Mircea-Bogdan Pașoi

Mircea-Bogdan Pasoi is a Romanian-born software engineer, engineering leader and entrepreneur. He won a silver medal at IOI 2005 and a gold medal at IOI 2006 representing Romania, was an ICPC World Finals finalist (2007) and a TopCoder Collegiate Challenge finalist. He co-founded infoarena.ro (2004) and the job search engine balaur.ro, moved to Vancouver in 2010, and co-founded Summify, which Twitter acquired in 2012. He then led engineering at Twitter, Coinbase (Head of Identity Engineering) and Novi (Head of Growth Engineering) and headed engineering at Clubhouse, before co-founding Memo AI (acquired by Coinbase) and Serene AI (acquired by Brain Co.), where he is now Head of Engineering. He is also an active angel investor and a US citizen.

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• Co-founded Summify, acquired by Twitter in Jan 2012 and repurposed as Twitter Email Digest, credited with adding 30M MAU in 2012-2013 - the exit that moved him from Vancouver founder to Twitter employee.Jan 19, 2012
• Won IOI gold medal (rank 7) in 2006 and silver (rank 47) in 2005, both for Romania - the credential the brief centers on.Jan 1, 2006
• Co-founded Serene AI (2023-2024), acquired by Brain Co., where he is now Head of Engineering - a fourth consecutive founder-to-acquirer transition, a consistent exit-driven pattern.Jan 1, 2024
• At Coinbase started the Identity team and grew it from 1 engineer to a 20+ full-stack org, shipping features he credits with +$40M revenue and +500K users.Jan 1, 2020
• Co-founded Memo AI (2015-2018), acquired by Coinbase, which brought him into Coinbase as Head of Identity Engineering, tying his founder and operator phases together.Jan 1, 2018
• Angel invests across AI (Replit, Anduril, Cohere, Observe.AI), crypto (Farcaster, Sardine, Coherent), investing platforms (AngelList, WeFunder), fintech, health and climate - a broad, thesis-light portfolio.Jan 1, 2024
• Scaled Clubhouse engineering from ~15 to 40+ across seven disciplines (2021-2023), spanning the app's pandemic boom and contraction.Jan 1, 2023
• Born 23 July 1987 in Romania; moved to Vancouver in 2010 and later became a US citizen, an emigration-to-US trajectory.Jul 23, 1987
• Listed on the team page of Irregular Expressions (IrregEx), a venture firm founded by Jean Sini, suggesting a role beyond pure angel investing.Jan 1, 2024
• Blogs at mirceap.com/blog, including 'How I Discovered I Have Autism' (Oct 2023) and 'Life after programming competitions' (2012), the latter a widely-cited guide for ex-olympians.Oct 21, 2023
• Ran Twitter's Email Digest org of 30+ engineers after the Summify acquisition (2012-2014), recruiting 20+ engineers from his own network - his network is a hiring pipeline.Jan 1, 2014
• Co-founded infoarena.ro (2004), the Romanian competitive-programming community, with two friends; it became the country's hub for olympiad training, showing early community-building alongside competition.Jan 1, 2004