I currently live in London and build my second startup in the consumer space. I grew up in Romania and previously worked for many years in crypto.

Things I'm interested in:

• Live shopping. I'm an amateur Pop Mart collector and more recently started buying Pokemon cards. I enjoy shopping on Whatnot and decided to build something in an adjacent space.
• Voice AI. I optimize and run speech to speech pipelines. An example of what I've been playing with is here.
• Consumer apps. I'm mostly interested in building prosumer and consumer apps and marketplaces. The most ambitious thing I can think of is to build something for billions of people.
• Books. Some of my favorite reads are Poor Charlie's Almanack, The Beginning of Infinity and Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned. Reach out if you'd like to debate any of them.
• Distribution hacks. I infiltrated 40 student buildings and took notes about how and where to place ads and get users quickly for any app I build. It's surprisingly effective and as far as I know, no one else is doing this in London.
• Anime. Dr Stone's my favorite anime but you probably figured it out already :)

Side Projects

• gspot. CLI to lint AI generated code and set up rules for coding agents.
• Text inference server. A text inference server that can switch between TRTLLM and vLLM.
• ComfyUI extension for OpenRouter. An extension you can use in ComfyUI to call any OpenRouter model.

Past Projects

A few years ago I built RAI, a modified version of the DAI stablecoin. It used an on-chain proportional integral controller to stabilize itself. The project scaled to almost $400M in AUM at the peak tho it never got PMF.

I was also project lead at Astroport, a Cosmos based DEX. The project handled $1.7B in AUM at the peak and had more than 20K users.

Links

stefanionescu on GitHub; dr__stoney on Twitter; my YC cofounder matching profile is here