experience

Experience

  • 2026-now
    Scientist
    CrowdStrike
    • Applied research and machine learning for cybersecurity.
  • 2022-2026
    Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer
    Amazon
    • Worked across applied science and machine learning engineering, taking ideas from prototype to production.
    • Built scalable ML workflows, data pipelines, model deployment and retraining systems, and auditing tools on AWS.
    • Researched and prototyped computer vision and multimodal systems for document and product image understanding, including layout detection, open-set object detection, VQA/reasoning with vision-language models, and representation distillation.
  • 2021
    Software Development Engineer Intern
    Amazon
    • Developed a client-side analytics tool.
  • 2020
    Research Intern
    DNSC
    • Researched cybersecurity threats targeting healthcare systems and reviewed 5G security developments in Romania.
  • 2023-now
    Teaching Assistant
    University of Bucharest
    • Artificial Intelligence seminar and lab (undergraduate, 2023-now).
    • Deep Learning lab (master's, 2024-now).