack or on the web.
Raised a Seed round of $2M. Built the team to 7 full-time employees and a couple contractors. Led engineering and product. Led acquisition conversations. Eventually, the engineering team was acqui-hired by Coinbase. - Senior Engineering ManagerTwitterFeb 2014 - May 2014 (4 months)Managed an organization of 30+ engineers, including managing 3 other managers (Notifications, Tweet Anatomy, Profiles)
- Engineering ManagerTwitterJul 2012 - Feb 2014 (1 year 8 months)• Managed multiple Growth teams (Email, Notifications, Virality) focused on retention and resurrection
• Sourced & recruited 20+ engineers from personal network - Senior Software EngineerTwitterJan 2012 - Jun 2012 (6 months)• Summify was acquired by Twitter and repurposed as Twitter Email Digest, which added 30M MAU in 2012-2013 (directly attributed to Email Digest)
• Tech Lead in charge of Summify integration - Co-founder (acquired)SummifyFeb 2010 - Jan 2012 (2 years)Summify creates a beautiful daily summary of the most relevant news from your social networks, and delivers it to you by email, web or mobile. Raised money from Accel Partners, Stewart Butterfield and other prominent angel investors. Acquired by Twitter.
- Co-FounderBalaurroMar 2009 - Jan 2010 (11 months)Balaur.ro was one of the leading search engines for the Romanian job market, innovating in terms of technology and user experience.
- Software EngineeruberVU via HootsuiteOct 2008 - Jul 2009 (10 months)
- SSoftware Engineer InternJul 2008 - Sep 2008 (3 months)
- Software Developer InternMicrosoftJul 2007 - Sep 2007 (3 months)
- Co-founder & Vice-presidentinfoarenaroJan 2004 - Aug 2009 (5 years 8 months)
Education
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- Bachelor, Computer ScienceUniversity of BucharestJan 2006 - Jan 2009 (3 years 1 month)
- CComputer Science, Computer ScienceColegiul National I L Caragiale PloiestiJan 2002 - Jan 2006 (4 years 1 month)
Awards
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- 8th place at Topcoder Collegiate Challenge 2007TopcoderNov 200748 finalists chosen after 3 on-line rounds from college students all over the world to participate in a final contest in Orlando, Florida.
- Finalist TopCoder Collegiate ChallengeTopcoderNov 200648 finalists chosen after 3 on-line round from college students all over the world to take part in a final contest in San Diego, California.
- 2nd place in the ACM South–Eastern European RegionalACMOct 2006Qualified for ACM world finals in Tokyo, 12-16 March 2007
- IGold Medal (7th place) at the International Olympiad in Informatics (Merida, Mexico)IOIAug 2006
- CSilver Medal in the Central-European Olympiad in Informatics (Vrsar, Croatia)CEOIJul 2006
- ISilver Medal in the International Olympiad in Informatics (Nowy Sacz, Poland)IOIAug 2005
- BSilver Medal in the Balkan Olympiad in Informatics (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)BOIJul 2004
Publications
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- ASolving Maximum Flow Problems on Real World Bipartite GraphsALENEXJan 2009In this paper we present an experimental study of several maximum flow algorithms in the context of unbalanced bipartite networks. Our experiments are motivated by a real world problem of managing reservation-based inventory in Google content ad systems. We are interested in observing the performance of several push-relabel algorithms on our real world data sets and also on some generated ones.
- LProgramming Fundamentals (series of 3 books for 9th, 10th and 11-12th grades)LS InfomatI co-authored, together with my informatics teacher Dana Lica, 3 books for high-school students. Each book offers a wide variety of programming problems, from basic stuff to really hard contest problems, together with solutions.