Andrei Susu
Senior Technical Product Manager for AI-Powered Financial Infrastructure
- Location
- Romania - Workign on global remote environments
- andrei@kiba.software
- Telegram
- @AndreiKiba
- andrei-susu
- GitHub
- KibaSoftware
Summary
I build and scale AI-powered financial infrastructure where execution, trust, and technical clarity matter.
I build and scale AI-powered financial infrastructure products where execution, trust, and technical clarity are the main constraints. My background combines product leadership and software engineering across fintech, blockchain systems, trading data, wallets, developer platforms, and high-reliability environments. I focus on turning ambiguous technical and financial domains into structured, production-ready systems with measurable adoption and business outcomes.
What I build
Production systems with clear operating models.
AI-driven market analytics and decision systems
Trading and on-chain data products
Tokenization frameworks, wallets, and financial infrastructure
Product operating models for complex technical teams
Developer onboarding, documentation, and ecosystem growth systems
Core expertise
A product and systems matrix for AI, FinTech, and infrastructure-heavy domains.
Timeline
Career trajectory across product leadership and software engineering.
Founding Manager - AI Market Analytics
The Goblin Institute
2025 - Current
- AI Forecasting: Designed and shipped ML forecasting models using macroeconomic data, improving predictive accuracy from 55% to 72%+.
- LLM Integration: Prototyped LLM layers to translate dense statistical data into clear, user-facing intelligence while preserving uncertainty boundaries.
Head of Onboarding & Documentation
Chromia Blockchain
2023 - 2025
- Developer Experience: Slashed developer onboarding friction by 30% by engineering entirely new documentation architectures and developer flows.
- Traffic Growth: Doubled documentation-driven web traffic within 9 months through targeted SEO and product-led content execution.
- Ecosystem Expansion: Led high-impact partner integrations with Binance, MEXC, and SafePal to scale platform adoption paths.
Head of Product - Tokenization & Ecosystem Protocol
Chromia Blockchain
2023 - 2025
- Product Delivery: Successfully rebuilt and launched a stalled protocol (inactive for 4 years), reaching production readiness within 12 months.
- Commercial Growth: Contributed to 40% YoY growth and reduced production costs by 25% through data-driven lifecycle optimization.
- Process Frameworks: Introduced Lean Scaling and Agile delivery practices to stabilize roadmap execution across complex protocol tracks.
Technical Product Manager
Æternity Blockchain
2022 - 2023
- Rapid Delivery: Implemented Agile delivery frameworks to rescue a stalled explorer and DeFi protocol, shipping the MVP in under 6 months.
- C-Suite Advisory: Partnered directly with C-level stakeholders on product positioning, technical tradeoffs, and launch readiness sequences.
Product Management Consultant
Lydian World / G999
2020 - 2022
- 0→1 Launches: Directed end-to-end execution and launch of 3 production products: mobile/hardware wallets, messaging apps, and DeFi platforms.
- Product-Led Scale: Supported community growth to 100,000+ users via optimized release schedules and targeted activation campaigns.
Senior Software Engineer
ASML
2016 - 2020
- Infrastructure Optimization: Optimized critical SQL database infrastructure by ~80%, vastly improving data performance and system uptime.
- Data Systems: Designed complex data ingestion and diagnostic software used globally by tech titans including Intel, Samsung, and TSMC.
Software Developer
SC SELIR SRL (Sella Bank Group)
2014 - 2016
- Transactional Integrity: Built secure, compliant payment accounting and POS management microservices within strictly regulated environments.
- Database Design: Optimized Oracle PL/SQL architectures and managed internal code quality assurance for entry-level developers.
Education
Education and certifications
- BSc in Computer Science & Information Technology - Dunarea de Jos University, Romania, 2012-2016
- Google AI Professional Certification
- Google Project Management Certification
- Harvard VPAL FinTech Online Courses
Principles
Operating principles
- Execution beats abstraction.
- AI products must communicate uncertainty, not hide it.
- Complex systems need simple user-facing narratives.
- Product strategy should survive contact with engineering reality.
- Metrics matter when tied to system behavior.
- Developer experience is part of product growth.