Tailored solution architecture
Breaking down a specific need into a coherent system, delivery plan, and technical direction.
Technical Leader / Engineering Manager / Solution Designer
Andrei Mîndru
I design software and AI solutions around the real shape of a problem: the people, constraints, risks, systems, and outcomes that make each need different.
Current focus
roleTechnical Leader & Engineering Manager
modehands-on leadership
focussolutions tailored to specific needs
signalenterprise AI, modernization, delivery
Profile
A technical leader who still thinks like a builder.
My work sits between engineering depth and delivery leadership. I help teams turn ambiguous business needs into clear architecture, practical delivery paths, and systems that people can actually use. The common thread is not one framework or one domain, but designing the right solution for the context in front of us.
Capabilities
Where I usually create leverage.
AI workflows and knowledge systems
Designing assistant-like experiences, agent workflows, secure knowledge access, and internal adoption paths.
Technical leadership
Coordinating multiple teams while keeping architecture, delivery, and product outcomes aligned.
Modernization
Moving legacy systems toward maintainable, usable, and future-ready software without losing operational continuity.
Product-minded delivery
Balancing engineering quality with business constraints, user experience, and adoption.
Developer growth
Mentoring engineers and teaching software fundamentals with a practical, production-oriented lens.
Experience
A career built from implementation into leadership.
1
Yopeso
Remote / Full-time
- Technical Leader & Engineering Manager, Jul 2024 - Present
- Senior Full Stack Engineer & Team Leader, Jul 2022 - Jul 2024
- Full Stack Engineer, Jan 2021 - Jul 2022
Leading architecture and delivery for tailored AI and product systems, coordinating implementation across teams, and guiding modernization and quality practices.
2
Software Development Academy
Trainer / Contract
- Trainer, Sep 2020 - Present
Teaching software engineering fundamentals and practical web development to people building their path into the industry.
3
Vision-Systems S.R.L.
Brasov / Product and delivery
- Full Stack Developer / Team Leader / Product Owner / Software Architect, Feb 2018 - Apr 2020
Designed and delivered warehouse and factory management systems, combining architecture, client delivery, team leadership, and product ownership.
4
Stabiplan Romania
Brasov / Early engineering
- Junior Software Engineer, Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Started professionally by building engineering software extensions for specialized design workflows.
Selected work
Representative problems I have helped turn into working systems.
Enterprise AI assistant platform
Led the architecture, design, and delivery of a bespoke AI assistant solution for a large financial technology organization.
Coordinated multiple engineering workstreams and defined the structure for agent workflows, secure knowledge access, memory, learning mechanisms, and internal system integrations.
Established a foundation for organization-wide AI adoption, knowledge discovery, productivity support, and workflow automation.
Online brand authorization system
Helped build and modernize a complex authorization platform connecting retailers and vendors around product trust and compliance.
Contributed hands-on while leading delivery, modernization, migration planning, and quality improvements.
Supported a long-running product through major technical transitions while keeping delivery moving.
Warehouse management platform
Worked on a logistics system covering the path from order placement through inventory allocation, warehouse operations, shipping, and delivery.
Maintained and evolved a complex operational platform while supporting modernization work.
Improved the maintainability of a business-critical workflow system.
Factory management systems
Designed and delivered systems for factory structure, inspections, reporting, reminders, and production quality tracking.
Led architecture, implementation, deployment, and user training for industrial workflows.
Helped digitize factory processes and make operational data easier to track and act on.
Reusable application foundation
Created a personal foundation for configurable web applications with user management, security, and long-term maintainability in mind.
Designed the base architecture to accelerate future personal and freelance projects.
Built a reusable starting point for custom software solutions.
AI-assisted fire risk prevention
Built a hackathon-winning product concept for wildfire risk prediction using historical patterns and environmental data.
Contributed to the prediction model and user experience under a 24-hour delivery constraint.
Won 1st place at HackaMOL 2017.
Education & proof
Formal grounding, certifications, and competitive results.
Education
Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Master's degree, 2020 - 2022, grade 10/10
Transilvania University of Brasov, Information Technology, 2016 - 2020, grade 10/10
Liceul Ion Kalinderu, Mathematics and Informatics, 2012 - 2016
Certifications
Microsoft AI-900: Azure AI Fundamentals
Oracle Database Design and Programming
Google Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
Certified trainer
Awards
1st place, HackaMOL 2017
1st place, SCSS 2020
2nd place, SSET 2022
Contact
If the problem is unusual, that is usually where the work gets interesting.
For collaborations, leadership roles, product architecture, or AI solution design, the cleanest first step is a direct conversation.
Brasov, Romania / Remote