Mircea Pasoi
Founder of Istari Co.
San Francisco, California
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2023 - Current
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
Clubhouse is an internet company.
Angel Track
2021 - 2021
Member of First Round's 9th Angel Track Cohort —a masterclass and community for emerging angel investors.
First Round Angel Track is a community of operators and founders looking to develop their skills and identities as early-stage investors.
Head of Growth Engineering
2020 - 2021
Novi is a new digital wallet for the Diem (p.k.a. Libra) payment system
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)
Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups.
Co-Founder & CEO
2015 - 2018
Alien Labs built Memo, a note-taking app for technical teams that use Slack. Memo 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.
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
X is a social networking platform that allows its users to send and read microblogs.
Raised $12,869,191,511.00 from Greenlight Capital, Binance, Litani Ventures, Qatar Investment Authority, Qatar Holding, The Lawrence J. Ellison Revocable Trust, Fidelity, Alwaleed Bin Talal, Sequoia Capital and Vy Capital.
Co-Founder
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.
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.
Co-Founder & Vice-President
2004 - 2009
infoarena helps students learn computer science and train for programming contests. It is a community project supported by dozens of the very best Romanian olympic students today. Most of the members in our team were awarded international or national awards at computer science contests. We organize online programming contests, we write tutorials and articles about computer science. The website itself is an innovative piece of technology featuring an automated solution grader, wiki, social network, forum and blog. infoarena has a long history of dedication and activity: 23000+ users, 100+ online contests, an impressive archive with 1200+ automatically graded problems and content spanning over thousands of wiki pages. infoarena received sponsorships from high profile companies such as Adobe, Facebook, Google, Hostway, Oracle, Microsoft and also from local companies and institutions like Polytechnic University of Bucharest, iRealSoft, IP Devel, Totalsoft, Softwin.
Education
Bachelor
2006 - 2009