I build the technology behind Atherio, a platform that delivers real-time leadership insights, turning leadership guesswork into measurable numbers. That's my full-time focus. On the side, I take on a small amount of advisory work helping engineering teams adopt AI properly.
Advisory availability is limited; I keep a few slots open each quarter.
I started in code. Fifteen-plus years in software architecture and engineering leadership taught me that a CTO's job isn't to ship the most code, it's to build the thing that ships it well: the architecture, the standards, the workflows, and the judgment a team runs on. Output is for individuals. Leverage is the work.
I'm the co-founder and CTO of Atherio, based in Timișoara, Romania. Atherio is a platform that delivers real-time leadership insights, turning leadership guesswork into measurable numbers. My job is the system behind it: how it's built, how it scales, what it costs to serve, and how it stays reliable as it grows.
Running a company is my full-time job, so the advisory and speaking I do are deliberately limited. When I take it on, it's because the problem is interesting and I can genuinely move the needle.
Away from the keyboard, I'm an ultramarathon runner with a thing for backyard ultras, the same stubborn, long-game mindset I bring to building a business.
Building a company takes nearly all of it. The rest goes to a deliberately small amount of advisory work, on problems where I can actually help.
As co-founder and CTO, I own the technology behind Atherio, a platform that delivers real-time leadership insights, turning leadership guesswork into measurable numbers by integrating with the tools teams already use.
Through Cycle-Driven Engineering, the operating model I developed across a 5,000-engineer organization, my own company, and consulting teams, I help engineering organizations build systems that compound every cycle. AI is one accelerator inside that system, not the point.
Conference speaker and panelist with 200+ talks and workshops delivered, on engineering leadership, AI-assisted engineering, and building systems that scale.
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Engineering leadership, product, and AI, from the inside, as I build Atherio in real time. Free, no spam.
I'm heads-down building Atherio, but I keep a few slots open each quarter for work alongside it. If you're introducing AI-assisted engineering, want to turn leadership signals into real data, need an experienced technical partner to lean on, or would love a speaker for your event or meetup, I'd genuinely like to hear about it.