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Product Leadership Profile

Andrei Susu

Senior Product Leader across AI, FinTech and Enterprise Software

Location
Romania — working remotely with global teams
Telegram
@AndreiKiba
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Positioning

I turn complex technologies into products people can understand, adopt, and scale.

My experience combines more than six years in product leadership with six years in software engineering. Across AI analytics, FinTech, digital assets, developer platforms, and enterprise software, I help teams turn ambiguous problems into clear product decisions, focused delivery, and measurable outcomes. My engineering background helps me work credibly across technical constraints while keeping customer value, operating reality, and business priorities in view.

Where I add value

Helping teams make difficult products easier to decide, deliver, and adopt.

Clarify product direction when the customer problem, market context, or delivery path remains ambiguous.

Recover stalled initiatives and create a focused path to launch.

Reduce customer and developer friction so adoption can improve.

Balance product ambition, technical trade-offs, and operating constraints.

Experience

A chronological view of the work behind these outcomes.

Founding Product Manager

The Goblin Institute

Jun 2025 – May 2026

  • Led a grant-funded pilot applying machine learning and generative AI to market analysis across equities, indices, and digital assets.
  • Defined the target-user problem, product scope, roadmap, and evaluation framework from initial research through a working prototype.
  • Designed user-facing workflows that translated statistical and market-structure data into accessible explanations.
  • Established success criteria covering reliability, clarity, and usefulness.

Head of Product

Chromia Blockchain

Jan 2023 – Jun 2025

  • Led the full product lifecycle for the tokenization ecosystem and rebuilt a previously stalled core protocol within 12 months.
  • Contributed to 40% year-over-year growth across user adoption and transaction activity.
  • Owned product requirements, stakeholder alignment, backlog prioritization, and go-to-market coordination for ecosystem launches and strategic integrations.
  • Reduced product-development and operating costs by 25% through competitor analysis and a strategic change in product direction.
  • Reduced onboarding completion time by more than 30% across customer and developer workflows.

Product Manager

Æternity Blockchain

Jun 2022 – Jan 2023

  • Took ownership of a block explorer and stablecoin initiative delayed for more than one year.
  • Restructured the scope, requirements, and delivery plan.
  • Coordinated engineering and senior stakeholders to launch an MVP in under six months.
  • Clarified the product’s direction and positioning.

Product Manager

Lydian.World / G999

Jul 2020 – Jun 2022

  • Led zero-to-one development and launch of three products spanning mobile and hardware wallets, on-chain messaging, and a gamified financial platform.
  • Coordinated engineering, design, marketing, and operations from product definition through international launches in the UAE.
  • Contributed to products serving a combined registered-user base reported at more than 100,000.

Senior Software Engineer

ASML

Sep 2016 – Jul 2020

  • Improved critical database ingestion and query performance by approximately 80% for semiconductor manufacturing systems.
  • Designed data-ingestion and diagnostic software deployed in production environments by Intel, Samsung, and TSMC.

Software Engineer

Sella Bank Group

Aug 2014 – Sep 2016

  • Built and maintained payment-accounting and point-of-sale services within a regulated financial environment.
  • Improved Oracle PL/SQL performance and supported code-quality processes for transaction-critical systems.

Background

Education and credentials

BSc in Computer Science & Information Technology

Dunarea de Jos University, Romania

  • Harvard University VPAL FinTech Specialization
  • Google AI Professional
  • Google Project Management

Selected project

Gleipnir — Agentic AI Guardrails Plugin

Approach

Operating principles

  • Start with the problem and the decision that needs to be made.
  • Make complexity understandable without hiding uncertainty.
  • Keep strategy grounded in delivery and operating reality.
  • Use customer and system signals to improve what is released.
  • Treat customer and developer experience as part of product growth.