Adrian I.
Strategic Technology Leadership & Digital/AI Transformation
Experience
Jan 2025 - Present
1 yearStrategic Technology Leadership & Digital/AI Transformation
Adrian Ion Consulting
- VCs, investors & CEOs: build or scale technology development in your (portfolio) company
- CTOs & senior technology leaders: experienced sounding board
- Traditional industries: increase value or optimize operations by further digitalization and AI
- Young technical leaders: build your leadership skills, technology-business interplay judgment, and strategic thinking, while under pressure to deliver.
Jan 2024 - Dec 2025
2 yearsCTO
Hydrogrid
- Joined as CTO after company successful Series A (engineering headcount 17)
- Consistently delivered all priority 1 features on time starting 1st quarter (significantly slipping before)
- Coordinated and delivered the technical part of a 3 m€ accepted R&D grant
- Retargeted the engineering skill-development framework towards tangible employee growth
- Focus on efficiency driven engineering culture (attention to ownership, processes, market-feedback)
- Representing Hydrogrid technology in media and to the board
- Refining company IT infrastructure towards scalability (cloud solutions, SSO, collaboration)
Jan 2020 - Dec 2024
5 yearsCTO
Partium
- Chosen as global CTO after the merger of Humai, Slyce, and Catchoom
- Integrated the teams in AT, ES, and USA, with 100% retention and high productivity (headcount 15)
- Drove the technology stream for the licensing and integration of Partium into IBM Maximo Mobile
- Hot swapped the entire recognition technology for The Home Depot; 75% COGS reduction
- Drove DevOps, CI/CD, and security-aware culture; 60× production deployments and fewer issues
- Contributed to company strategy towards investment (series A) and a future exit
- Represented Partium to potential investors and owned engineering due diligence
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
5 yearsCTO
Humai Technologies
- Grew the Bosch account to multiple business units and over 60% of Humai’s revenue
- Transformed the spare part recognition business from services to product
- Reorganized for product focus, with R&D, Eng., Ops & IT, and Professional Services (headcount 35)
- On an aggressive schedule, rolled out Partium for Deutsche Bahn, the largest European account
- Represented Humai to potential investors and owned technical due diligence
- Successful merger of Humai with U.S. based Slyce and Spain-based Catchoom
Jan 2014 - Dec 2016
3 yearsHead of Recognition Technology | Project Manager | Solution Architect
- On an aggressive schedule, built the visual recognition solution for the company’s largest account (Bosch Power Tools), with a world-wide rollout in over 100 country-language combinations
- Generated ~half of the company’s revenue with ~25% of the workforce (headcount 5)
- Project management and customer success management of key accounts
- Laid the foundation of what became the Partium professional spare-part search product
Jan 2012 - Dec 2014
3 yearsVienna, Austria
Senior Software Engineer IRM Core & Steering Committee, OpenLink Labs
Openlink Financial
- Selected by the global CTO to a team of 8, laid out the footprints of OpenLink Labs, OpenLink's R&D initiative; core responsibility: collaboration with academia
- Led a major upgrade (+12 years) to the tech stack and the build system of the IRM product core
Jan 2004 - Dec 2012
9 yearsAustria
Research Assistant → PostDoc Researcher, AI / Computer Vision & Machine Learning
Vienna University of Technology; University of Bonn; IST Austria
- Addressed fundamental problems in computer vision, with and without machine learning and statistics
- Successfully acquired and coordinated research grants and projects
- Publication and reviewing in world-top conferences and journals
- Presentations to audiences ranging from 1 to > 1000 headcount
- Bachelor and Master thesis supervision; teaching (seminars, lab exercises, courses)
Jan 1998 - Dec 2004
7 yearsTimișoara, Romania
Senior Software Engineer
NetObjects Romania → CD Nelson Technology Group → Sedona
- Multiple senior/software engineer roles in teams ranging 2–8 developers
- Developed first release of the image processing components in NetObjects Fusion (B2C, total $3.5 m in 2005)
- Delivered several major releases of the proprietary CD Nelson CAD/CAM/CNC suite, from stepper-motor control to CAD editor, numeric processing, kernel mode processes, real-time (B2B)
Summary
Demonstrated success in high-speed, high-growth environments with large B2B customers in the EU and US. Iterative/MVP-driven approaches. Define goals, strategies, and KPIs. Nurture highly engaged teams and individuals. Strong background in software engineering and AI.
Languages
Romanian
NativeGerman
AdvancedEnglish
AdvancedEducation
Oct 2004 - Jun 2009
Vienna University of Technology
Doctorate, Computer Science/AI, with distinction · Computer Science/AI · Vienna, Austria
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