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Experience, accomplishments and credentials across engineering and product.

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Andrei Susu

Senior Product Manager

Based in Romania · Open to remote opportunities across EMEA and collaboration with US-based global teams.

andrei@kiba.softwarekiba.softwarelinkedin.com/in/andrei-susu

Professional summary

I bring 12+ years of experience across software engineering and product management, including 6+ years in product roles. As Head of Product at Chromia, I owned end-to-end release of the infrastructure and payment ecosystem across four teams comprising 20+ people. My engineering background helps me connect customer needs, technical constraints, and business priorities.

Core expertise

Product Strategy · Customer Discovery · Roadmapping · Prioritization · Product Analytics · OKRs/KPIs · Experimentation · Go-to-Market · Cross-Functional Leadership

Open source

  • Gleipnir — Agentic AI Guardrails Plugin · github.com/KibaSoftware/Gleipnir
  • Celebtir.com — Onchain DeFi Market Intelligence · github.com/KibaSoftware/celebtir

Experience

Applied Product Manager · The Goblin Institute — Quant Trading Support

Jun 2025 – Present

  • Secured grant funding and led development of an AI/ML market-intelligence platform, now live and used by private trading clients.
  • Defined product requirements spanning equities, indices, digital assets, and on-chain fraud analysis, including forecasting and classification objectives.
  • Led the ML development lifecycle, covering data preparation, feature and target definition, model training, validation, and benchmarking against historical market data.

Head of Product · Chromia Blockchain

Jan 2023 – Jun 2025

  • Owned product strategy, roadmap, and budget for the tokenization ecosystem, leading four teams comprising more than 20 people while mentoring an adjacent team.
  • Rebuilt and launched a core protocol within 12 months, recovering an initiative that had been stalled for four years.
  • Reduced product development and operating costs by 25% by simplifying the product roadmap, eliminating low-value scope, and reallocating resources toward higher-impact priorities.
  • Reduced onboarding completion time by more than 30% across customer and developer workflows.
  • Led custody and bridging product initiatives for strategic partners.

Product Manager · Aeternity Blockchain

Jun 2022 – Jan 2023

  • Restructured scope, requirements, and delivery plans for block explorer and liquidity borrowing protocol initiatives delayed for more than a year.
  • Led development of the initial AE Liquidity Pool and LP points reward system, which formed the basis for Superhero DEX.
  • Coordinated engineering teams and senior stakeholders to deliver an MVP in under six months.

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 exceeding 200,000.

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 the infrastructure for electronic payments within the Sella Bank ecosystem.
  • Optimized the Oracle PL/SQL storage infrastructure to support a significant expansion in customer base.

Skills

Product:
Product Strategy, Customer Discovery, User Research, Roadmapping, Product Analytics, Experimentation, Go-to-Market
Business:
Customer Insights, Competitive Analysis, Business Cases, Partnerships, Cross-Functional Leadership
Domains:
AI-Enabled Products, Machine Learning, Generative AI, LLMs, FinTech, Enterprise Software, Developer Platforms, Blockchain
Tools:
Jira, Linear, Figma, Google Analytics, SQL

Education

BSc in Computer Science & Information Technology — Dunarea de Jos University, Romania

Certifications

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