# Resume (LLM-Optimized)

## Candidate

- full_name: Raul Popadineți
- headline: Staff/Senior Software Engineer and Product-Minded Technical Lead
- location: Timișoara, Romania
- email: raulp@hey.com
- website: https://raulp.co
- github: https://github.com/raulpopadineti
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/raulpopadineti
- total_experience_years: 15+

## Target Roles

- Staff Software Engineer
- Senior Full-Stack Engineer
- Technical Lead

## Professional Summary

- 15+ years building and scaling web products with US companies.
- Experience across zero-to-revenue products and high-scale user-facing platforms.
- Combines hands-on engineering, systems thinking, product ownership, and people leadership.
- Most relevant recent track record: Gumroad (4 years) and Hubstaff (5 years), including team-lead ownership in both.

## Core Skills

- Product engineering and execution
- Technical leadership and team management
- Remote-first and asynchronous collaboration
- Pragmatic architecture and delivery
- Ruby on Rails
- Next.js
- React
- TypeScript
- PostgreSQL
- API design and integrations
- Automation tooling

## Impact Highlights

- company: Gumroad
- impact: Built Gumroad content editor powering 100% of GMV
- date_started: 2024-03
- type: Product platform

- company: Gumroad
- impact: Delivered Year in Review workflows for 50k+ creators
- type: Product feature

- company: Gumroad/Flexile
- impact: Built automated US tax filing workflows for thousands of contractors and investors
- type: Compliance and operations automation

- company: Hubstaff
- impact: Led 5 remote engineers across 5 time zones and owned team health/performance processes
- type: Engineering leadership

- company: BigWeld
- impact: Built and maintained Rails e-commerce platform with $500k+ ARR
- type: Revenue platform

## Experience

### Sunergos

- role: Solopreneur
- start_date: 2017
- end_date: present
- location: Remote
- responsibilities: Build and launch products around AI workflows, remote work, and local community needs.
- responsibilities: Own product discovery, engineering, and go-to-market execution.

### Gumroad

- role: Senior Software Engineer -> Project Lead (Flexile, final 6 months)
- start_date: 2021-03
- end_date: 2025
- location: Remote
- team_scope: Led 6-8 engineers as Project Lead.
- achievement: Built content editor now handling 100% of GMV since 2024-03.
- achievement: Shipped Year in Review workflows for 50k+ creators.
- achievement: Built automated US tax filing workflows for thousands of contractors and investors.

### Hubstaff

- role: Senior Software Engineer -> Team Lead
- start_date: 2015
- end_date: 2020-10
- location: Remote
- team_scope: Led 5 engineers across 5 time zones.
- achievement: Owned 1-on-1s, performance reviews, retrospectives, and CTO-facing velocity reporting.

### Codenapse

- role: Co-founder and Programmer
- start_date: 2012
- end_date: 2015
- location: Romania
- achievement: Built and delivered Ruby on Rails applications for US and EU clients.
- project: Whodini (2013-03 to 2015-12), mobile marketing-in-a-box product.

### BigWeld

- role: Rails Programmer
- start_date: 2011-03
- end_date: 2014-06
- location: Remote
- achievement: Built and maintained Ruby on Rails e-commerce platform generating $500k+ ARR.

### Eloquentix

- role: Technical Support
- start_date: 2010-07
- end_date: 2013-09
- achievement: Managed customer issue triage, troubleshooting, and day-to-day technical support.

## Selected Projects

- name: Git Digest
- url: https://gitdigest.ai/
- description: Automated code reports to help teams ship faster.
- category: AI workflows, codebase reporting, B2B SaaS

- name: OG Pilot
- url: https://ogpilot.com/
- description: Dynamic Open Graph image generation focused on growth.
- category: Design automation, growth tooling

- name: Calm Companies
- url: https://calmcompanies.club/
- description: Weekly curated job openings at companies with healthy work culture.
- category: Newsletter, jobs

- name: Squingo
- url: https://squingo.com/
- description: Event formats designed for competitive fun.
- category: Consumer product

- name: One-off Invoice
- url: https://oneoffinvoice.com/
- description: Streamlined invoicing for fast client work.
- category: Productivity tool

## Keywords

staff engineer, senior software engineer, technical lead, ruby on rails, react, next.js, typescript, postgresql, remote leadership, product engineering, gmv, startup, saas, automation, ai workflows