Jul 2025 – Dec 2025 · 5 mos

• I offer fractional CTO services to early-stage startups and legacy companies in need of modernization. I offer my services to:
• 1. Organizations developing their AI strategy, including selection of LLM models (open-source or commercial), evaluation of agentic AI frameworks, and design of AI-driven features such as Human-in-the-Loop (HITL), safety guardrails, orchestration workflows, and retrieval systems.
• 2. Early-stage startups, non-technical founders, and “vibe-coding” enthusiasts evolve their MVPs into scalable products by leveraging either Azure Cloud and Azure AI Foundry services or AWS and Amazon Bedrock.
• 3. Legacy companies that need to modernize their applications through lift-and-shift, replatforming, or full redesigns using Azure or AWS PaaS offerings.
• 4. Companies needing interim leadership during transitions. I evaluate technology stacks in M&A contexts to reduce risk, and guide teams in scaling MVPs into production-ready platforms.
• Most projects begin with a 2-week assessment: one week to review your current stack, one week to deliver an executive summary with key insights and next steps. Free 1-hour consultation available!
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Oct 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

• ✅ Founded and scaled codeguppy.com, a coding platform adopted by K–12 classrooms, high schools, and online learning environments worldwide.
• ✅ Built as a scalable SaaS solution on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• ✅ Happy to demo to CS teachers, librarians and coding club educators!
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Sep 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo · Hollywood, Florida, United States

• ✅ Owned the Technical Vision and Architecture for STARLIMS’ core platform, aligning strategy with product and business goals.
• ✅ Directed architecture strategy across 300+ engineers — aligning roadmap with business goals.
• ✅ Drove cross-functional adoption of the STARLIMS Platform to accelerate time-to-value and secure multimillion-dollar Fortune 500 contracts.
• ✅ Cut costs 50% by leading vendor evaluation and transitioning the analytics stack to a new strategic partner, while improving performance.
• ✅ Embedded secure-by-design principles and OWASP Top 10 controls into CI/CD workflows and coordinated regular penetration testing.
• ✅ Defined STARLIMS’ AI strategy to leverage Azure AI and LLM/RAG.
• ✅ Provided technical leadership during the vendor evaluation, selection, and adoption new platforms.
• ✅ Influenced multimillion-dollar enterprise deals, acting as technology and security SME and aligning STARLIMS platform architecture with sales, marketing, and pre-sales to win Fortune 500 clients.

Jan 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

• ✅ Led STARLIMS’ third-generation digital transformation strategy across LIMS, ELN, and SDMS, designing an Enterprise Laboratory solution using event-driven microservices architecture (React, .NET / C#, Azure / AWS PaaS) that enabled 10x scalability.
• ✅ Influenced executive stakeholders (C-suite level) by presenting architecture strategies, and trade-offs
• ✅ Built the business case for corporate funding, highlighting shortcomings of the legacy platform, and demonstrating the need for a new NextGen solution.
• ✅ Led team to develop the NextGen MVP and TCO to secure corporate funding, balancing engineering capacity, vendor spend, and infrastructure costs.
• ✅ Standardized project governance practices (execution metrics, milestone tracking, risk management)

Jun 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

• ✅ Oversaw architecture, technology choices, and delivery across the entire STARLIMS technology platform, covering LIMS, SDMS, Mobility, and Advanced Analytics. Guided product teams on .NET/C#, React, Docker, cloud patterns, and modern CI/CD pipelines.
• ✅ Led and scaled four engineering teams (35+ FTEs and contractors) to deliver releases on time and with high quality, balancing innovation with business commitments.
• ✅ Influenced C-suite leadership to build an AI-powered UI modernization tool that proved capable of reducing project costs by ~$7.2M over two years and ~$200M over a decade across 500+ services projects.
• ✅ Adopted an agile SDLC for medical device software (healthcare regulated industry), ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and alignment with business strategy.
• ✅ Defined multi-year platform vision and strategy, partnering with product and executive leadership
• ✅ Mentored and developed engineering leaders and senior ICs, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and career growth.
• ✅ Drove platform modernization initiatives (e.g., cloud migration, API strategy, enterprise integrations)
• ✅ Introduced agile-at-scale practices and modern CI/CD pipelines with automated unit testing.
• ✅ Oversaw system security, compliance, and reliability standards across product lines
• ✅ Monitored delivery performance and KPIs

Mar 2010 – Jun 2018 · 8 yrs 3 mos

• ✅ Ensured LIMS and ELN development adhered to regulatory requirements (e.g. ISO 13485 standard), as STARLIMS was registered as a medical device under Abbott’s global quality systems. Led initiatives to improve accessibility compliance (Section 508C), to meet customer and regulatory expectations.
• ✅ Designed and launched complementary products, including Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) modules and high-performance ASTM communication drivers.
• ✅ Introduced Agile at scale and implemented hybrid Scrum/Kanban models, reducing release cycles to two weeks and partnered with Microsoft to integrate emerging technologies and maintain competitive product positioning.

Apr 2003 – Feb 2010 · 6 yrs 10 mos · Hollywood

• ✅ Worked with executive management to define the architectural traits of STARLIMS v10 system and modernization strategy from the client-server architecture of STARLIMS v9 to web-based architecture of STARLIMS v10
• ✅ Designed the XFD (XML Form Definition) a low-code RIA runtime framework that enabled rich UI experiences before HTML5/XAML go get wide adoption. See Wikipedia info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface_markup_language#XFD
• ✅ Designed and led the development of key components of STARLIMS v10 Technology Platform, including XFD Technology, Web Services, ISAPI Module, and ELN.
• ✅ Modernized the STARLIMS Scripting Language (SSL), introducing structured & OOP programming and a .NET MSIL compiler for customer migration.
• ✅ Created ASTM E1381-91 low-level driver for seamless instrument-to-LIS connectivity.

Jan 1997 – Jan 2003 · 6 yrs

• ✅ I founded and developed PowerTests (https://powertests.net), an EdTech software platform for student assessment used by universities and other educational institutions. The product was successfully commercialized and adopted by multiple institutions across Romania. Version 1 launched as a desktop application, and Version 2 evolved into a modern web-based platform built with advanced DHTML and early AJAX-style technologies.
• ✅ Invented the XML Bubbles Protocol ( https://github.com/mveteanu/XMLBubbles ), enabling efficient real-time ASP web communication.
• ✅ Authored and published technical articles on Windows, Delphi, and Web tech in major industry publications (see https://www.linkedin.com/posts/mveteanu_20-years-ago-i-was-regularly-publishing-activity-7361161316134178816-NFuB).

Jan 1991 – Dec 1996 · 5 yrs 11 mos

• ✅ Founded VMASOFT as solopreneur, developing commercial-quality shareware software.
• ✅ Virus Researcher - Conducted analytical studies of boot, .exe, and polymorphic computer viruses, including disassembly and behavioral analysis for academic and security-focused research ( some artifacts on my repo https://github.com/mveteanu/Virus/ )