Mircea Pasoi
Head of Engineering @ Brain Co.
San Francisco, California
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Min Investment:
$5,000.00Max Investment:
$25,000.00Target Investment:
$10,000.00
Skills
Education
- Uo
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Work Experience
2024
Co-founder & Head of Engineering
2024
2023 - 2024
Co-founder & CTO (acquired)
2023 - 2024
2021 - 2023
Head of Engineering
2021 - 2023
• Built out a remote-first engineering organization from ~15 engineers to 40+ across iOS, Android, Web, Backend, Discovery/ML, Platform and Infrastructure • Mentored and developed multiple engineering managers and staff+ engineering talent • Worked closely with Product, Design, and Data to align on strategy and execute on roadmaps in a fast-paced environment • Guided the technical roadmap for the company with a focus on velocity, experimentation and scalability
2021 - 2021
Angel Track
2021 - 2021
Member of First Round's 9th Angel Track Cohort —a masterclass and community for emerging angel investors.
2020 - 2021
Head of Growth Engineering
2020 - 2021
Novi is a new digital wallet for the Diem (p.k.a. Libra) payment system
2018 - 2020
Head of Identity Engineering
2019 - 2020
• Merged with Internal Tools team and reorganized into a 20+ person full-stack org (mobile, web, backend) • Hired 2 EMs and promoted 1 EM internally • Drove Security Keys feature that improved security for billions of dollars of assets • Led engineering strategy for unified onboarding across products (Coinbase, Coinbase Pro) and across web & mobile (using React & React Native)
Engineering Manager, Identity
2018 - 2019
• Started and grew the Identity team from 1 person. Personally recruited and referred multiple Staff+ engineers • Drove Onboarding initiatives that added +$40M additional revenue and +500K additional users • Drove Decentralized Identity research (ERC725 prototype: https://github.com/mirceapasoi/erc725-735), team discovery, and acquisition integration (see Techcrunch article)
2015 - 2018
Co-Founder & CEO (acquired)
2015 - 2018
Memo.AI was an AI chatbot that made it quick and easy to save and find code snippets, meeting notes, links, Slack messages, or other short work notes – right inside Slack or on the web. Raised a Seed round of $2M. Built the team to 7 full-time employees and a couple contractors. Led engineering and product. Led acquisition conversations. Eventually, the engineering team was acqui-hired by Coinbase.
2012 - 2014
Senior Engineering Manager
2014 - 2014
Managed an organization of 30+ engineers, including managing 3 other managers (Notifications, Tweet Anatomy, Profiles)
Engineering Manager
2012 - 2014
• Managed multiple Growth teams (Email, Notifications, Virality) focused on retention and resurrection • Sourced & recruited 20+ engineers from personal network
Senior Software Engineer
2012 - 2012
• Summify was acquired by Twitter and repurposed as Twitter Email Digest, which added 30M MAU in 2012-2013 (directly attributed to Email Digest) • Tech Lead in charge of Summify integration
2010 - 2012
Co-founder (acquired)
2010 - 2012
Summify creates a beautiful daily summary of the most relevant news from your social networks, and delivers it to you by email, web or mobile. Raised money from Accel Partners, Stewart Butterfield and other prominent angel investors. Acquired by Twitter.
2009 - 2010
Co-Founder
2009 - 2010
Balaur.ro was one of the leading search engines for the Romanian job market, innovating in terms of technology and user experience.