Summary
Catalin Tiseanu is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer (IC7) based in San Francisco, currently Coinbase’s first ML engineer and the technical lead for a 40+ person team shaping production ML across the company. He blends a deep foundation in algorithms and data structures with hands-on ML leadership, delivering double-digit increases in revenue and engagement through models in the Feed, Growth & Notifications, and spend-limits domains, and building Auto-ML-style blocks for tabular, sequence, and text data using Transformers. He has steered long-term technical direction, interview processes, and knowledge-sharing initiatives, and helped formalize a Responsible AI framework adopted for new models. His work also spans early web3 use cases and a history of founding and shaping ML-driven products, including Memo.ai (acquired by Coinbase) and prior roles at Alien Labs and Bitdefender. A decorated problem-solver, he has won TopCoder Open Marathon 2021 and placed at Google Code Jam, with research credits in string algorithms and strand detection. He holds a Research Master from the University of Maryland and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Bucharest, underscoring a strong academic foundation paired with production-ready engineering.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelor, Computer Science, Top 3% of the graduating class, Bachelor, Computer Science, Top 3% of the graduating class at Universitatea din București
Masters, Computer Science, Graduated first in class, Masters, Computer Science, Graduated first in class at University of Bucharest
English, Romanian, German, Spanish